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While I was pushing in the stopper to cap up a batch of brown ale into my secondary, I accidentally pushed the rubber stopper into the carboy. From a sanitation standpoint, would it be a problem to just leave it in the current carboy, or should I rack to a different one? A couple of data...

A friend recently gave me a flour mill and a few bags of grains and I'm trying to figure out what to do with them all. :) I have a few pounds of "Spelt Berries". This appears to be some sort of wheat. I have a malt-based wheat beer recipe I've been thinking about; can I add these as a...

Grains: 4oz. Chocolate Malt 4oz. Biscuit Malt 8oz. Dark Crystal Malt Fermentables: 3.3# Cooper's Light Malt Syrup 1# Munton's Amber Dry Malt Extract 0.5# Malto-Dextrin 1# Belgian Candi Sugar 37.5 oz. Maple Syrup Hops: 1 oz. Fuggles (60 Mins boiling) 1 oz. Fuggles (1 Mins finishing)...

Is there some place for homebrewers to buy custom bottle caps like the big boys use? I'm thinking something that has a custom graphical design on it, etc. Any ideas?

When I racked my first brew, a maple brown ale, to the secondary on Sunday morning, I added in a mixture of about 37 ounces of maple syrup (that had been boiled with 2 cups of water). I think I may have inadvertently aerated the wort when I added the mixture; I just poured it right into the...

I have a wheat beer on deck that I am considering combining with some of our blackberry stores in the freezer. I'm wondering what the preferred/best method of sanitizing these are when I put them in the secondary fermenter. They have plenty of seeds and the like, so there is a de-seeding issue...

I'm thinking of mixing in some maple syrup into a brown ale during as I rack to a secondary. I am wondering if it will effect the alcohol content calculations. I'm guessing so, but not sure if it will be noticeable (I plan to add at least a quart of maple syrup). If it turns out that it...

I'm trying to settle on a couple of things for my maple brown ale. First, it sounds like one of the best ways to get the most maple flavor would be to prime with some Grade B syrup, but I can't seem to find anywhere with a clear recommendation as to just how much to use for 5 gallons of brown...

Read this today and thought I'd share. :) From: http://www.oceancityfools.com/text/jar.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is Your Jar Full? When things in your life seem almost to much to handle, when 24 hours in a...

This is still a work in progress and I'm just guessing on alcohol content and bottling date and all that of course. My 4 year old son came up with the name. :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/jollyrogerbrewing/2379679784/

I'm getting ready to brew a batch of beer using malt extracts (my 2nd brewing attempt) and had a question about chilling the wort after boiling. In Papazian's "The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing", I found a way of cooling wort that doesn't seem to require a wort chiller and I wanted to make...

So, total newbie here. Please be kind. :) I stuck my first batch of freshly bottled Mr.Beer wheat beer directly into the refrigerator after bottling. I decided to try a bottle (after 7 days), the beer was totally flat. Since bottling from the kit, I've bought a little starter brewing kit...