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22062 Yummmm!

I usually just pull it out of the fridge when I first start cleaning and sanitizing everything. I let it warm up a bit while all thats going on and then smack it around the time my boil starts. I give it a good shake, per the directions on the back, a few minutes before pitching time. No...

How do you plan on brewing, electric of gas? What location is more temperature stable? We brew in the garage or outside when its nice out. We brew on the side burner of an old grill right now. It works out great if you have the room to store a grill.

21,001 + 5 = 21,006

I usually just smack mine before I start brewing. So it sits maybe 2 hours and usually swells up pretty good. Once i'm close to being cooled down I will shake the pack up a bit and then it really swells.

Last time my father and I brewed drunk I broke the hydrometer. I don't know how I did it. All I did was take it out of the tube and some how I caught the very top tip on the lid when I was putting the lid back on the tube and snapped the tip off. DOH.

Many here will say to ferment for a month and then bottle. I ferment for 2 weeks or however long I can, until I need my fermenter, and then rack to a secondary for 10 to 4 days. I like to lift my fermenter and carboys up and leave them up high for a few days. That lets the sediment fall and...

Well I never did this but I guess i'll try and get my dad to try it.

We have one rule about late night drunken munchies. . . . Don't eat too much cheese. My buddy and I were working on a case of honey brown. We polished it off and another buddy came over and his sister drove us out to the bar. After a night out at the bar we came home and started chowin down...

5 gallon in the fermenter 20297 + 5 = 20,302

Thank you thank you. I will give those a try. I guess i over looked those at autinhomebrew.

I now have my second homebrew in the fermenter. A Honey Wheat. My first batch, a red ale, turned out great. This second batch tasted amazing and we think will turn out even better. My father and I want to brew a porter. We want something with a little higher alcohol content, around 7%...

Well tonight I cracked open my first home brew so I decided it was time to start posting. I have been lurking for a while now and have my second batch in the fermenter. (a honey wheat) I am 22 and still in school so I live with my parents. My father and I had always talked about brewing...

That looks pretty nice. To bad Boucher let to many by this year. I always like watching Boucher. One day hes amazing the next day he lets 5 goals in. Go Canucks Go

Im in.