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Hey guys, I've had a kit ginger beer in the fermenter since 3/1/14, I generally let Ginger Beer go a little longer to make sure it's completely fermented out and to avoid bottle bombs. I took it off the yeast cake about a week or so ago. I had "dry hopped" birds eye chilly (after soaking them...

I've recently stared AGB and to fill my gaps I've been reading over http://www.howtobrew.com/ but I'm beginning to find it a little frustrating that the measurements are all in the imperial scale - along with that all of the formulae are following the imperial scale, not impossible to convert...

I'm making up a brown ale which has been in primary for two weeks now - I might let it go another week or more though I've come to open the fermenter today and noticed this brown gunk floating to the top. The yeast I used is US-05 incase that has anything to do with it as I've read some yeasts...

Ok so I'm wondering what the difference between flavour between "Flameout" hopper and "Dry Hopping" For example I was to: 1) Bring a wort to a boil, then throw in some hops and boil for ~2 mins. After that then put the wort into a fermenter and cool it down to pitch OR 2) Have a brew...

Hi, I got wind of this recipe for Wassa's Honey Porter using cascade chocolate porter. So I went and bought one of those Morgans Cascade hops tea-bags, the thing is that I don't think I've hopped it correctly, because I've never hopped anything from a tea-bag before. I just followed the...

n00b brewer here, I've decided to move from plastic bottles to 330ml glass bottles, I've tried doing glass partially for the last 2 brews and things turned out fine with them so I'm ready to take glass on fully. So what I've got a problem with currently: My bottling process takes FOREVER, I...

Hi Guys, Reason why I'm posting is because I've made about 4 kit brews so far and I'm still only using a primary fermenter, and then going from there directly into the bottles. The tastes are ok, but have a very consistent yeasty flavour (and sludge at the bottom of the bottles) so I'm wanting...