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    Aquarium Silicone Tube

    Is it ok to use aquarium silicone tube for siphoning when brewing?
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    Plantain beer

    I searched plantain beer and there wasn't much information and what people were talking about was to add some plantains into a malted barley beer, not a plantain only beer. I am going to try to make plantain only beer. What I was thinking to let a plantain ripen as much possible to convert the...
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    Effectiveness of bleach water vinager

    How much time does the 1 oz. per 5 gallons of water BWV solution stay effective for sanitizing?
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    Microorganisms in ginger root

    If you put some ginger is water with sugar it will start fermenting. What are microorganisms in the ginger, probably several yeasts, but are there some bacterias or other things that might consume sugar or the alcohol produced by the yeast?
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    Making a hydrometer

    I dont want to buy a hydrometer, so I was thinking of making one. My idea is to take a straw, heat one end and close it, then put some sort of weight inside the straw. To make the marks I would put the straw in distilled water and where it floats that would be 1. Then I make a mark were the one...
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    Beer bottle cups for beer

    Has anyone cut beer bottles to make cups for drinking beer?
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    First try at making ginger beer

    This after noon am going to make ginger beer with this recipe: -2 oz. grated ginger -4 tsp. brown cane sugar -30 oz. water -4 oz. lemon juice -1/16 tsp. bread yeast per bottle (2x 14oz soda bottle) -Put water and ginger in a pot let it heat under boiling for 5-10 minutes -Filter the grated...
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    Dry ginger beer

    The recipes for ginger beer I've read say that you put a lot of sugar and cool it to stop the fermentation if your carbonating with yeast. Has anyone got good resulst putting only enough sugar to carbonate and getting a dry ginger beer?
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    Bean beer

    Where I live there are a lot of beans, anyone think that it would be a good idea to malt some beans and try to make bean beer with no barley?
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    Experimental apple cider

    I took a big apple, cut it into chunks and put in the blender with some water. I added water until it was more fluid, then I filtered out the pulp. The result was two cups of watery apple juice, so I added some brown sugar till it was acceptably sweet. Then in a sanitized bottle I put the juice...
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    Carbonated iced tea

    Has anyone tried this? I made a tea using a bag of Twinnings four red fruits and another of strawberry mango infusion in 16 oz. of water and added 1 tsp. of brown sugar. Then I let it cool, put it in a 16 oz. soda bottle and put about one 16th of a teaspoon of bread yeast. I let it carbonate for...
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