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Well first all grain day went pretty smooth, I did northern brewers cream ale. I will know more in about a month. So far the hardest part was getting a water tight fitting on my mash tun. After that the rest was not too bad. I sparged too much so I just boiled at a higher rate and came right...

Well I did a little drinking last Friday night and decided that I was ready to go all grain so I logged on to northern brewer and ordered 5 all grain kits. Well I have since been trying to get all my equipment together. I have watched youtube on building mash tuns and adding ball velves to...

Just got online to make my usual order to northern brewer and got to the yeast portion and nottingham has jumped to $4.50 each. I must have missed something what happened at danstar for the price to jump that much. I guess I will start washing and reusing it.

Yesterday I made yoopers dog fish head 60 min ipa recipe and started it fermenting before I went to work on graveyard shift. When I left there was no actiion yet. But when I got home I could bearly find the glass I was blowing off into. I cleaned everything up, watched a little tv and checked on...

I went on a tour of Real Ale Brewing Company in Blanco Texas this week while on vacation in Kerrville Texas. It was really a good time. They offer a tasting room and a 30 minute tour for free on Fridays. Our tour was led by the head brewer named Dread. He took time to answer everyones questions...

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I have a porter in the fermenter that has 1/2 lb patent and 7 lbs dark lme added bullion hops and vanilla I am hoping for a dard head the last time I used 1/2 pale and 1/2 dark extract the head came out white so I stepped it up

Bottled water has fewer guidelines to follow than municpalities so as far as drinking tap is safer but if you boil then you pretty much kill everything in the water so as far as bacteria goes either is fine but I have always heard that if you like the taste of your tap water then you will like...

You should be able to add all the sugar. Just wait an extra day or two for fermentation to complete.

I currently use a 12.2 gal pool chlorine (hth) bucket as a primary and 2 home depot (homer) buckets as secondaries I make 9 gal batches and I have had no problems. Just take care cleaning them don't scratch.

Thomas coopers ipa but add extra fermentables also check on youtube look up craigtube he loves coopers kits

In the olden days they used to use a 5 gallon crock with a towel over the top and a rubber band to hold the towel in place. I use a 12.2 gallon plastic bucket that used to hold pool clorine it has a screw on lid and is not air tight so I only get a lot of action out of my bubbler when it is...

I am a beginer but really enjoy beer. I got started about a year ago with some wine. But I like beer much better. Still an exrtact brewer but I like to modify recipes and see if I can taste the differnces. I have been lurking for a while so I have picked up quite a bit thanks.