Recent content by thelastPatriot

Right on! Welcome to the addiction! You'll soon find out that you will be researching beer, talking about beer, and enjoy beer in a whole new way.

So.....dispite all our advice you still insist on messing around with the brew. Sounds like a brewer if I ever met one. You need to leave it alone, the more you touch it the more chance there is for contamination . I could list a whole bunch of problems that might have occurred from just...

I see somebody has more self control then I. I always seem to be on the waiting end of the equation . Constantly looking at the last 6 pack I have bottled and drinkable and saying" damn! I wish I could brew 2 or batches at a time. I find a good beer doesn't last long at all, well.... Because it...

My advice for the beginner is always, leave it alone and let it work. I think we've all been there, over thinking the whole process ,Fussing with the batch, checking the gravity way to often. I agree you should peek at the batch to check temp. Check your bubbler( airlock) just as a gauge of...

I'm not so much a newbie just still an extract brewer. I recently became friends with fellow brewer who opened a home brew shop in town here(Good Luck Mitchell !) . This is the forum he's on so I thought I'd jump on board. Probably going to all grain on my next brew. Thanks for looking...