I am doing my first ever brew with a premade extract recipe. It is a 5 gallon batch and I am coming up to bottling time and I don't have enough bottles yet. I ordered some more but they won't be here until after my scheduled bottling day. My thoughts was to split the batch into a second...

So Ive found this boiler. And I was wondering if anyone has a grainfather sparge boiler and if it can do a rolling boil? I've seen people discuss buffalo boilers and modding them, but I've not seen anyone use a grainfather sparge boiler. Any help or community knowledge would be super...

Hi All I'm kind new on this, I have done beer twice. My first time was not that bad. But the 2nd time was awful, the beer at the end was like sour. My guessing is that was contaminated at some point. I'm looking for an easy recipe which I could duplicate and get practice. If you now some, that...

Happy New Year fellow brewers - many wishes for a better 2021. As may be appropriate for 2020, I am ending the year thinking my batch of a Weizenböck went bad early in the fermentation process. Here's the grain bill: Wheat Malt - 1.8 kg Munich Malt - 1.0 kg Pale Ale Malt - 0.9 kg CaraRed -...

Just trying to brew for my time first ever. Thought i would try a a light one. Bud Light Clone. I picked up all the ingredients but the brew instructions does not tell me when to add the 1lb dextrose. Sounds like a lot for the bottling carbonation???

So, the day before Thanksgiving I bottled a batch of an American Pale Ale and then left to go back home for vacation. This morning, I come home to bottles that evidently had "exploded." However, the caps are still on and the bottles are either 50% percent full or 75% full.. Is there any chance...

Hello! I got a challenge from a friend of mine to brew a decent Extract ONLY stout. That means no steeping grains at all. Only a combination of Extracts allowed. Additions of sugars/maple syrup/coffee and other additives are also accepted. Just not more steeping grains. Since this is new...

I'm looking to halve a recipe from a book that i've got. Essentially I don't have the capacity to do a full batch and just want to squeeze a half-batch in. I'm just trying to figure out how to correctly halve everything? I'm assuming that grist and hops will all get halved, but the water...

I am going to brew my first IPA. I would be very happy if you could see what you think about my recipe, and maybe give a few tips in general or regarding the recipe. Thank you in advance ! - Alexander. Problems posting link because my recipe is in the grainfather database. Grainfather recipe...

Need some help. I have looked around many places for answers and still can't seem to figure out what my issue is. I made a red ipa and force carbonated it in a 5 gallon keg. 3 days later I checked it and still seemed pretty flat in carb levels. Came out pretty foamy. I put the keg back up to 30...

Hi all, I am new to the forum so my name is Rik and i'm starting a part-time community brewing company to hopefully sell beer, earn a modest profit and use these profits for local community ventures. Doing good from drinking beer! (hartestbrewing.co) I am in the process of putting together a...