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Hey everyone, I'm a homebrewer but my wife has recently started to try to get into making kombucha. I know nothing about it and she just knows a little bit about it from her friend that told her how to do it and gave her the scoby(sp?) She was looking online for a place to ask some questions...

I was brewing a chocolate stout extract kit and started steeping my grains when I went into the refrigerator to take out my yeast to work on rehydrating it. It wasn't there. Looks like SWMBO might have mistaken it for flower food or something and threw it all away. All my homebrew shops...

I've done lots of searches and come up with differing opinions on adding pumpkin pie spice at bottling. Most people say to make a "spiced tea" in boiling water and then add the water a little at a time to the bottling bucket to achieve the desired taste. I plan on going this route, but my...

Are there any general guidelines regarding when it is necessary to re-pitch yeast at bottling time? I know the longer it sits in the secondary and the higher ABV the beer it is plays a factor. Is there any harm in pitching in half a packet of some neutral type yeast like S-05 mixed in with...

This may be a newbie question, but I've been searching and can't find an answer. The base to this questions is, does beer go bad after its been in the refrigerator and you remove it so it goes back to room temperature? The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to give some friends/family...

Hey everyone. I was planning on bottling my first batch tonight. It's an Irish Red Ale kit from Midwest. The FG is supposed to read 1.010-1.012 according to the directions, but it's currently at 1.017/1.018. I took a reading a few days ago and it was the same. The first thing I didn't do...