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Okay so I have been getting ready all week for our first brew and it is on a brand new three tier brew stand that I built over the past couple weeks. I am fairly confident in all areas, but I had a minor hiccup with the mash tun. I am using a converted 15.5g keg for a mash tun and I had...

I am stuck... I am about to bottle 5 gallons of English pale ale and I can't figure out how much to use for priming... I am going for 1.5 volumes of C02, but I can't tell if I am reading this priming sugar calculator I have handy... Its telling me to use less than an ounce of cane sugar to...

Okay, so I have a bunch of questions regarding the use of keggles for brewing 10 gallon batches (or big 5 gallon batches). After looking in Craigslist in an area within reasonable driving's distance for kegs I am figuring out it may be almost the same price (if not cheaper) to buy 3 kegs...

So for my second extract batch we bought a nylon straining bag to steep the grains with, and we were almost done steeping before we realized that we didn't have a clue where we were gonna put the hops (we were out of muslin bags). We had read that you can put them in the boil straight up, but...

So my brew partner was in charge of ordering the supplies this go around and we had both written out the recipes we were going to try along with the ingredients that went with them (extract recipes BTW)... Anyway, he ordered all the stuff from Austin Homebrew Supplies, and this particular site...

So I am on 5 gallon extract brews right now and still perfecting that. But I plan on buying parts slowly to move straighth from 5 gallon batches of extract to 10 gallon of all-grain (in the course of 5-6 months or so). I am trying to configure a list of what to look out for in ebay and...

Okay so my friend and I split the cost for a 5 gallon beer brewing kit from midwest supplies (intermediate package).. it came with: 1 6.5 gallon primary fermenter bucket 2 5 gallon better bottles 1 6.5 gallon bottling bucket Auto-Syphon Hydrometer reader Bottle filler (we...

So a week ago my brewfriend and I did our second batch :). It was an Cream Stout recipe from Midwest Supplies. It states an OG of 1.043 - 1.049... I have also read that cream stouts typically want to stay below 1.054 and above 1.040 because they don't do so well with high alcohol. The kit is...

So the kit I bought for my initial 6 month extract brewing start up (I bought it to brew extract so I could learn basic brewing while slowly buying bigger and better parts for all grain brewing at a 10 gallon capacity) came with 1 6.5 gallon Pail Ale bucket, 2 - 5 gallon Better Bottle Carboys...

So I was reading different recipes some fellow home brewers have got going on here and I was wondering something about fermenting temps after noticing something... Some recipes call for holding the batch in the primary at a temperature of say... 68 degrees... Does this mean keeping a room at...

Okay so I have brewed with Mr. Beer before, but have recently bought an upgrade to a 5 gallon extract kit through Midwest Supplies. I also bought their ingredient kit which is for a Honey Hefeweizen. This is my first batch using my new 5 gallon kit. After reading about different opinions on...

Hey, been lurking around here for a few weeks now. Just getting around to posting. Here is a quick history of my brew experience. - Bought Mr. Beer Kit for my dad when I was 11 years old (this was 13 years ago). - Dad brewed 100+ batches of Mr. Beer and LOVED it. - Turned 22 and...