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Living Social has a black friday deal on the Northern Brewer Essential Starter Nut Brown Ale Kit for $56 + $7.99 shipping (regularly $79+$7.99 shipping). But if you use the coupon code BLACKFRIDAY you get an additional 25% off (final total was $49.99 shipped). You can buy one for yourself and...

I've just bought a new 16 gallon brew kettle (upgrading from a 5 gallon kettle so I can do full boils) and I need to set up a new equipment profile on Beer Smith 2. I'm doing extract recipes for now (going to switch to BIAB soon), I need help setting up an equipment profile for full boil 5 and...

Thought I'd share because it looked so nice. Its just churning away. Cyser fermenting away

When I left for work the krausen looked just like any I had before. When I got home I was greeted with this. This could have been bad if I didn't use a blow off tube. Always use a blow off tube!

I just brewed a honey wheat a few hours ago and this is how the fermenter looks now: Is this cold break? I've brewed a half dozen batches so far but I've not seen this yet. For this batch I did use a 50' 1/2" copper pipe immersion chiller I just built. It took my wort from...

First snow of the season. Here's hoping for A LOT more! The past couple years have been disappointing to say the least.

I'm going to bottle 5.5 gallons of hard cider and I was planning on using one 12 ounce can of frozen apple juice concentrate instead of 5 ounces of corn sugar to carbonate it. Is that too much frozen concentrate for 5.5 Gallons (probably 5.25 into the bottling bucket)? I will be using the...

So the story goes I'm fermenting a California Common beer. Three weeks in the primary (first two weeks at ~60*F and the last week at ~65*F). Took a gravity reading over 3 days and its set at 1.012 (my recipe called for 1.013). So I add 1 tsp gelatin with 1 cup water to try to help it clear (at...

I'm wanting to make a lingonberry melomel, but whole lingonberries are near impossible to find (I have found one seller, but the cost w/shipping may be prohibitive). Can I use preserves to make a melomel? I'm guessing the added sugars in the preserve will have to be taken into account.

I'm loosely following EdWort's Apfelwein. 5.5 gallons Tree Top Cider (on sale at Smith's for $1.67 a half gallon) + 2 lbs Corn Sugar + one packet (re-hydrated) Safbrew WB-06. SG was 1.065. Going to let it finish and back sweeten with a can of frozen apple juice concentrate to carb up.

Would there be any effect or benefit to racking a hard cider that has fermented in the primary to a secondary on top of fresh sliced apples?

This is just an off the cuff hard cider. No recipe. Just 64 oz cider (less air space , probably 56 oz in the end), 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tsp baker's yeast (with a dash of yeast nutrient). OG was 1.073. We'll see where this ends at.

So I'm working on a Belgian Saison recipe. Saisons are typically spiced to some extent. My question is when to add the spice (a bit before knockout, at knockout, in the primary :confused:). Also how much to add? Currently with the recipe I'm working on I'm thinking adding the coarsely cracked...

Well he didn't eat the whole thing. Just chewed the corner off.

LOL I actually made beer. And its not bad. Certainly there are some improvements to be made (clarity, hop utilization, head retention) but I'm addressing those in my new recipes. This was a very basic amber ale. Just extract and hops for 60 minutes. I've since moved on to steeping grains...

So I want to add hops at flame out for some hop aroma. How much should I add? How much is too much? Is leaving them in for the ~20-30 minutes it takes to chill my wort enough?

Bottled my first batch. A simple amber ale.

Really new to homebrewing (I'm getting ready to brew my second batch) and I have a question on the relationship between boil size and hops bittering. Why does a smaller boil size mean less bittering? I can only get around 2 gallons to come to a boil on my stove top. So it looks like I will...

I have my ingredient list and I'd like to print a shopping list, but all I get is a page with a single ingredient. This is where I'm at. I'm in the shopping list tab but when I try to print or preview the print it only shows the yeast in the preview window and only prints out that. I want a...