Recent content by kash

What is that in the picture above? What site did you get it from?

How do they filter it? Is it possible for a homebrewer to do so? What all would be involved in doing so?

I have the secondary. What do major companies that sell beer in stores do to prevent the yeast layer?

I was reading the online book by Palmer, and he was talking about the yeast layer in the bottom of the bottle. He said that you have to be careful when you pour your home brew, not to disrupt the yeast. So the question is, will every homebrew i make have a undrinkable portion of the...

So i should just get a brown bottle that requires a bottle opener, and it should work okay?

Why will the clear bottles wreck the beer?

What bottles do you think i should use. Anything that requires a bottle opener? My capper will be a the one from the kit at midwest supplies. Item number mbek2 priced at 79.95. When you sanitize in the bucket, how long do you usually let it sit, and how many times over can the water be...

Going to be starting my first brew and was wondering the best way to go about sanitizing the kit as well as the bottles. My plan was to use a bunch of Miller High Life bottles since i have them in abundance. I hope the high life bottles will work, correct me if i am wrong though Cheers Kash

Thanks for the advice. I think that we have decided to go with the kit from midwestsupplies.com Also, we have started looking at the John Palmer book and started browsing for ingredients trying to decide what to make. Any other advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. Kash

Thanks for the advice guys. We have actually been looking at the kit one of you mentioned earlier. I think your recommendation actually pushed our decision through to purchase it. Our next question is : Where do we go to buy the ingredients while trying to avoid online purchases. Their...

We have been comparing prices on many of the starter kits on the internet being that their isn't local store to get them. Most of the kits appear to be pretty simple and thought we could probably piece most of it together and just buy the more specialized equipment. We would like to start with...