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It's brew day on Thursday and I'll have 25g of whole Cascade hops which I've previously used for dry hopping. Question is can I re-use these as bittering hops at 60 minutes and add flavour/aroma hops later in the boil? The thinking is that dry hopping doesn't 'drive-out' the bittering quality...

I've just done an extract brew using US-05 yeast. As expected it has formed a nice thick surface crust. Prior to dry hopping I want rack from FV1 to FV2. Question is should I attempt to remove the crust or syphon through it? Any advice appreciated.

I'm experimenting with different hops and grains using liquid malt extract as a base. Grains will be steeped in the kettle (a big pan) before adding the LME. Hops will be added at different times in the boil. As some brews may 'fail' I plan to use a shorter brew length of 11 litres. Yeast will...

Previous threads have suggested syphoning from a plain FV to a FV with Little Bottler attached after primary fermentation. The thinking is that this leaves most of the sediment in FV1. I am concerned that this additional exposure to air might increase likelihood of contamination. Also there's a...