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An idea popped into my head today on how to save money on beer. Let's say I go to my local brewery, fill up a few growlers for personal consumption, and immediately pour them into 12 oz bottes and cap them. Has anyone tried this before? Reason is, I'd love to save some money by not buying...

nice! there's nothing better than enjoying your first glass of homebrewed beer :)

495+10 = 505

LOL that's great.

When you think it has stopped fermenting, take a hydrometer reading. After that you can decide either to leave it in the primary or rack to secondary. Personally, I only use my secondary carboy to make apfelwein and I let my beers clear in the primary. It's based on preference so do as you wish :)

I have been having the same problem as you since buying a new 10 gallon rubbermaid MLT. I think the problem has been over compensating and letting the strike water get to 175, which was way too hot even without preheating the mashtun. I am brewing again today and this time I will only heat to...

For now, add the trub into the fermenter as well, and you'll end up with more hop aroma in your beer in the end. In the future you can make yourself a hop bag out of a paint strainer and PVC pipe to keep the hops inside.

haha cute dogs, how old is your new one?

When an enzyme is denatured it will no longer function because the structure of the protein(enzyme) has been changed and unfolded.

Thanks for the replies guys, I will be trying this with Biermuncher's centennial blonde tomorrow, I plan on adding some crushed mint leaves at flame out and also adding some mint extract at bottling time if needed.

As I was brewing today I was eating some mint chocolate chip ice cream and pondered the idea of adding mint leaves to the brew for a unique flavor. Has anyone tried this before? If I do decide to try this, it will be done with a light beer with a small grain bill variety and hopefully there...

maybe his keyboard is broken ;)

LOL, and I thought yooper would have company..

very nice, that looks delicious. Mind sharing the recipe? :)

I think I will buy the boot glass, that is really awesome :mug: :ban: