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I just bottled a Winter Warmer a few nights ago and for all the cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, etc that went in I was unimpressed with the taste for the most part. I'm hoping it gets better with age in the bottles as well.

Good morning, I've been thinking about doing a flavored wheat beer in the near future, either raspberry, peach, or strawberry. I've read a few threads on here about it but I was wondering why when adding the fruit to the secondary it doesn't go bad. I mean, you leave fruit out on a counter...

I just bought this kit Monday night, took a few days for them to process it so I won't have it till next week. I have high hopes for it, pretty cheap for a 5 gallon batch compared to my LHBS. This will be my first time using LME which could be interesting. Has anyone used this clone before...

I brewed a batch of Brown Ale recently and through my 'indulging' I've noticed a difference in the size of the head of the beers. Some are half of the pint glass while others may have almost nothing. So it got me thinking, what would make the head so big on some and so small on others...

Thanks for your help! I got 47 Winter Warmers out of the batch, a little less than I wanted but I played it safe so I didn't suck up sediment.

Evening all, Im about to bottle my Winter Warmer that has been sitting for about four weeks. I was reading the instructions that came with it (extract clone kit) and it says to add priming sugar to bottling bucket and bottle. My last kit from the same place said to boil the priming sugar...

I had a brown ale kit for my first batch. The FG never went below 1.019 after 4 weeks so I went ahead and bottled. I am enjoying it now and it is delicious. Just my personal experience, I am by no means an expert.

The lazy mans technique: Get 1 Cooler, fill with empty beer bottles, fill empty beer bottles with warm, soapy water, fill remaining cooler with warm water, let soak. After two or three days of soaking most of the labels have fallen off on their own. Remember to fill the bottles first or else...

Yeah, I wasn't too worried about infection. Thanks for the reassurance though.

I just wanted to share a few pics of my Spiced Winter Warmer and I also had a question towards the end. This is me sanitizing my new Better Bottle, rather than waste a lot of water and sanitizer i just filled it enough so I could lay it on its' side and roll it around every now and then to...

I had some DME boil over on me a little over a week ago. I was told in another post that citric acid would clean it up. My stove top is electric glass/some other crazy material. I was wondering if anyone knows where to get citric acid easily, such as a cleaning product having a big amount of it...

Chriso - thanks for the advice. I have a 5 port switch that I think I am going to try adding to the router and running the wired devices off that, but again that wont help the wifi laptop. I am only trying to share a printer and maybe gain access to My Documents to move things from computer to...

I have never heard of this I also have no intention of throwing down $16 every 5 batches, and just throwing more plastic into my towns landfill. Centuries ago they brewed beer in clay pots, never sanitizing, never using soap, using dirty water, dirty ingredients; I think we can do it just fine...

Thanks a lot for the help. I'll give pinging a shot when I get home and let you know how it works out.

I tried that too. Did the ipconfig last night and got each machine and tried a diff one on each. Got the same thing "\\19.xxx.xxx.x Path not found." The weird thing is I went to Manage Networks under McAfee thinking the firewall was blocking it but it was allowing it. It showed all three...