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I would like some advice as I plan on soon starting to ferment in kegs. Could anyone offer me advice or tips to doing it? Or maybe even advice on a setup for this. I would kinda of like to do this with as little as equipment as possible, i mostly decided to do this because of wanting to brew a...

Wasn't sure which part of the forum to put this on but I am a proud owner of a newly constructed kegerator and have two kegs that are able to fit in it now but I want advice give me reasons why and why i shouldn't ferment in a keg. Also is a temperature controller necessary for lagering.

Alright so I started midwest's honey bee ale around a week ago with their strain of wyeast the headwater ale yeast. I followed the recipe to a tee and made sure everything was sanitary and went to pour the yeast in and waited for about an hour. An hour later the fermentation took off the airlock...

As I grow closer to building my kegerator I'm super excited and was wondering if anybody has any advice for preparing for the kegerator build. Any recommendations on what to use to drill for the taps? Also what size drill bit or hole saw will I need? Thanks guys

I really am a stickler when it comes to sanitation when brewing but when bottling I have noticed what seems to be mold. I have noticed this in one of my other batches I wash the bottles really well and sanitize them in the dishwasher and still have this problem should this be a thing of concern...

I have been quite interested in trying to incorporate coffee into beer, and I think this would be a good kit to try this with. What do you guys think? Also if I were to do this how would you add the coffee any suggestions and how much in a 5 gallon batch.

Would cold crashing before bottling cause the beer to settle more and if I did that would it cause the beer to condition slower in the bottles?

I have a hydrometer and have take basic readings for where beers should be but haven't figured out the official gravity to the number can someone explain this to me

I'm currently doing an IPA it's in primary right now about one week in, I was considering just keeping it in primary the whole time because there is no dry hopping involved would this be a good idea?

I just bottled my first batch of beer and was wondering i was thinking that i saw somewhere that swirling the bottles during conditioning to help the settling yeast would help the process of carbonation. Is this true, also if so would this cause loss of carbonation and defeat the purpose?

Hello, I had a question I started an irish stout from a extract kit to be specific it was a brewers best kit. I started this brew on the 24th at around 10 pm. At about 20 hours i noticed the brew to star fermenting rapidly, this went on until about the 26th. Since the 26th I haven't seen any...

I am very excited next Wednesday I should be receiving my home brew kit, and with much anticipation I bought a beer ingredient kit today. I bought an ingredient kit for an Irish stout but would kind of like to make some modification to it to make it my own. You guys have any suggestions?