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i actually have all of those , the Karo syrup contains Corn syrup and high fructose though

i have no way of getting priming sugar in the next week and there sa good chance i may be spending the next 3 months in a wonderful county prison . can i use Karo corn syrup boiled in water as a priming sugar?

my other 4 batch's i let got for 3 week usually , this time i had the patience and let them go for 6 weeks and man did it pay off , even the clarity greatly improved .

looks very interesting Home Brew Contest

try using Perle Hops for the bittering hops

im 5 brews in now and i have noticed one thing . Extract kits do not taste the same as if you bought the ingredients fresher from a LHBS . go to www.beertools.com they have the largest recipe database i have seen , just go to recipes and in the search section select "extract" and then type "nut...

heres one i made... <p> Pennsylvania Ale lah Akbar 1.00 lbs. American Caramel 60°L info 3.50 lbs. Dry Extra Light Extract info 3.50 lbs. Dry Light Extract info 1.00 oz. Perle (Pellets, 8.25 %AA) boiled 60 min. info 1.00 oz. Chinook (Pellets, 13.00 %AA) boiled 20 min. info 2.00...

im on my 5th brew now , i bought a brewers best IPA kit , every time i buy a brew kit i usually pick up a white laps yeast that goes with the kit i bought , i have had much luck with W.L. and wanted to stick with them . The kit i bought used Nottingham yeast with no specific type of yeast...

im on my third batch , the last two i did were drinkable and all but nothing great . I got a S.A. Boston Lager Clone off of beertools.com , its in its second week in the secondary now , i just took some out for a taste with a turkey baster , its not even carbonated yet and tastes EXACTLY like...

i guess it is sulfur , it smells like taco bell farts.

this is my 3rd batch so far in my career . im brewing a "lager" beer with WLP029 German Ale/ K&#246;lsch Yeast . This baby has been bubbling away for 2 days now and fermentation started very quickly at about 12-15 hours. i had my first experience with a blow out of the stopper and bubbler ...

im tinkering with the idea of using a 15 gallon fish tank filter to filter the sediment out of my beer during bottling. has this been done before? would it be ok useing activated charcol and cotton in the filter? will my beer still carbonate using priming sugar?

actually now you get a letter saying there video was edited wrong and if you make another order later they will include it.

would there be any benefits to this? i have a Sam Adams Boston Lager Clone Going Right now . i had it 6 days in the Primary . i have now had it in the second for 7 days. would there be any benefits to moving it to a 3rd carboy and leave it for another week before bottling it?

i wonder how many times that joke gets recycled on this board