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Unfortunately the only bottling bucket that I have on hand is 1.5 gallons so I was wondering how much priming sugar should be added to a bucket that size and then the beer will be racked on top of it of course. How much sugar and how much water would you use to boil the sugar in a bottling...

I’m going to be doing my first partial mash tomorrow and want to be sure that I have the method correct before I start. So from my understanding, you only put part of the water in the pot and bring it to about 170F so that the grains can settle at 150F and you sustain that temperature for 1...

I really need some help figuring out a solution to aerate my wort because brew day is tomorrow, and it has to be tomorrow because I’m brewing a pumpkin ale for Thanksgiving and it won’t be done in time if I wait any longer. I’ve never aerated a wort before, but I feel like I should now that I’ve...

Hey everyone, so I posted awhile ago about how I accidentally filled my carboy up too much since the wort came out really good and I didn't want to waste any. Well as a result of that, I had some overflow into the blowoff bucket and then I haven't seen the regular 2 chamber airlock bubble at all...

Hey everyone, so I found some mold in my mini fridge. I have been away from home for awhile, so it might've been there for a little while. Will this have any negative impact on the beer in the carboys? They both have airlocks that are filled with vodka on them.

Hey everyone, so I just finished brewing my second 3 gallon batch last night (I had to do it this way because I learned the hard way when I tried a 5 gallon carboy in my mini fridge and it wouldn't fit so I had to throw the whole wort away) But I'm wondering if I filled this carboy too full...

Hey everyone, so I just transferred my honey wheat ale that I made from my carboy into my bottling bucket, and I had no issues the whole time I was siphoning it until the end. At the end, I disconnected the tubing from the siphon to get the last of the beer in and some air got in and a medium...

Hey everyone, so I'm making a honey wheat ale from a recipe that I found on here. The recipe says to transfer to another carboy for secondary fermentation. I've never done that before and have always just done secondary in the same carboy, but I kinda want to do that this time because there is a...

Hey everyone, so I've been looking into getting a chest freezer to keep my carboy in for fermentation because last summer I used a swamp cooler and it was such a pain that I don't want to hassle with it again. I'm planning on getting a chest freezer so I won't have to deal with any of that, but...

Hey everyone, I currently have a brown ale that's been in fermentation almost a month longer than it should have been. I have been keeping it in a swamp cooler at the correct temperature, but then one day it accidentally got warmer because I was at work and forgot to change the frozen bottles...

Hey everyone, I'm still fairly new at brewing and figuring more things out each batch I make. When I was removing by blowoff tube today to replace with an s shaped airlock, I came across posts about most people using starsan or vodka in their airlocks. For all of the past batches I've made, I've...

Hey everyone, I was planning on brewing in the next couple days and I'm still trying to figure out how I'm gonna keep my wort cool in this hot summer weather. Where I live, it gets pretty hot and stays in the 80's and 90's every day during summer and then gets cooler in the evenings and nights...

Hey everyone, I have a new unopened packet of safbrew S-33 that I bought about a month ago and I was planning on using it on an upcoming batch. But, I have been storing it in it's original packing envelope in my room and the temperature in my room is in the high 80's to 90's every day and then...

This is only my 3rd brew and every time I never put it in ice or anything to immediately cool it. The first time it cooled on it's own and the second one I pitched not long after boil but that was with liquid yeast. All 3 batches tasted fine, but I never knew that you weren't supposed to pitch...

I'm preparing to brew a new batch from a recipe that I got and it says that you're supposed to do primary fermentation for a week, followed by 2 weeks of secondary, and 2 weeks in bottles. My problem is that I don't have a second carboy to transfer it to, so I was wondering if I could just leave...

So I was planning on brewing a hemp beer for my next batch, but the problem is that I can't seem to find a good recipe anywhere. I did find one that looks pretty good, but I wanted to get everyone's opinions on here. I'm confused because some people online say to use marijuana buds in your...

I just finished fermenting my pumpkin beer that I made from a recipe that I found online. When I was bottling it today, I poured a little in a cup to taste and I noticed that it tasted bitter and had no pumpkin taste or aroma, it just tasted like a regular beer. I don't know how this could have...