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Well I went to bottle my first brew today. It was a Morebeer.com American Amber Ale extract kit. When I took a hydro reading and tasted it back after about 1.5weeks in fermenter it tasted a little sour, but not horrible. (it also upset my stomach which I handed off as yeast) Today, 3 weeks after...

Ok, I have been searching around the forums for a long time now (my boss must really hate this forum). I am going to bottle my first brew today and have been looking at what to brew next. I think I'm going to go with Northern Brewers Cream Ale Extract kit. I want to do some experimenting with it...

Has anyone trained their dog to walk over to the fridge, open the door, grab a beer, and bring it to you? You know the movie Shooter? Just like that? I cannot imagine a more epic trick a dog could do. I have a young 8month old Shiba Inu and she doesn't listen for ****, but if she ever learns...

Alright, so it is finally getting warm here in Iowa... Good for golf, bad for brewing. I don't plan on having my apartments ac set at 65F all the time, so I am looking into some chilling ideas. I've read plenty of ideas for altering a mini fridge and such, but I love my mini fridge, and I'll...

Ok so I've read the forums, the FAQ's and there is a lot of good ideas. I finished my first brew last night and it is not hopefully at home fermenting, (as I troll the forums at work). Now I have to make decisions on fermenting and secondary fermenting? My beer is currently in a 6.5gal...

Hey so I'm working on my first brew. Things are going well, but I tried to make a dry yeast starter but there is no activity like I expected. This is what I did: I boiled a cup of water and cooled it to 97F then added and stirred in the Nottingham dry yeast a little bit. Then boiled a small...