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Read from How to Brew that plastic carboy secondaries can allow oxygen in thus are not good....but for now thats what I got. What's my best option? 1) Keep in primary 2) Use plastic carboy 3) Use plastic carboy and submerge as much as possible in water to minimize any oxygen intrusion...

Going to the nearest brew store soon (~2 hrs from here) and need some base malt to use up some specialty grains left over from other recipes. Here's what I got (1/2 pound each): Special B Carapils Aromatic Caramunich Biscuit What to make? Some British style Ale or something? I'm...

Mashed 3 lbs flaked wheat with 1 lb 6 row (I had some 6 row laying around and it has the high diastatic power) at 150 and batch sparged. Used an oz. of something for bittering for ~25 IBU's. When boil was 10 minutes from complete, put in 6 lbs Northern Brewer's Wheat LME. Threw in an oz. of...

Why does recirc on a HERMS system not cause problems with hot side oxidation? Seems to me that would be a perfect way of oxidizing your wort as much as possible.

I've found a Pale Ale I really like and they're not usually my style. I have several friends that are big pale ale fans so I want to brew some......but I think this is dang near impossible. It's a local brew with small distribution so I haven't found a clone. I'm extract BTW, but 2 row with...

I’ve brewed several batches of beer and would like to try a batch of mead as I find the concept interesting but I have a couple questions. 1) Can I simply boil some of the yeast sediment from a beer fermentation to use as yeast nutrients without any other additives and if so, how much? 2) I...

I'm trying to clone Diamond Bear's Pale Ale. I'm not a big Pale Ale fan, but I really like this particular one so I'm trying to clone it. Their website lists SG as 13.4 plato, which I found is 1.055 SG. They list ABV @ 6.2% so that would correspond with a FG of 1.008. That would be 85%...