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Fellow brewers! I bottled a Fat tire clone 9days ago and ironically it came out as a flat tire. It is all bottled... Can I pop the tops and add sugar to each bottle? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Kind of time constrained but wanted to push one through this weekend. Can I mash today and brew tomorrow? Any concerns? Would I have to cool in the refridgerator? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Ok.. I'm new to this. I just found a priming calculator but a little too late. I primed a smoked porter with a cup of maple syrup. I just checked the calculator and it says 1/3 of a cup... Should I be worried about bottle bombs? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

Ok.. Can I drink a beer, dump the bottom into a diluted solution of DME and let the critters grow for a brew day next weekend? Sent from my iPad using Home Brew

I jumped into my first all grain without knowing very much.. I'm set up to fly sparse and what I did is run off all my mash water (recirculating first) then I fly sparged... Any idea what might the outcome be? Really weak beer? Watery?

I brewed a partial extract chocolate coffee stout. The OG cam in right at the targeted 1.072. FG, according to the recipe I used was set at between 1.018-1.020. It has been in the secondary and seems to have stalled out at 1.026... Should I re-pitch or just bottle?

I'm looking into recipes for a raspberry wheat Ale. Some only talk about putting the fruit in the secondary, some say half in the primary, half in the secondary and some have mentioned to add it after flame out when temp hits about 180... Any thoughts out there?

I brewed my second batch of beer.. Chocolate Coffee Stout ( gonna call it Sweet Jittery Buzz). Anyway, I had it in the primary for 9 days and transferred to my secondary. It's been in there for 7 days and It is still showing some week signs of fermentation (one little bubble every 30seconds or...

I was at my brother in laws fathers house yesterday for supper and he gave me a whole bunch of his old brewing equipment. With it he parted with a bunch of his really old nice bottles. Now her is the question, he stopped home brewing about 25years ago. I'm really curious if it's still good. Any...

Will be bottling my first batch tomorrow... Finally drank enough crafts to have enough bottles. I made the solution that cam in the kit during making the brew and stored it sealed. My guy at my lhms told that that is fine and would last no problem. I was just going to rinse my bottles in the...

None know of a reasonable ($$) way to label your beer bottles? Saw a couple of sites that wanted up to $1.25/label! A pounds a little crazy as that would become more expensive the the bottle with the beer in it!

To all my passionate brewers! I just finished brewing my first batch.. Kit from Brewers best and I've been reading about cold crashing. I don't understand. Wouldn't this happen after carb up once you put it in the fridge anyway?

Just brewed my first batch ever! Pretty cool! It was a Brewers Best Red Ale. I did this on Sunday night and my airlock started bubbling Monday PM. It continued through Tuesday night but this morning (Wenesday) it has already stopped. My local brew guy said that it should take about 7days and...

I recently brewed my first batch. It was Brewers Best Red Ale. At about 45 mins into the batch at boil, I added about a half gallon of water to my pot. It went through another "Heat Break". I did this because people terrified me about contamination so I figured if I added it during the boil, I...