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Some places that my friends and I like to go and enjoy a brew have a no-glass policy so I was planning on bottling my latest cherry apfelwein in PET bottles. I figured that this would probably work out nicely because plastic bottles simply must be much less expensive than glass, right? Nope...

I was looking around to see if I could find a source for PET bottles designed for carbonated beverages. I've seen a few of the amber colored ones for Mr. beer and stuff, but I was hoping someone knew of a place that sold 1-liter or so bottles brand new, even if they are not amber, especially if...

So, a friend of mine and I, while bottling a batch of stout, got to talking about how anything with sugar could be made into beer. So we came up with the following recipie: 14 Liters Coca Cola (water up to 5 gallons) 20 oz of snickers bars 3lbs dry malt extract (amber) 2oz east kent...

So, I wanted to get my friend into the homebrew scene and I gave him my old Mr. Beer setup. We made a simple dark ale and then we bottled it. It looked good, tasted good, smelled good. A week later, we cracked them open and there was no carbonation. Zero. None. Like dark brown tap water...

I brewed a big beer according to recipe i found on tastybrew.com. It had 13 pounds of dry malt in a 5 gallon batch, but I ended up watering it down to 6 because it seemed a bit excessive. It fermented for 4 weeks and then I bottled last monday. I just popped one open today and the flavors...

Well I finally made my first "real" beer, IE not using hopped extract and not apfelwein and I MAY have went a little crazy. I found a recipe online for an "imperial stout" though it seems like it will turn out nothing like one. Here's the recipe: 6lb Light DME 6ln Amber DME 1lb Dark DME...

Can a microwave be used for sanitizing small pieces of non-metallic equipment like hoses, bottles, etc? As i recall, a minute in a microwave is supposed to kill all microbes. I was thinking it would be easier for me to sanitize my bottles in the microwave than making cleaning solution and...

Hey everyone, I'm a brew n00b and I've decided to branch out from my typical batches of Edwort's Apfelwein and make a simple stout. Now I live in a studio apartment so I have a slight problem with space and SWMBO has a slight problem with fermentation odor, so I was planning on fermenting...

I just got a ~6 Gallon fermentation bucket from the LHBS and I'm having serious issues with it. It's a "true brew" and I cannot for the life of me get the top on right. I've tried pushing on it, I've tried a rubber mallet, I've tried hammers. I CANNOT get the top on all the way. Is there a...

Hey everyone. After my first batch from Mr. beer I've decided to go ahead and upgrade to a more traditional setup. For my first real batch of beer I've wanted to do an Oktoberfest style, but I have some questions. AFAIK, Oktoberfest and Marzen are supposed to be the same thing, right...

Hello everyone! I'm new to the homebrewing scene but I just completed my first batch and it came out great! Just a simple canadian draft from Mr. Beer, but no off flavors and very tasty. I had a party and this was preferred by everyone there to the heineken that another guest brought...