Hello! I am a recently retired heavy industrial electrician who had to have a knee replaced so that ended my career.Now I have time to brew my own beer but I only drink about two a day so I only brew 5 gallons at a time. I really do not understand a lot of the terms that I have reading about on...

I am a new member and just brewed my first batch of CALIFORNIA COMMON.After my 60 min. boil and chilling of the wort,I was able to transfer to my 5 gallon bucket about 4.5 gallons.It fermented for 10 days and then today I was able to transfer to my secondary bucket about 3.75 gallons. I am going...

Thanks for the help. I thought I ruined the whole batch!

Last week,I brewed a recipe for California Common and on the advice from my local supplier ,I added one floc tablet into my wort 15 minutes from the end of my boil. After I chilled the wort to 70 degrees and went to transfer the wort to my Primary Bucket from my brew pot I observed a lot of...