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wow. i now take a look at that mess in the bleak light of dawn and i can see i was surely in rare form last night. that counts as poetry there? you guys are way too kind! that was some good drunken ramblings about being high on homebrew and being high on the idea of homebrew

yup he got it

yet here i am postingere. im not even trying to fix the typos and im sure there are plenty. ah yes, the feeling of being drunk on hombrew. the brew i built. that little hiss you hear when you open the bottle?i put that there. the heady smell of yummy hops? i put that there the tasty...

ok here we go. a photo always goes good this is oktoberfest. based on coopers extract and muntons amber dry malt extract. was thinking about steeping some hops but all i had was northern brewers:( also, bottled that load of steam brew too. 53 bottles! i drank that last half bottle and i...

making up another brew tonight. and drinking a bunch of homebrew. and managing some wine too. tonights brew: oktoberfest style based on coopers extract and some malt of some kind amber i think. yay!

i figured the same thing as Torchiest. dumped the stuff in there flaming hot and figured 'ah screw it so a few yeasties bite it but there are plenty more where they came from'. the strongest survive, right? or is it the ones at the bottom of the bucket that dont get fried with the hot liquid...

i have used muntons, edme, john bull, and coopers. none were bad and edme was my favorite

i like to brew around. life is too short to stick with just one. maybe repeat some of the better ones though i really liked the edme red ale and plan on making another batch of that at some point

yeah sounds to me like he added some sugar then just sort of let the brew sit. the priming sugar should be added when you are actually ready to do the bottling. when you add the priming sugar, the clock is sort of ticking to get the brew in the bottles.

but wouldnt the cap pop off before the whole bottle exploded? sure thats still a mighty bottle geyser but maybe a little better than a bottle fragmentation grenade. i would think the cap would be the weak point right?

nice 6 jimi

did a little brewing tonight myself. a steam style. got the recipe at the local shop. my first time using whole grain steeping and hops. went real smooth and smelled great. heres what it ended up looking like. just after pitching

a few photos of the brew the red ale i had posted about before. here it is in the new and improved setup i got running. primary fermenter sits atop an upside down plastic trash can i found at wal mart so it can be easily siphoned off into the secondary without having to manhandle it out...

threw together some red ale of some kind tonight. used a fancy white labs yeast. seems to be way low on the hydrometer though. 1030 and the can says should be up in the 50's. used 2 pounds of LME. it will be ok im sure. ill just relax and have a brew or 7. also, bottled our latest dry beer...

ok i had the same thing happen and it wasnt limited to a single bottle. some bottle were pretty close to flat and some a little better, but none of them were really as fizzy as they should be. the caps seemed to be on well enough, though they werent as tight as commercial brew caps. i kind of...