I got the flask with the understanding that it would be able to boil, cool, and ferment the starter all in one vessel. That seemed very convenient due to both the smaller clean up, and reduced risk of contamination. Plus, aside from my brew kettle, I don't have great pots. What I have all came...

Hey folks, Does anyone have any tips on preventing boil overs when making a yeast starter? I'm using a 2000mL erlenmeyer flask to boil and ferment the starter. The flask came with a receipe for a starter that calls for: 1.75 cups DME 1 pinch Fermaid K 1800mL of water But when I follow the...

Wouldn't shaking or stirring at that point add extra oxygen? Unless you could do something like replace the air in the fermenter with CO2?

Interesting, I never knew the type of hops changed.

While I hope I'm not jist believing you just because it is what I want to hear, but it does match up with my understanding of why IPAs are they way they are. I always thought the orginal point was to almost over hop them as a preservative. But I can also understand that if the modern drinker...

Weird, I always thought that that IPAs were meant to last for a long time. Didn't they come about in order to keep for the six plus month journey to India?

I see a lot of posts on here that stress how important patience is in brewing, especially when aging or conditioning beer. This makes a lot of sense to me since I love things like barrel aged beers. So waiting a long time to enjoy isn't an issue. But I have also seen some talk about beer going...

Right where I belong.

I really should have taken notes as I went along. This site seems to have some great tools for record keeping though.

Thanks for the tip.

Hey folks. I recently brewed my first real beer (not counting terrible attempts made back in college with no research, and using plastic milk jug fermenters with balloons duct taped to the top in place of airlocks). I opened the first bottle last Saturday. So I thought I would stop by and share...