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I've got the second batch of mead I ever made aging for 2 years and it is still terrible. Burning, fuel, bad. Used joes quick grape mead recipe, but with peach mango mead juice instead of grape. what I've learned since, made a bunch of mistakes. No nutrients Heated must to boil Left a...

My brother is going to come help with a brew day this weekend. He wants to brew a Bass ale clone. I've got a recipe, but need a yeast. WLP023 is the recommended, but I wasn't planning on buying more yeast for a while since I recently started propagating a few strains. The closest i have to use...

So I have 4 kegs but can only fit 2 in my current kegerator. I ended up tapping my russian imperial stout early, while I am waiting on my IPA to finish. When the IPA is ready, I was going to take the RIS out and put that keg back in the cellar to store. Would it do anything negative to take...

Well a cold brew day didn't quite go as planned. I had an expected OG of about 1.065, and actually came in at 1.046 :confused: First, what to do with this beer. It is going to be good, but I had planned for a bigger beer and would like a higher ABV. Was thinking about adding some DME into...

Hello. I have 2 sets of bottles that were previously cleaned and sanitized (about 6 months ago) and have now been stored. The first set was stored in closed cardboard beer boxes. The second set were stored upside down on a drying rack in the open air. Before using them to bottle, do I...

On father's day, after the bar b q with my dad and my son and some friends, I made a Russian Imperial Stout. Was fun end of the afternoon, and all was well with the mash, brew, and cool down. So I go to get my yeast starter that was in a jug with sanitized tinfoil over the top. I had...

I would like to upgrade to kegging eventually, and figured I would pick up some of the equipment as I found it on sale or on craigslist. Well, I just got an email for 50% off 5 gallon Ball lock kegs from Midwest supples. retail is $49.99, so it would be about $25 each. What do these...

I am bottling a batch of Northern Brewer's Winter Warmer (link below) and not sure how much priming sugar to use. They call the style: "British/American Strong Ale, Irish and Scottish Ales" so using various calculators I am getting between 2.3oz and 3.5oz dextrose for bottling. Anyone else...

I heard some horror stories from some people with sanitizing issues, and now I am paranoid I didn't sanitize my bottles well enough on my first batch. I just bottled last week, and here is what I did: Had old bottles, mostly summit and new belgium. Soaked them in oxyclean solution for about...

Just bottles my first batch, and most of my bottles are from Summit Brewery. They are a little shorter and fatter than an average, and have a slightly different lip. Wondering if anyone has used these before and if they had any problems? The bottle caps all seemed to go on OK for the most...

Just brewed my second extract batch. Started out with Smooth Nut Brown kit from Midwest http://www.midwestsupplies.com/smooth-nut-brown.html One thing I changed, other than upgrading the yeast, is to add honey to the wort. I have a 5 gallon pot to boil the wort, so I need to add water to...

Been lurking around here without registering for quite some time, and now that I have my first batch in primary thought I would post and say thanks for the advice I've already received! Don't think I screwed anything up too bad, and it's bubbling today so somethings going right. The...