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Title really spells it out, but when can you stop calling yourself a beginner?

I have poured of John Palmer's book and Papazain's book and really haven't found a clear cut answer to how high of an FG is too high. The closest to an answer I found was 1: when the gravity readings have leveled off and 2: when gravity reading have decreased by 1/4-1/5 of the original. My goal...

So I normally brew 1-3 gallon batches. When I use liquid yeast I feel using the entire smack pack or vial is over pitching and so far using about half the package has worked well. I just dont know how to keep ad store the remaining liquid to use at a later date. Could I store it in a sanitized...

The warmer months are heading towards us fast, so I wanted to brew a nice, easy drinking, refreshing beverage. I wanted something close to a blonde ale. This is an all extract boil with several hop additions (all German Hallertau). First problem, even though I split the DME additions 1/2 at the...

As you can tell by the title I'm new to home brewing and I've notice that the only way I truly learn is by failing. On my venture to be a good home brewer I decided that I would have to take the most basic ingredients and form my own recipe in order to get a reel appreciation of what each...

Growing up up in the sticks of Maryland we learned from our not so innocent Aunts and Uncles how to make "Cheap Booze". It wasn't uncommon for my friends and I to have a jug of hooch (cheap fruit juice, sugar and bread yeast), dandelion wine or just plain sugar water bubbling away in the back...

Last night I brewed a Belgian Tripel extract with specialty grain kit. Its been in my primary fermenter for about 24 hours and now the krausen has bubbled up and out my blow off tube. My question is, should I take the blow off tube out, clean it up and replace it or just leave as is? The end of...

I officially have brewed a handful of times and am now looking to put together my next batch. I have saved several recipes that i was interested in, but I really want to experiment and play around with different ingredients. Most, that I have talked to, have said brew something you like...

Full disclosure, I have only officially brewed once and it was a 1 gallon all grain kit ( turned out ok). I really want to get a feel for the whole process, taste of ingredients as well as jumping into creating my own recipe. I kinda feel like I jumped into the deep end with starting off...

So, Im new to home brewing over all. The misses loves hard cider so I thought I would give it a go. Took 2 gallons of a local orchards cider, added 1# brown sugar and pitched Montrachet yeast. OG wast 1.070, fermented around 72 (temp of my apartment). After about a week took hydrometer reading...

Hey all, new to the forum and to brewing beer. In my younger days it wasn't uncommon to find juice bottles with balloons on top of them in my closet, but the days of that rot gut stuff are long over. I wanted to get into brewing for a long time but there was always an excuse not to do it. It...