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For the history, see this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=476646 Since I'm currently fermenting my third batch of it and everyone who's brewed it seems to like it, I figured I'd drop the recipe here. My latest revision of the recipe is as follows: Steeping Grains: .75...

Bought a 6 cu ft Igloo kegerator this week. I'll convert the guts to Ball Lock eventually but I'm currently trying it out with a local beer (Waterloo IPA). So far everything works alright. I'm suspecting that in more recent models they've fixed the temperature settings. The first thing I...

Hey guys, When I first started homebrewing, I started with a Mr. Beer setup. The four or so brews I did with it all had a really "tart" flavour to them. When I started brewing Extract with specialty grains, that flavour went away and I was making (to me) pretty good beer. However, my...

I've got a sanitation question - I had to move a lot of stuff out of my house and into storage because I was listing it for sale. One of those things was my fermenter. It was cleaned (or so I thought) before I put it in storage. I just got it out yesterday and the inside smells like sour...

I have a Weissbier that I was going to bottle tonight. When I pulled a sample to check FG stability, there were white specks floating in it. I opened the top of my fermenter and lo and behold, a bunch of oily crap with white clumps on the top. Is there anything I can do to save this beer...

Hey guys, I brewed up an all DME Weissbier on May 28th to use up some half-oz packages of Hops I had kicking around my freezer. I did a 3 gallon boil with top-up water. Plugging my recipe into Beersmith gave me an expected OG of 1.052 and an expected FG of 1.011. The Brewers...

I got to visit York, UK again this past Spring and at the smallest pub in York, the Blue Bell, had a Vanilla Porter that blew me away. By local(ish) Brass Castle Brewery, Bad Kitty Vanilla Porter was one of the best brews I tried while I was away. Once I returned to Canada I emailed the...

I've been waiting for this one for a while. At the beginning of March I brewed an extract-based clone recipe of Aventinus, one of my favourite beers. I bottled it after returning from a trip to Germany at the beginning of April, and tried my first sample bottle last night, A/B'ing it with a...

Hey everyone, trying this brew: http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/688/muddy-pig-oatmeal-stout I substituted a WYEAST Irish Ale Smack Pack for the yeast listed, and added 3 sticks of cinnamon at the 6 minute point of the boil. Now...it's already done and I should have likely asked...

On August 5th, I brewed the Westmalle Tripel clone from BYO's 250 clones recipe book. I did the partial extract with grains option as I'm not set up for AG just yet. Bottled on August 25th, left in my cold room to bottle condition until today...10 weeks down the line. I just cracked the first...

Well, after a few Mr. Beer kits over the past couple of years I moved to my first partial-grain ingredients kit: The Brewer's Best Smoked Porter. A light, summery beer to be sure. Yeah, I should have thought "summer" instead of "oboy, smoke!" in the shop. At any rate, everything seems to...

Hi there - new to the site, though I've read the forums for a while. I got a Mr. Beer kit from my wife for Christmas one year, but refills are hard to find up here. I also found after a few batches (their IPA, a Coopers Stout) that the half-size fermenting keg and lack of kit choices wasn't...