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In a batch of home made soda no less. I made a batch of Ginger Beer, carbed with champagne yeast for my wife and used a few smith-wicks bottles that I had in the cabinet. I had already used them once before with a low carbed brown ale with no problems, so i figured they were ok. The soda has...

Just poured my Irish Red and it looked so good I wanted to share it with all of you. Cheers! :mug:

Its great when work and hobby get to mingle. Got called out to Firehouse Brewery in San Diego, to take care of a bee problem. Grant and Brian at the brewery were gracious enough to offer a guided tour of the place. Firehouse has reciently moved into a larger building and are working hard at...

I've seen it on the shelf at the local Wild Oats store for weeks and finaly picked up a 6er of AB's Redbridge. While it was not something that I'd drink on a regular basis, it was a good try at a product aimed at a specialty target market. I think I would buy it again. How about you?

Getting my gear set up to start kegging and a friend gave me an old cylinder. Nice big steel one. Problem is he does not remember for sure if it was for co2 or for nitrogen. He is fairly sure it was his nitrogen tank. How can I tell them apart since there are no tags or stickers on the cylinder...

Man, I go away for one weekend and what happens? The whole darn city catches fire! I mean, come on! Can't the people here do anything right when I'm not around? :mad: On the real side; Things around here in San Diego are pretty tense. 250k people evacuated, hundreds of houses gone, and no...

Getting my parts together for my first keg set up. Im planning a chest freezer set up with the co2 tank mounted outside and 4 corny kegs in the chest. I want to go with two taps so i can have 2 kegs conditioning while Im serving the other two. My question is which size cylinder should I go...

SWMBO has asked me to come up with an Alcoholic Root Beer. I'm a little stumped. Now I've found recipes for Beer with root beer flavor and recipes for Root Beer Soda. The stumper is that SWMBO does not like Beer period. I've managed to get her to sample a good dozen beers since we have been...

I've read a number of threads and a few articles refering to the different flavors created by useing different yeasts. But I have not been able to find any refrence material that lists what flavors the different commercial strains cause. If you guys have any input I'd be all ears. What kind of...

Near perfect Saterday night. Stayed in with SWMBO, and talked her into being my assistant for brewing my second batch. She still won't drink it but she says she loves the way the kitchen smells. :) So I cracked open a bottle of my first batch to enjoy while brewing the second. :cool: My basic...

So, everyone is crazy about Hops. More hops, extra hops, extra extra hops. So what would we get without the hops? What comes out the carboy when you brew with little or no hops? Just a crazy question thats been itching at me. Anyone have experience brewing with out? I had a special treat a few...

OK, Ive loked around the boards and have yet to find a simple answer for this one. How do I know if my HB is carbonating in the bottle? Aside from cracking one open and seeing whats what. Ive had my first batch in the bottle for a week now, and have pulled a bottle out of the closet a couple...

Hello to everyone and thank you for all the great information I've found on the boards. I brewed my first batch of beer just two weeks ago and my brother in law and I used alot of the tips we found on this site to do it. Beer has been in the bottle for a week now and I for one can't wait to get...