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Hello All! I plan on making a mead for my brother's wedding. He is of Welsh and Irish decent and his future wife is German and Welsh. He grew up in Philadelphia, Pa, she in Woodbury, Mn. Together they live in Phoenix, Az. Baring cold feet, they should be engaged by the end of this...

I found a 10 gallon keg on Ebay. Seller does not list dimensions. http://cgi.ebay.com/Homebrew-beer-keg-10-gallon-ball-lock-stainless-/280624730750?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item415689927e

I recently brewed a Dark IPA. PM Recipe 5 lbs American Two-Row 4 lbs Light DME 1 lb Carafa III 1 lb Crystal 60L 1.75 oz Chinook 60 min 2.00 oz Amarillo 10 min 1.5 oz Simcoe 10 min I split the batch in half and fermented 2.5 gallons with Wyeast 1056 and the other 2.5 gallons with...

Hello all! I am about to make my venture into wine making this fall and cannot seem to make up my mind when it comes to the question of 6.5 and 6 gallon carboys versus 14.25 gallon demijohns for MLF, secondary and ternary fermentation/aging. Can one of the more experienced guys give me their...

In October of 2009, my LHBS hosted a Big Brew. All of us brewed a RIS which was to ferment in 55 gallon bourbon barrels for one month before being transferred to our individual secondarys. I noted in an early post in which I believed we under pitched this batch here...

Came across this while browsing. I am not in a position/need for it but thought someone else might be. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110520822605&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I was planning on brewing a Red Ale kit from my LHBS tomorrow. It will be a 5 gallon extract batch with steeping grains. I was going to split it into two 2.5 volumes and ferment one with Wyeast American Ale 1056 and the other with Wyeast Irish Ale 1084. Then I plan on bottling some of the...

Does anyone have any comments concerning the number of times a standard amber bottle can be reused before it becomes fatigued and weakens? I ask because when I started brewing about a year ago, it was a mad dash to drink and collect as many pop off bottles as I could. I was able to get about...

I have an American Pale Ale in the primary for 3 months now....I know, lazy but life has been hectic. I plan on bottling this weekend and was going to wash the yeast. Any concerns?

......How I've missed you! I got engaged in July and married Jan 2nd. It was a short engagement not due to pregnancy but price. We got a great deal on everything; because it was a short sell, the time of year, and the economy. The trade off was we had to work our tails off to plan a...

Let me start out by saying that the guys at my LHBS are great. They have taught me half of what I know about brewing. The other half I've learned here. A few weeks ago we did a group big brew. The LHBS had four 55 gallon bourbon barrels in which we were going to ferment a stout in. They...

I attempted to prime my last beer with gyle. I have failed before I even made it to bottling day. I stored some of my unfermented wort in beer bottles to be used on bottling day to carb the beer; the bottles were capped just as you would when you bottle beer. The bottles became...

So last night I was drinking and I decided to make a starter for this weekends brew. When I went to look for some DME I found I had none. But I had priming sugar....so in an inebriated stroke of genus, I made a 1 quart starter with 4oz of priming sugar. Any thoughts?

There is something in my beer.... Right now I have a Belgian Saison fermenting in a 5 gallon glass carboy. I have it upstairs with a heating pad wrapped around it in an attempt to keep it in the 80F-85F range. I often swirl my fermenters to get the yeast that has settled back up into the...