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Hi, I'm relatively new but I've got a couple of dozen successful batches under my belt. In fact all my attempts so far have yielded tasty beer. One kind of beer I really like is the "Brooklyn Brew shop" "Everyday IPA". I pretty much brew another batch of that as soon as I've drank up all of the...

Hey, I was visiting my Dad and Step-Mom this Christmas. Dad was looking for a "Bodum" which I found out is just a brand name for a "french press" coffee maker. You know, the kind where you dump the coffee and boiling water in a glass cylinder and then when it's done you press a close-fitting...

Hi guys. I'm relatively new to brewing and still trying to avoid silly mistakes. My friend gave me a smack-pack of wyeast belgian stout yeast. I am making some stout, so I thought I'd use it. The trouble, I just realised, is that the smack-pack is good for 5 gallons and I am only making two...

Hi guys, I'm just finishing the "sparging" of my porter right now. It's going great, except work just called to remind me of a meeting I totally forgot about!!! It's 5:42 right now and the meeting is at 6:30. Is it possible to finish sparging, put a lid on the pot and leave it for an hour...

After several successes with some extract beers, I ordered some all-grain kits from the Brooklyn Brew Shop. I'm making the "everyday IPA" right now. I'm just typing this as I wait a couple of minutes to go stir the mash some more... So far, so good. The mash went from being oatmeal-y to being...

Well, I decided to buy some nice "pop top" bottles to put my beer in. I just opened the fourth bottle that didn't carbonate. I brewed a pilsener a while ago, and the first two that I opened were completely flat. All the other ones were perfectly fizzy. Then, I opened a bottle of stout I brewed a...

I just wanted to share some good news about the beer kit my wife bought me for christmas. I just opened a bottle of "St Patrick's Irish stout" that I brewed about six weeks ago. I used the normal 2 cans of malt but also added a package of that "booster" stuff that came with the fermenter as...

Hi everybody. This Christmas my wife gave me a "mr beer" kit. She also ordered several of their "all malt" kits, and I have just made the second one. I know serious hobbyists outgrow the little Mr. Beer fermenter and recipes, but I have been fascinated by the whole process. The first batch, a...