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Im looking to add wood chips when I rack my wort for the second time. Is there any special sanitation steps that I should look into like boiling the wood chips or oven baking them? Also, These were wood chips that were used at my work for another batch.... so is it still good to use, even months lat...

Thanks for the feed back everyone! I feel like a doof :oops: but i assume that everyone somewhat starts out this way. And it figures that I do have"How to brew" in my library. I just havent opened that one yet due to reading other "How to" books. For those of you that were wonder...

Ummmm..... my brewing system is pretty primative. I threw my grain in a pot with water, brought to a boil, strained out grain as much as possible by hand with a regular strainer, Let the wort boil for 45 mins, cooled, then added yeast. It went exactly like that. I really cant afford a mashton or any...

I just attempted to make an all grain brew last night and came out with almost half of my wort gone! I know a lot of it got soaked into the grain that i tossed out. I even added an extra gallon of water to compensate during the boil. What is the best way to extract the spent grains without losing al...

The first time I made beer I used a method of hot wort into an ice water bath. That should cool it down very rapidly. You just have to make sure that you factor in the to the over all liquid quantity. I found this tip on a "Good Eats: episode. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=28525270784...

Hello all, My name is Cesar and I was turned on to this club from a cool guy I met at "The Bruery". I wish I could remember his name. Either way, this is my first time posting and my first time making a Mead. I had a few questions about making mead that I need clarified. 1) I used 5 gallon...