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sorry if this is not supposed to be here but the contact form gives me errors when there was no error. anyway, how do i use an avatar? when i go to edit it under the right heading it will not let me uncheck the no avatar box. thank you

So was this an oops? After ferment i wanted a wee bit more spice so i added the powder right to the keg. Is this a bad thing?

Ok peeps got my pin lock set up from adventures in homebrewing. I got the economy set, im not afraid if cleaning. The keg and tubes and poppets came clean but the ports still have residue in them. Ive soked in oxyclean but nadda. Any hints? Other then this the whole set up caist 143 plus...

So I carb a pale ale in party pigs the usual way. Im going to a party sun. Its not ready. Tomorrow im getting my keg set up. Can I put it in the keg and carb it the rest of the way? Then I was gonna trans to mason jars for a little redneck flare. Coming from pa and all. I did put one in the...

ok i have downsized from ag set up and keggle to BIAB set up of sorts. heres what i got 7.5 turkey fryer 5 gallon pot and soon to be bag and pulley from wilserbrewer. so i will be doing a pale ale i have done before. 12-13 pounds of grain and some 4-5 oz of hops. don't have the recipe on...

Well its time to shut down the beer making. Had fun but just no time. After the kids grow up ill be back. 1 keggle with a 3piece stainless steal valve and a heavy duty tube screen 1 70 qt cooler with a brass ball valve Refractometer Candy thermometer 2 five gallon bucket 3L beaker 1 5g glass...

So lets say at around 30 min of a 50 min boil you started to run low. By 43 min it was dead never came down past 190. Thinking im ok but what is the real issue with this. It was a stout with no adds other then in the beginning

So I would rather drink a warm young homebrew then a store bought beer. Is this spot on or am I doing a disjustice to my beer. What I mean is. A week in the bottle and im good. Pale ale and even my stout. Who else does this? I just find it nice and fresh. Even less carb is better. Not flat, but...

So I opened up my week old chocolate vanilla stout that I dumped on a pale ale yeast cake and found this. Is it just crust? Thats what I think but who knows. Gonna put it in a carboy to clear.

Is there a way to bottle to a growler from a party pig and still retain some carb. I am gravity pooring an ale to mimic a cask set up but I also want to hand out some. Thanks

So my pumpkin Ale had taste last week and now it's gone. When I bottled it I added more spices to kick it up. I bottled in 22 Oz bottles. It seems the bigger bottles are hit and miss. Now it's just a little pumpkin taste, starch taste, And that's all. In the bottle 3weeks.

ok so would u put a spa on top of this or even harvest it? or would the pumpkin spice come through.

how on earth do you take a beersmith file and put it into beersmith mobile? or is there no way. just to clear it up i downloaded a beersmith file from here. i dont have the desktop version because i have the mobile one, iphone. when i go to open it on my iphone it wants to use dropbox. thanks

so I made a Hefe drone the recipe page. I had no zest peeler so I scraped the zest off the pith. now after conditioning its a bit sour and harsh. although I can drink it I was thinking of ways to sweeten it in the glass. maybe some orange in he glass at serving? what do u think.

ok I was going to make a yeast starter, first one, from a harvested cake. I put it on the counter fri night to warm it up to use sat afternoon. well, a bad reaction sent me to the Er for 6 hours. now being sun, brew day, can I just pitch this with no starter made? it's going into a pumpkin ale...

ok this is my first time I used a carboy to ferment so I don't know if this looks right. I used danstar Munich. I rehydrated as per the instructions and pitched at 70 degrees. looks like a lot of dead yeast in the bottom. this after 8 hours at 68-70 degrees. what do ya think?

ok i am putting together a stout for my HD dealership christmas party. trying to get this in early enough so if it doesnt come out like i want it i have time to switch. here it goes: marris otter flaked barley chrystal 40 chocolate malt cascade 1.oz safe ale s-04 had nice luck with this one...

Well im looking to start a stout for christmas. but i was wondering if you can add whatever to any style beer to mess around or does certain ones work better, and others just dont . also when do you add? is it after prim ferm in the secondary or can i leave it to the primary the whole time...

well i have done 2 ag brews. both times i have had bad gravity readings. the hydrometer straight to the bottom it seems. but my one pale all came out great with one taste a week in to condition. so i bought a refractometer for the second brew. its a british bitter, during the boil i got 6...

i want to cask into either the mini kegs or the plastic 1 gallon cubes on northern brewer. my question is if i only want to due half the batch or 2 gallon cube and 3 gallon bottle, how would i figure out the carbonation, or should i do a 10g batch, although its the first time with this recipe...