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Ugh... After years I'm still SUCH a noob! Especially when it comes to recipes! As the subject indicates, I have some leftover grain/hops/yeast from a previous brew day and I'd love to throw it all together to make a "passable" light ale. I'm not one for hoppy pale ales but I don't mind a...

So I'm back to brewing after a couple years and had a decent brew day last week. I did BMs ale version of an Oktoberfest and the fermenter samples taste great! Anyway, when I left last left off, I was kegging without much issue... I needed to exchange my co2 tank as the one I had was empty. The...

I'm baaaaaaack :-) Just when I got a decent brew system going the Lord blessed me and my wife with a little boy.... And then another 20 months later. Needless to say, brewing took a backseat (unfortunately) well my youngest is now walking and my passion for brewing has been kept under wraps...

QUESTION STARTS IN 2nd PARAGRAPH!! :-D Hey HBT! It's good to be back after about a 9 month hiatus. My wife and I had a son 1 year ago and brewing, unfortunately, had to take a backseat. Worst of all, I didn't make it on the forum very often! I'm back to brewing and had a smashing success...

It's been almost a year since I've been active on this board. My wife and I had our first child last October and it has kept me from brewing all the while. What really stinks is I got some cool brewing stuff for Christmas last year and haven't been able to brew with it. The bug is hitting me...

Alright.. my first AG is scheduled for tomorrow and I'd love for you all to put your eyes on it before I go through with things. I wanted to fly sparge but read that it's not a great idea with a stainless braid in a rectangular MLT... so batch sparging for me. The starter has been made...

Hey all... Well I finally went to the salvage yard and bought a keg to make my first keggle! My cousin hooked me up by cutting out the top (took about 5 minutes with a "roto zip" with the angle grinder attachment. approx 2 cutting disks were used.) Now I'm going to drill the hole where I'll...

Title pretty much says it all... I got a Keg today from the local salvage yard!! I want to do a weldless valve system in and was wondering if I could pick up everything I need at the local hardware store. Anybody done this?? Drawbacks? BTW... I've already seen most of the websites that...

so it's 8:30 and I just racked into the bottling bucket... A smile on my face and my bottles nice and sanitary. I went to grab my capper and... HORROR!! We recently moved and the capper is lost. Are the yeasties going to eat the sugar too much before I can get everything in the bottle...

Hey folks.... I haven't been around for a while... I'm a musician and I've recently gotten a lot of recording gear. I've been working on that exclusively for a couple months. I'm ready to get back to my brewing!! One of the things holding me back is a large enough brew kettle. I want to...

I already posted in the DIY forum, but the thread was so long that I don't know if anybody is seeing the post. I don't mean to be impatient, but I'm going to stop by Lowe's on the way home... Here is my post from the other thread: I've read about how to make the round MLT with the...

So... I've had my first brew in bottles for about 2 weeks. I tasted one and it is really good! I felt so proud! It definitely needs more time to get better, but the carbonation was good and it was definitely worth drinking. 1. My first question: There is definitely a lot of "stuff" in...

This is my second brew and everything went pretty well on brewday. It's an AHS American Wheat. It's been in the fermenter for about 72 hours and I haven't seen any airlock activity. My wife said she thought she heard something from the "fermenting room" yesterday but even if the airlock was...

I'm going to be bottling at some point over the next few days... It's my first brew and I didn't have the cash to get a secondary yet. Are there any tricks to "filter" some of the crud out that is sitting in my primary right now? I'll be going straight to the bottling bucket. I've had...

I just received a kit from AHS and I've got some time set aside to brew... I'm probably an idiot, but I thought it came with dry yeast... It didn't. It is White Labs WLP320. The bottle says that it's "Pitchable Yeast" and that I don't need a starter unless the OG is 1.070... I also got the...

I'm still only 90 some hours into my first fermentation and this is my 3rd new thread... haha! So, I've read a lot about taking readings with a hydrometer and that people taste test their beer to see how things are going? Am I too early in the process to do this? What kind of tastes am I...

I am 48 hours into my first homebrew (I've been reading about it for a few weeks)... I can't wait to try and make all kinds of different brews... I think it would be a neat idea, being that I don't have a lot of money, to give my brother some of my homebrewed beer as a Christmas present...

FRESH NEWB here! Started my first brew last night. Bought a kit from a local store for a "light American Ale"... I read "how to brew" on the website of the same name, so we'll see how it goes... Well... While I'm here, I might as well make my first post worth while! My one concern...