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Has anyone else ordered custom bottle caps? I'm making a bunch of beer for a friend’s birthday party this year and thought it would be cool to us a custom label and cap on the bottles. I found a site called Crafty Caps but I'm hesitant to use them because I can't find any info on them...

So I started brewing a Hefe the other day. Everything was normal with the brewing, it had a nice brownish color when it went into the secondary (see my banana recipe) but I've noticed that it's gotten very dark since the first day I've put it in there. It seems to me to be almost black at this...

So a long long time ago (say a couple of months now). I brewed up a nice batch of beer, put it in the primary, added yeast, etc. and promptly forgot about my beer until last weekend when I discovered it under a blanket in the summer kitchen. The lid was still on and the air valve somehow still...

I tried to brew my first IPA today. I put 3.3lbs Liquid Amber Malt extract, 3.3lbs Liquid pale malt extract, and 1lb Dry malt extract into 2 gallons of water, boiled for an hour adding 5 oz of hops to it at various times (around 70 IBUs). I cooled it and added it to 70 degree water. The...

Just how sweet is crystal malt? I'm trying to create an IPA with a grapefruit like aftertaste (sweet and sour) and I was thinking of using about a 1 lb of crystal malt and about 7 lbs of Liquid Malt Extract. Will that make the beer really sweet or will it just give it a medium caramel like...

So I've decided I must have a brewing addiction. I was a bit short on cash and I needed a second carboy (I've started making two batches at a time). So yesterday, I grabbed about 50 of my old video games and sold them to EBgames so I could get some money. The girl at the store asked if I was...

6 # Dry Malt Extract (Wheat) .5 # Cara-Pils 1 oz Saaz Hops (4.4 oz) @ 60 minutes 1 oz Saaz Hops (2.3 oz) @ 20 minutes 4 # mashed banana's in the primary. 2 # mashed banana's in the secondary This was originally supposed to be a Chocolate Banana Hefeweizen but you can't taste the...

3.3# Liquid Malt Extract (Amber) 3# Dry Malt Extract (Dark) .75# American Chocolate Malt .25# Roasted Barely .5#Dextrose 2oz Willamete Hops (5.8%) 1oz Casade Hops (6%) 2oz 100% cocoa baking chocolate 4oz cherry extract steep Chocolate Malt and Roasted Barley @ 170 for 20 minutes...

How long will hops stay good? I wasn't paying attention last time I was at the home brew store and I bought a couple of extra ounces of hops. Not a big deal but how long can I store them in my fridge?

I was wondering how other people regulate the temperature of their fermenting bucket. I live in an old row home that leaks like a sieve. The windows are the original 1900 wooden ones. You can actually feel a breeze when you walk by them. I rent the place so replacing them is out of the...

I was wondering how much priming sugar should you use in your beer? I made a stout with a starting gravity of 52 (still fermemting so no FG yet). All the kit beers use 5oz priming sugar with 2 cups water. Is this the norm or should I use a little less?

Is there a formula (or rule of thumb) for predicting mouth feel/body or is it a trial and error thing? I've brewed a couple of batches already and would like to try to make my first extract recipe. I want a stout, so I'd like a way to create a heavy bodied beer. I've heard that you should add...

So I cracked open my first bottle of beer today (it's been in the bottle for 2 weeks now) and it basically exploded, sending head rushing out of the bottle. Almost half of the bottle turned into head (22oz bottles so it was a lot of head). Any idea what would have caused it to do this? I...

Just a couple of questions about brewing and such. I've read about the 1-2-3 method. Just so I understand correctly what we're talking about its primary fermentor for 1 week, then secondary fermentor for 2 weeks, finally bottles for 3 weeks. Is that correct? When you go from primary to...

I've a extract plus grain stout kit, that I've added some chocolate too, in an attempt to make a chocolate stout. It's only been in my fermenting bucket for two days and it's no longer producing bubbles. While making it, we sort of forgot to add the malto dextrine when it said to, so we added...

So, I've always wanted to start brewing my own beer and decided a couple of weeks ago to just go out and do it. I bought a Brewers Best starter kit ( came with 2 6.5 gallon plastic fermenters, one with a spigot. A lid, siphon equipment, bottle filler, sanitizer, bottle brush, hydrometer...