I have been home brewing for three years and feel I am doing it all wrong. I have been trying to brew extract IPA's with whole leaf hops using SS mesh cylinders to contain the hops. I can stuff 4 oz of hops into each canister and typically on a 5 gallon batch, I will add at 60/30/0 minutes with...

I was out of town for 4 days & when I returned my casecade hops were attacked by this brown wilt. My suspicion is blight, any feedback?

Yes the garbage can may not have completely sealed and yet the bottleing co2 is what escaped or was not produced sufficiently. The was kranseni g in the fermentwr Yes it is quite likely my fermenter did not seal completely and yet I don't feel that caused any issues because it is the bottling...

My 13th brew session was an extract brew West Coast IPA. I had some issues during the brew with my equipment in cooling the wort that resulted in a foamy mess. (The transfer pump was unrestricted which made the flow too rapid) I had estimated a batch size of 7 gallons in a 10 gallon fermenter...

I have 13 extract brews under my belt and have tinkered with the best way to chill my wort. I began with adding bagged ice to my partial boil to bring up the volume and bring down the temp. I found my beer had much more character when I used a full boil and yet cooling down the wort has become a...

I have 15 extract brews under my belt. I use a 10 gallon stainless pot for my boil and push the maximum capacity of a 6.5 gallon plastic ALE Pail. I brew Ale's because of the fermenting temperatures do not requiring refrigeration. Many of my brews have used bagged ice to both lower the wort temp...

I have to chalk this one up to a learning experience, the hard way. I am new to this and only have 10 brews under my belt. All successful extract brews and learning along the way. I saw the results after a couple of gallons filtered. I quit the process and proceeded to just dump the remaining...

In an effort to brew a clearer beer, I read somewhere that if you use your whole cones as a filter prior to bottling, it will naturally trap the suspended particles in the cones resulting in a clear beer. Total Bull$&it!!! It washed out additional shit and made my beer into something I am not...