Recent content by Magbwa

5 Gal Oatmeal Stout (My first Mini-mash) 445

I'm in Bordentown, I got all my equipment at Brewer's Apprentice in Freehold, right near the mall. Although after reading all the responses here I think I will have to check out Princeton Homebrew.

I had it a few months ago as well, the bottle alone was too awesome to pass up. It was good, but just about everything I've had from rogue is good.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/what-f-ck-growler-bomb-99981/ I think this might be the growler thread you are talking about. It was about them exploding if you tried to carb beer in them. -Jason

I wouldn't be too concerened with methanol levels as they are bound to be dwarfed by the ethanol levels created by the yeast. The antidote for methanol poisoning is ethanol consuption which if I remember correctly is due to ethanol's increased affinity for alcohol dehydrogenase. Once ethanol is...

Thanks, I will leave it alone.

I read these boards for months before I started my first brew so I have read plenty of posts about just letting things sit. It was for that reason that I had every intention of letting my beer sit in primary for a month before bottling. I took a peek in yesterday, 2 weeks post brewing and...

I have a question about homebrew competitions. My first batch is still in primary so I'm really just asking out of general curiosity but I've been doing some research into rules for entering your beer into competition and I haven't seen anything that says it has to be an original recipe. Am I...

I just finished my first brew yesterday with a Bass clone kit from a LHBS. After finishing up I wanted to check to see if my hydrometer readings were what they should be (measured 1.050) when I realized the recipe I had listed the pale LME in quarts instead of by weight (LME was supplied in...