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So I have been AG brewing for about 3 batches now with a 15-gallon keg set-up. I first did an AG batch with a 10-gallon igloo cooler and had no problem with any of the 3 batches not fermenting properly, but now when I am brewing with my new 15-gallon keg and burner set-up I am having a problem...

After a week of fermenting a 1.084 Jack Wookey Black Rye IPA I was wondering what my F.G. should be at that point?

So im doing a yeast starter for the first time- yay me lol; but on my software it calls for a 2800 ml starter, is the amount i boil 2800 ml and if so how much dme would i need about 2 1/2 cups?

What infection is this and will it be fine. I used abbey ale yeast from white labs.

So i am using brewsmith and it keeps telling me that i need to sparge with 1.9 gallons of water. My recipie is a 2.5 gallon batch with no top off water, and my boil off is 1.2 gallons per hour; so i wanted to end with 3.7 after my mash is done and fly sparging is done. Now my problem is that...

So I have been doing some searching on the forum and haven't come up with something conclusive. I want to be able to brew 7 gallons of 1.045 - 1.094 gravity beer. By my calculations to get 7 gallons of wort at a Gravity of 1.094 you would need 25 pounds of grain- roughly- using .5 gallons of...

I was wondering if anyone had ever used this before? I just tried to download it and I did it just wouldn't let me get any where cause it was password protted; I thought it was free am I missing something? Anyone else use this software? It looks cool and kinda my style but ian't use the free...

I brewed a batch and put it in the only fermenter I had around and it has a lot of head space in it, like a lot, and I was wondering if that has any effect on flavor- if it even comes out tasting good. I Let it sit unopened for the 3 weeks of fermentation.

I was wondering if any of you know where I can find a thermometer with a temperature display screen with a long enough cord, that I can place it out of my cool brewing bag, and if it has a strip or something I can tape to the fermenter?

Hi I was wondering im bottling a bigger batch than five gallons, and I used brewersfriend.com priming calculator and it says for a 6.2 gallon batch I would need 4.9 oz of corn sugar but would I still use the same amount of water for that batch? Also is corn sugar the same as dextrose? I might...

So I downloaded a free trial of beer smith and I had already done a beer yesterday and was loading it in; when I loaded it in the gravity came up 1.093 and when I entered it in to beertoad, and measured it, it came out right on point?

I was wondering once fermentation is over and you bottle, can you just put them in a moderately controlled climate and be good with it for the next 6 months.

So one of my question is can I use a 1.053 gravity beer yeast be used washed and used for a barley wine. And my second question is can i do an extract barely wine?

So I'm thinking of, when I get the money, of gettin a real rig for my brewing. What I'm wondering is if I get a brew rig with 2 10 gallon pots and a 15 gallon pot- for future big volume beer- can I also do a regular 5 gallon recipe?

I have a 7 gallon fermenter, I was wondering if it would fit in the cool brewing equipment. Does any one know if it would fit?

So I brewed today and when I went to do my hydrometer test and it was 1.094, after adding 3 gallons of RO (Reverse Osmosis) water. Now this is the second time this has happened when all my other readings before that one were right on; anybody know why this is happening. Its not the temperature...

Hello Gents, its been a little while since I have been on the site or making beer, but I have had the bug the last couple days- reading some brewing books and having a couple craft beers- so i'm reading to brew again and I got a mish mash of hops from my last couple batches. So what I was...

So i did an extract IPA yesterday and i used 7 pounds of malt extract for my recipe; according to brewer friends, with all my ingredients the O.G. was suppose to come out to 1.059. When tested the wort with the hydrometer it came out to 1.122. I used 7 gallons of water for a 5 gallon batch- like...

So i have been extract brewing for a few months and i was wondering if there were any malts i could use to get the color that the crystal 40- for example- gets. I keep getting beers to sweet and im thinking that it. Does anyone have any suggestions for crystal 20, 40, 60??

So we bottled a blonde ale and an IPA about a week and a half ago and one is carbed up, the blonde ale, which taste great and the other, the IPA, is not. Our IPA we dry hopped in a secondary fermenter after a week and then let it sit for 3 weeks; at 2 weeks it had a lot of acetelyhyde so thats...