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I really enjoyed the 15 minute Cascade Pale Ale recipe recently and I'd like to do more 15 minute boil recipes. They seem like a great way just to keep the keg full of something I want to drink. I'm looking for ways to tweak the recipes and get as varied results as possible from the same...

I'm making MoreBeer's Doppel Bock and have looked all over, only to find precious little information about how to actually deal with the lagering. I have a nice fermentation controller that's been handling the temperature of the primary, but I'm a bit at a loss on what to do now. Lagers...

I had used http://www.brew365.com/mash_sparge_water_calculator.php a few times before to calculate my mash water and strike temp. It had seemed to work, but this time it was way off. I was brewing what should have been a nice dubbel, but ended up with over six gallons in the fermenter with a...

The fitting on my C02 regulator goes from the regulator straight to a barbed fitting. I want to be able to remove the gas lines easily and swap in my force carbonation setup. I think that means that I end up putting barbed swivel nuts on the line. My question is this... what is the fitting...

Since it's sometimes easy to think that older things were made better than many modern products, I've started to consider a 'vintage' capper. I'm kind of done with the wing capper and have found that there are all cast iron vintage cappers available on ebay for around the same as a Super Agata...

So, lacking a real mentor nearby, I've been doing the following: Mash Mash out with appropriate amount of water. Start draining the wort and recirculate until clear Add 170 degree sparge water to the top as the water starts to drain into the grain bed. So what kind of sparging is...

I've been off of beer brewing for years and did my first batch with a friend a couple of weeks ago. Once I had everything cooled and in the fermenter, I realized that I had 4 1/2 gallons due to losses during boiling even though I had added extra. It's sitting in the secondary waiting to be...

I just checked the final gravity on my first 5 gallon batch of cider. I was mystified at first by getting a reading of 1.030 after a month of active fermentation! Then I remembered to spin the hydrometer to free the bubbles. Dur. Once I got over that hurdle, I got a reading of 1.000 or maybe...

I'm having fun doing 1 gallon batches of cider and drinking it pretty young and sweet. If I want to make a ginger cider, do I add the ginger to the primary or the secondary? And I guess that means I need to strain either one right? And most info here seems to indicated that grated ginger gets...