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my blonde ale

couldn't I hook some tube up to my tap and run it to a bottle filler.

I usually just keg my brew, but I would like to bottle a six pack to keep for down the road. So my question is, what is the best way to get these boys carbonated? Some small recipe of priming sugar, or are priming tablets better off, and do they work well? :tank:

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thank you everyone very helpful I did make sure it was mixed very well before checking gravity home brew store guy gave me that tip. I just entered the recipe into Hopsville calculator and it gave me 1.073 which is close enough. anyways I'll take revvy's advise and relax

yes everything was included in beer smith

do you think the Malto-Dextrine will help with that at all? How do you get a full flavored big beer?

I just brewed a recipe I'm going call it a brown ale. its 6lb amber DME 1lb crystal malt 40L 1lb corn sugar (wanted to boost ABV) 8oz Malto-Dextrine 2oz cascade boil 1oz fuggle aroma safale US-05 at 70 turned out with a OG of 1.071 I used beer smith and it calculated it to...

Cool i have and old slide scale with recipes on it i sort of followed it 7lbs dark LME 8oz chocolate malt 3oz fuggle 1/2 fuggle finishing went to the secondary yesterday. so six in the primary. i've read a lot that people hear don't like the secondary. I've also talk to a few people who...

hi everyone new to brewing so i figured i would join a forum for help. I'm going to start my first brew this Saturday. thinking of doing a porter since there my favorite. wondering if anyone has any good advice for me. such as what hops to use.