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Friday night some friends and I are having an "Alcohol Potluck" and I'll be bringing some of my Chillin' Cherry Wheat (it's my first home brewed batch that I made Memorial Day from a Cherry Wheat extract kit from Midwest...and threw the name together just for the heck of it) among some other...

Yeah, that's a great point. I was just going to talk to my sis and find out or do some investigating of my own. If all else fails, the wedding is on a beach so we can just roll out to the sands to drink!! :rockin: I think I'll have the Apfelwein, a Blood Orange Hefe, and some sort of light...

I know there are quite a few threads on brewing beer for weddings, but I just need a little input. My sister is getting married in early November of this year and I'd like to bring some homebrew to the rehearsal dinner and reception. I know I can come up with some nifty names, labels, etc. but...

I'm new into home brewing and my friend and I came up with Deuce K Brewery. I was thinking of some logos but I'm not exactly the best in the creative/artistic department, so I thought I'd ask some of you who might be more experienced in that area. I'm open to any and all ideas! Thanks! :mug:

Belt Buckle???

I recently made my first batch and kept it around 75 F during fermentation using a tub full of water. To monitor my temp, I used a digital thermometer with a 6 ft. probe stuck in the tub of water. I would have liked to view the min/max temps. that it hit each day just to get an idea of the...

Right, right. I did have my primary bucket and secondary carboy in a large tub full of water, but I didn't do any ice pack rotations or anything because I was able to keep it right at 75 F (recipe called for 65 - 75 F for fermentation) just from ambient temp. in my house. I don't want to throw a...

+1 for Midwest. Ordered home brewing kit and Cherry Wheat recipe kit from them recently and I've got no complaints. You can also view the recipe instructions for each kit on their website which is quite helpful.

I'm planning to bottle today after work. Recipe says to let the bottles sit at 60-70 F during conditioning. How about 75 F? That's what its been fermenting at for the past 2 weeks and I don't have anything built at the moment to keep the bottles between 60 and 70, but I can make it around 75 the...

I'm planning to bottle today after work. Recipe says to let the bottles sit at 60-70 F during conditioning. How about 75? I don't have anything built to keep the bottles between 60 and 70, but I can make it around 75 the same way I did during fermentation. Any thoughts?

When I bottle, I'll siphon the beer out of the secondary (carboy) and into a bottling bucket with a spigot. Transferring the beer twice sounds like a lot of extra work and more room for contamination/oxygenating to me, but it's my first batch and I'm just going by the directions in the recipe...

Wow! A lot of input here, thanks everyone! Since it's already in my secondary I think I'll leave it there for about a week and then bottle condition for 2-4 weeks just as a benchmark to compare future batches to. As I mentioned, it was already around 1.010 when I transferred to the secondary and...

I just transferred my Cherry Wheat to the secondary fermentor (5 gallon carboy) and I'm not sure how long I should keep it in there. I took a hydrometer reading while transferring to my secondary and it was about 1.010, which is the FG from the recipe...

My first batch was a Cherry Wheat extract kit from Midwest. I steeped my grains in the grain bag that came with the kit, then re-used the bag to put my first addition of hops in. I tied a knot in the bag so the hop pellets were kind of tight in the bag with no extra room. Once I put them in to...