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So my 2nd AG didn't go so well. I thought it had, but it has been tasting very sub-par for weeks now and I think I've figured it out: I just kegged up a Southern English Brown and it was spot on. While it's not my favorite style, I think it may be the best beer I've made in terms of control...

So my schedule is really busy these days, but I still need to brew. Getting up early to do a 6am brew today wasn't the best option considering I went to bed at 4, and I don't have a solid 5 hour block to set aside for a few days. But I do have a couple 2-3 hour chunks of time spread out...

I had a great brew morning yesterday before class. Had to get up early to heat the strike water but everything went swimmingly and I still made it to my lecture. Anyway, I brewed a stout and decided to bottle this one, seeing as I don't have nitro and do have hundreds of bottles laying...

This just hit me all of a sudden: how do you keep yeast in suspension pint after pint for kegged beer? I've got a witbier about to go into the fridge and I want to know how to get that cloudy yeast character to it. With bottles it wasn't such a problem, but in my experience a perk of kegging...

Hey all, So I am slowly cobbling together my AG gear and the last thing I need is a propane tank. What size do you all use, and about how long does one tank last? Also, where is a good place to get tanks: online or at a store somewhere? I know that they changed the valve standards a few...

So I've got a batch of wit sitting in primary and I'll be racking soon. I plan on kegging it up but I don't know how long to let it age before I start drinking. I did a similar recipe a while ago and bottled it. It didn't taste too hot until months passed in the bottles. I know that these...

I brewed this up a few weeks ago, but I didn't think anything of it until now: For a 5 gallon batch 6# LME 1# specialty grains (I don't have my recipe book on me so I can't be specific) I ended up with an OG of 1.035 @ 74 degrees which corrects to about 1.037, right? Anyway, when I...

So I need to figure out line length for my kegging setup, the thing is that right now I have some 3/16 ID line and some 1/4 ID line, but not enough of either to use the same size line on both kegs. This is the setup: faucets 2 feet above the center of the kegs. The fridge is a solid 38...

My roommate and I finally put the holes in the front of our fridge last night. The faucets are in and we've a nice full keg of Honey Porter sitting there, nice and cold. All that's left to do is give 'er some air, measure out the beer line and have a good time. I've also got another keg...

I'm looking around to find a place to fill my Co2 tank right now and I've come across the issue of grades of gas. I assume beverage grade is what we should all be using, but is there really a difference between grades and where you get them? Cheers, ranch

So I need to replace the gaskets (or O-rings or whatever) on my cornies before I can put some delicious nectar in them. Are these gaskets, namely the large one that seals the lid, of a very specific make? Is it possible to get them at the local HW store or a Home Depot? I don't want to go...

...or ethics, I get the two mixed up all the time. Anyway So I'm getting everything together to start kegging. I got a working fridge for free off Craigslist and my first two corny's came from eBay earlier this week. Here's the big question: I'm trying to save as much on this setup as...

Alright, I'm ready to take the first step towards making my homebrew truly my own creation: recipe formulation. I'm still doing extract and steeping as my method (the next project is finishing the kegerator and then it's onward to AG) so keep that in mind as you look at the basics of my...

Better get these things off my chest and out of my head before tomorrow.... So my buddy and I are going to do a compilation brew. I've never done an AG brew, and he says it's the only way he'll ever go. I asked him if it were much more difficult than extract brewing, and he said it was...

I think I made my frist big slip! This past saturday I had a nice little afternoon brewing up an IPA, and just today I noticed that I got the recipe wrong. The recipe calls for 9 lbs of extract and I only used 6 lbs. How will this affect the final product? My intuitive guess is that it will...

here's the deal: My second batch is in the bottles right now, it's a Belgian Witbier. I bottled last Saturday and decided to check up yesterday. It tasted a little off, but not like a full blown infection (when I first got all my gear, the guy at the brew supply shop had me taste some...