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$150 - Williams Homebrew kit (32 Qt kettle). I added the thermometer to the kettle. Comes with all the stuff needed to extract brew (wort chiller, spoon stirrer, Fermenter bucket and Bottling bucket, bottle capper, bottle filler, hydrometer and test tube, bottle tree (45), and bottle rinser, all...

5 Homebrew books and a years worth (2014) Brew Your Own magazine with the extra All Grain edition. Books are $10 ea plus s/h Magazine collection $10 plus s/h Or $45 shipped for all.

We started buying these for fishing trips because you could screw the cap back on and glass wasn't allowed. They work great and hold 16 oz. anyone reused this to bottle their homebrew? I would think as long as your seal is good they would work fine?

On my next two batches that are fermenting I want to fill one of my tap a drafts for each beer, then put the rest in bottle. Tap a draft calls for a lower priming rate than bottles. How do I do both and do it right? I usually just dump the bag of sugar from the kit in hone priming bucket...

My yes sense since I was using DME. Much harder to mix good. Any reason to go DME over LME?

Since I've been down here I have had 3 visits to the Dr. For saline IVs after catching some lovely gift from Mexico, shagella, ecoli, standard mexibelly, you name. This place is filthy, can't wait to move back to the states. Did not use tap water, used bottled water.

I noticed the sample was pretty dirty, as in a lot of sediment that got into the fermenter and was floating. Would this give me a higher reading?

I just brewed the CDA last night and my OG was 1.066 @ 74*F, so the corrected OG was 1.067. The instruction sheet said to expect around 1.059. Am I still alright? This is my second brew, so I don't know what the difference means. Will I want to look for a number a litter higher than the...

I was brewing the Auustin bee cascading dark ale extract kit. Used wheats greenbelt, and it was a very active expanded bag. Just got home and she is pumping out some co2! Maybe I dodged a bullet?

So I was brewing last night was using the wort chiller. Right when it reached 80, the wort chiller sprung a leak at the hose connection and starting spraying tap water into my wort. I quickly shut it down. I am expecting an infection because, well I live in Mexico and the tap water is, lets...

Am I the first to try one???

Williams Brown Ale. Im an idiot and didnt check my OG. Thus the reason for my OG post a while back. This is my first batch. I have to say, so far it has gone very well.

So I just ordered a secondary fermenter. I went with the Williams Vintage 5 gal with a spigot. Since my whole set up has spigots from brew pot, to fermenter, to bottling bucket, I thought it only made sense to have my secondary with a spigot. Anyone else have one...

My beer was bottled on 11/26, all in 1/2 liter swing tops. A buddy just had all 48 of his 12 ozs go off after 2 weeks in the bottle. I assume, swing tops can take more pressure? Also, when am I in the clear? I dont expect any issues, but his bombs had me worried a little. I bottled...