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I plan on having a long day Saturday brewing two batches and bottling another one. I use a one step sanitizer and I was wondering if I should change out the solution that I mix in a large bucket after every batch I do? I was just planning on bottling first and sanitizing all my bottles and in...

I've got a bunch of ingredients coming tomorrow that I will make a couple batches out of. I'm going out of town this weekend and after I brew my first one, I'll have to wait a week or so until I'm able to move it into my secondary so I can brew my next batch. I just wanted to verify that I store...

My girlfriend gave me a card yesterday for my birthday (which is this Saturday if anyone wants to send me a case of their best home brew) ;) ....and the card read: Our lager Which art in barrels, Hallowed be thy drink, Thy kegdom come, I fill thee mug, At home, as in the tavern. Give us this...

This will be my third batch, and I did a little time researching last night to try and pick out ingredients. So far I've only had a couple kits that I worked with, but this time I wanted to try and pick out the ingredients myself. An Irish Ale I'm calling Foxhound. I used the help of BeerTools...

I've been looking around for companies that can customize your glasses for you. I specifically would like my brewery logo on it and most of the companies I saw only did etching with no color. Most of the ones that did do color had an order minimum of 72 or 144. I mean, I drink a lot...but not so...

My girlfriend and I brewed Friday night and by Monday after work I still didn't have any fermentation...and gravity was still at the OG measurement. My first batch refused to take off too until I repitched. I don't know what in the world I'm doing wrong because I'm doing the exact same procedure...

As I'm sitting here waiting for my primary to show me some activity (which it still hasn't yet after 36 hours...but I'm being patient), I started thinking about what a lot of people recommend around here. Some say "don't worry, you may never even see any bubbling activity in the airlock. But...

Just brewed my second batch last night with the girlfriend (she was interested in learning). It was a bavarian wheat kit that I added coriander seeds to. We crushed them up as much as we could, but that was exhausting...I hope it didn't need to be too finely crushed. A pepper grinder or...

I've got the Bavarian Wheat kit coming from Midwest Supplies. It comes with grain and a grain bag...and 2 oz. of hops. The directions suggest putting them in a nylon boiling bag, but would I be able to just use the reuse the grain bag after steeping the grains for the hops? My other thought was...

Just a week after opening the bottle to my first batch I've already ordered a kit for my second batch. I was just waiting to get some more bottles collected before I proceeded so that when it came to bottling time I had enough. This next kit is going to be a Bavarian Wheat from Midwest. I've...

Okay, so I popped open my first beer last night. And fittingly I decided that day on a name and logo: Red Lab Brewery I haven't made any labels up for this first batch...but since it's not really my recipe and just the recipe that came with the kit, I can't really consider it "my beer." It's...

Hi all- I received a basic starter kit as a Christmas gift. I was so excited to start that I didn't hesitate and went out to purchase a few more things that weren't included in the kit that I knew I would need (ended up spending more than the gift/kit was worth...but I've been planning on...

Hi all... Just received a basic brewing kit as a Christmas gift and dove right in head first this evening. I just locked up the fermenter a couple hours ago! I'm hoping I did everything correct even with the basic recipe I used. Everything seemed so overwhelming at first. Anyway, just...