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Glass carboys (or stainless) fermenters offer significant advantages over the typical plastic bucket. First they are much easier to clean and sterilize. Second, glass (or stainless) provides a 100% oxygen barrier, where plastic buckets are porous and can leak oxygen if stored for long periods. Third, plastic fermenters often have very poor seals around the top of the bucket and can leak in both directions making it difficult to determine when fermentation has actually completed. A 5 gallon glass carboy will do the job better, and is available at a very reasonable price from most stores.
Courtesy Beersmith.com

 

Home Brewing Tip – It is critical to use the proper yeast for the proper style of beer you are brewing. Wyeast and White Labs have detailed charts on their websites to help with your selection

 

Home brewing tip. Buy some type of auto-siphon , they are not expensive, easy to use, and makes siphoning easy.  Do not try to siphon by mouth and use whisky as a sanitizer.  The contact time for alcohol is 15 minutes so one would probably get buzzed long before the mouth is sanitized.

 

A home brewing tip for a brew that rivals Fuller’s ESB.  The recipe is available upon request, but the key points are as follows:
OG: 1.053-1.057 (13.25-14.25P)
FG: 1.010-1.016 (2.5-3.5P)
ABV: 5%
IBU’s: 35

Whooo!!, Can someone please just pass me a JBC ESB!!!!!

 

Cool the Wort Quickly – Cooling your beer quickly will increase the fallout of proteins and tannins that are bad for your beer and will also reduce the chance of infection. An immersion wort chiller is a relatively inexpensive investment that will improve the clarity and quality of your beer. Cooling is particularly important for full batch boils.
Beersmith Home Brewing Blog

 

Do not use distilled water as the full water base for your batch of homebrew. Use spring water or well water, but not city (chlorinated) water or distilled water. Distilled water lacks minerals and nutrients for proper yeast fermentation to take place

  

Purchase and use a brewing software such as Promash to formulate recipes. It is cheap and very helpful and will cut down the time spent figuring out gravities, alcohol % etc  .

  

Fresh ingredients are key to a great tasting homebrew. Make sure your yeast is not outdated, that your hops were stored refrigerated, and use dried malt extract (DME) as it is more shelf-stable than liquid malt extract. Make sure your malt crunches if bitten into, and doesn't have any "stale" characteristics. 

 

Ask bakeries or delis for their plastic buckets. Obviously they are food grade. Stay away from pickle buckets though. They are just about impossible to get rid of the smell. Also, almost any bucket with HDPE 2 stamped on it should be food grade, including paint buckets! Just because you found it in the paint section doesn't mean you can't use it for other things. 

 

Home Brewing Tip 7/14/2011

For people condidering home brewing- Do not be intimidated by thinking it is too hard to do.  Just keep it simple and keep it clean