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Has anyone tried carbing their beer with a Sodastream machine? Since I have the curiosity of a little kid I'm sure I will be attempting this.

Since I need to add water to my extract kit to make up my 5 gallons and I also need to cool my wort, can I just add cold water and kill two birds with one stone? the directions say to cool wort to 70 degrees then add water to 5 gallons?

I have an American Pale Ale Brewers Best kit. However, I don't like bitter hoppy beers. (this was my only choice from a local shop that caters to wine making) I also have some frozen strawberries I cut up and put in the freezer when they went on sale. Here are my questions: Can I just use half...

So I have just started to enjoy my very first batch of home brew. An American Amber Ale. It has been bottle carbing in the basement for just over 3 weeks. I tried a mesh hop ball purchased from Midwest supply during cooking my wort. After removing the hop ball it appeared that the outside of the...

I bought a 6 pack of Woodchuck's Limited Release Spring Hard Cider, has Maple and Brown sugar flavor, this stuff is delicious!!! Anyone have a clone recipe for this stuff?

I found this article from the Wall Street Journal.............North American brewers are betting on some unusual flavors to convince more consumers to buy beer before liquor, as drinkers increasingly turn to exotic cocktails and other alcoholic beverages. In the latest move, Molson Coors...

I love a good play on words, but seriously? Is it the carbonation or the ingredients? Both? I couldn't take the anticipation and just cracked a bottle of my very first batch after only 5 days in bottle. I enjoy the taste but it has no head. School me here beer people.

So I just bottled my first batch and I'm trying to clean everything. I let my carboy soak in B-Brite cleanser and now it has some horrible white streaks coming up the sides that I can't remove! I tried LD Carlson easy clean but that seems to be the same thing?

About to bottle my very first batch of home brew! Woo hoo! It's an Amber Ale. OG 1.053, put in primary for one week, secondary for 10 days, just took gravity reading and it is 1.011, this gives me 5 1/2% ABV correct? I have bottles sanitizing in dishwasher right now. Gonna transfer from carboy...

2 gallons Motts natural fresh pressed 100% apple juice 2 1/2 gallons pineapple juice 4 lbs corn sugar 2 lbs dark brown sugar OG 1.100 Wyeast 4766 cider So this is what I have going in 6.5 gallon bucket. By day 2-3 airlock was bubbling like crazy with some wonderful fruity smells coming through...

Found these on craigslist $35-$85, could they be applied for beer making? Any ideas?

2 gallons Motts natural fresh pressed 100% apple juice 2 1/2 gallons pineapple juice 4 lbs corn sugar 2 lbs dark brown sugar OG 1.100 Wyeast 4766 cider Would like to hear ideas on what I will end up with.