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My latest brew spent two weeks in primary, and I decided to rack to secondary this weekend because it will probably be another two weeks before I am able to bottle and I wanted to get it off the trub. I took hydrometer readings over the space of three days and the readings came in the same - it...

I'm curious what effect the addition of maple syrup would have on the ABV% and flavor of a beer. I brewed a Maple Brown Ale on 11/3 from the following recipe: 6 lbs. light LME 3/4 lb. Victory malt 1/4 lb Crystal 80 1/4 lb Chocolate 8.5 oz. pure maple syrup 1 oz. Chinook 1 oz. Fuggles...

So there I was last night bottling my second batch of homebrew and it hit me. I didn't have enough bottle caps to finish off the batch! :eek: My LHBS was closed for the day, so I couldn't run & pick up more. So after bottling everything I could, I sealed the remaining brew in my bucket and...

Ok, I don't have a wort chiller and my last batch has chill haze from what I think was an inefficient cold break (it took forever to get the wort down to pitching temps). We just had a new freezer delivered yesterday, and the thought came to me that with my next batch I should just put my...

Ya'll, My first batch has been in the bottles for only seven days...and got a little antsy last night - I just had to know if my first batch would be successful or not. And the verdict - SUCCESS!!!! :ban: While it's definitely not an award winner, I was extremely pleased with the...

All, On the advice of my LHBS, I pulled the airlock off my primary yesterday to clean all the gunk off after all of the foam (or is that krausen?) :D got in it from a batch I brewed this weekend. Those gnarly little things are hard to clean at the bottom of the little tube. What's the best...

All, I've been interested homebrewing for a while, and I finally bit the bullet, bought the equipment, and brewed my first batch this past weekend. I've already gotten great advice here and look forward to spending more time here. :rockin:

I'm a newbie homebrewer and I just made my first batch this weekend. I cleaned/sanitized my equipment, followed the recipe, pitched the yeast and set my fermenter aside to start working @ midnight Sun. I checked it 6:30 Monday morning and it was already very active - I had foam coming out of...