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heres some pics AFTER clean up

while i was waiting to bottle my latest lager, i decided that it would be a good time to break in my BRAND NEW CARBOY!! So i brewed up an Imperial IPA and got it all in the carboy, left about 6 inches on the top and added the yeast. I waited hours and hours to see if the yeast was gonna...

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7 days is what i dry hopped my Imperial IPA and it was damm near perfect hop flavored. I had my hops in a bag but no bag works too

Ok fellow brewers, i had my son take a 12 pack over to a house of hop heads and IPA snobs... and the result was GREAT. I thought it was just me that liked it because it was "my first baby" but the response from a blind taste test was that it was a hit. I am happy

ok well its been almost 3 weeks so i popped one open to see how the carb up is doing, and i THINK someone must have shaken my 3 test bottles cause it foamed over like crazy while the first one i opened 4 days before was just barely carbed up. However, the hop nose and tastes are REALLY coming...

update: reading now sits at 1.040 but very slow fermentation. Added another prepped ec1118 packet and half an orange to give the yeast more to eat as well as some boiled yeast for the 1118 to feast on since i couldnt find yeast nutrient. If it doesnt go down to at least 1.020 by valentines i...

will it be enough for a 5 gallon batch? I am making 5 gallons

i get all my corona bottles from a friend who's pretty wife drinks corona. He brings me the empties and i de lime them, soak in oxy clean for a few days then wash. I am starting to think i might have accidentally grabbed the oxyclean with perfume instead of my oxy free. When i was making...

ok, since my Imperial IPA is now officially bottled i figured it was time for something special. I realized today my oldest son will be 21 in Sept, so why not make him a special gift:mug::mug: of his very first MEAD!! i figure since his birthday is Late in the month, i have a good 9 1/2 months...

:mug: had this for my birthday and it was AWESOME i used the coopers stout kit but i will go extract next stout:drunk:

Ok, i tried making my first skeeter pee and i followed all instructions as best i could. While it did take FOREVER for fermentation to begin, it did finally take off and finished at around 10% which is right where i wanted it. The ONLY deviation i made to the recipe was the addition of 1 dram...

since i'm still new to the brewing game and this is only my 4th brew i did an extract.... heres how it went- 4 gallons water 5 lb extra light extract 2 lb pale malt extract 1 lb corn sugar hops schedule 90 min boil 1 oz centennial hops (pellets) 60 min boil 1/2 oz zythos hops (pellets) 30 min...

i tried hinting to my family and friends for years that i wanted to learn to make my own beer. It seemed i could never get enough money together to buy a kit, and when i had the money, i didnt have a store. Well finally this last summer my oldest son had a job that paid 3 times what i made and...