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On Saturday I brewed two beers, as usual, the first an IPA, 1.078 with 4 oz of hops, chilled with wort chiller to 80, put in sanitized carboy and covered with sanitized foil and left to chill in my fridge. The 2nd a hef went through the same process. Normally it isn't a rainy day, but that day...

I've seen these for a while in the Austin homebrew shop, and have always been curious about them. I'm really tempted to pick some up and just roll the dice. Anyone had experience with them before? I'm also tempted just to get the magic hop dust packs and really throw caution to the wind. If...

I've been searching for this for a couple of days on line, but haven't found the response I'm looking for, per se. I have a blonde ale finishing up and wanted to add some kind of fruit to it to give some to my wife, she is not a fan of beer really but will drink fruity beers and dos Equis with...

I do 3 gallon full boils mashing in my bottling bucket with a large brain bag and would like to upgrade. I have a keggle, but have yet to use it and set it up. Things I need are a cooler mash tun, grain mill, hydrometer would be nice, keggle sight glass, brewsmith (free version ran out, but I...

I see beer very differently now that I have a small idea of what goes into making it, time, effort, creativity, etc. are there any beers that you initially snubbed that you have gone back to and had a eureka moment with? My two big ones are no real surprise: dfh 60 minute and stone levitation...

I've been brewing since August, just started partial mashing and, being in Texas, have had moderate success with temp control. It's been cool lately, 65 in the house, and the last three beers have been great, and it's got me thinking how much better my beers could get if I had a better way to...

I made an amber with white labs 00024. Fermented around 65 in a swamp cooler in Texas, it's hot here. Primed with coffee and priming sugar. Been bottled 3 weeks and it strangely isn't awful. I'm just curious if I leave it in the fridge for a month or so if it will lose its fruity characteristics...

I'm doing my fourth extract batch and I want to experiment a little bit. I have two vials of yeast left over that I got as a precautionary measure, oktoberfest lager and Hefeweizen ale, both white labs, and I wanted to experiment a little bit and make two random batches with maybe an extract...

Hi all, I recently got some stuff on Craigslist, which included 3 glass carboys. They were in a barn and hadn't been used in a while and needed a good deep cleaning. I have cleaned one and it came out spotless but the other two have what appear to be water lines near the top that is difficult to...

I just started brewing, a week and a half ago, and just yesterday I upgraded to 5 gallons from one gallon and got two extract kits from Austin Homebrew supply (Roggenbier and an Oktoberfest). Im really interested in sticking with the German purity law and I was curious where Irish Moss fits into...