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OK, so I got a copy of BrewSmith for xmas, and have been toying with it some, but I got this wild hair to make a beer flavored with Old Bay Seasoning (if you're East Coast, you know what I'm talking about). If you have no clue what I'm talking about: Old Bay So, after considering styles...

So, a few weeks back, I brewed a Sweet Stout (from extract), and had the mad hair to try it with coffee. So, I had the decision to split the batch, and rack to 2 3gallon Better Bottles, one with cold-pressed coffee, and one as per the recipe. I'll let it live there for 2 weeks. I built a SoFC...

This is a side project i'm looking at getting into, but i'm looking to gauge interest. How would you, as a homebrewer, like to be able to have custom printed bottle labels? Use them for a special brew or something you make regularly, or just generic labels with your name on them and a logo. Make...

I've built a Fermentation Chamber recently, and have been upgrading it over the last few days. Clean coat of paint and some wheels go a long way :) I've also scored a bucket of Chalkboard Paint, and decided to make the front of the chamber a chalkboard to jot notes on. I was going to stencil...

Alright, on my 3rd beer, a Brown Ale Kit, i got everything going well, finally remember to top the water level off to 5.5 gallons to account for trub (I kept getting higher gravities due to not enough water), and put in the fermentation chiller. Things are looking good, airlock in place, wort is...

Last night was hectic, but I finally got everything brewed and its in the fermenter now. A Basic Nut Brown Ale was pretty easy, but trying to use a new propane burner, and chill with a newly acquired immersion chiller was a new step. The Good: the immersion chiller went from boil temps...

OK, so I brew my 3rd extract kit on Sunday, and had an idea to steep my grains in a cooler & about 1.5 gal of water at 165. The cooler would probably maintain temp better than my propane burner at that temp, then I could return the tea to the boil kettle and start my hop boil I've got a...

So, I got Beer Captured by Tess & Mark Szamatulski for fathers day ( i have a great wife and son :), but I haven't heard anything really about the book itself. The recipes in it seems pretty straightforward, but I wanted the opinion of anyone who has used recipes in this book...

So, the Kolsch recipe i'm using provided 1 cup of dextrose. when i used the priming sugar calc on Northern Brewer (http://www.northernbrewer.com/priming-sugar-calculator/), it recommended for a Kolsch to use 3/4 cups of dextrose. That would be all well and good, except i'm using honey to...

So, i've got my second beer, a Kolsch extract recipe, happily chilling in my SoFC i built (see design here)! I don't have much airlock activity, but i'll check back in the morning to see what we're up to. I also did the whole brew with just tap water, as opposed to filtered. Curious to see if it...

I was thinking of drilling a 1" hole in the lid of my fermenter, then plugging with a rubber stopper (like you'd use for a carboy, but without the hole). That way, i can pull the plug, theif out a sample for reading, and reduce exposure to air. This also gives me a way to see if krausen has...

I just recently got started brewing with my brother (who lives in SLC), and he bought me my brewing starter kit from Norther Brewer for xmas. I got all the extras and brewed an extract kit Amber Ale that has now been finished. I was very happy with it and am now looking for my next kit with my...

I saw the design for this a while back and thought it would be a good beginner project to allow me to brew in the summer (NC is already 80). The design is great and clearly works, but I wanted something a little thinner that wouldn't have as big of a footprint, and I wanted something sturdier to...

So, I have built a modified "Son of Fermentation Chiller" (pics up once complete) and have wired up a home thermostat to control the fans' on and off cycles. The issue is, the thermostat will "click" on heating and when its too "cold", will turn on the fan. In cooling mode, I can slide the...