You definitely could but you don't have to. I like open fermenting a lot. Depending on the yeast strain it can really have a positive effect on the final product. All you need to do is throw some cheese cloth or something over the opening in your fermentation vessel (to keep dust out) and then...

Everybody has covered most everything, but I will add another vote for bottling directly from the fermenter. Especially for hoppy beers. I experimented for a while on pale ales and moving from a traditional setup to bottling from the fermenter made a night and day difference. That said, I still...

It's a load off my mind to know that I am not the only person to have had issues with this.

I also am not a big fan of the new update for when you choose to print. I like to have empty margins when I print my recipes so that I can take notes. In the past I could accomplish this by scaling the page to 90% when I printed. It would give me a little space all the way around. Now when I...