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Hey I was just checking to see if anyone was heading to this in the Chicagoland area. It's perfect that its at union station for us burb people. I'm gonna head down to the 1-4 session and take the train from libertyville. Anyone else gonna do is? Would be cool to meet others in the area who...

:tank:I just had a quick question for everyone out there in beer land. I have been reading a lot about brewing and have finished palmer's book and also yeast by White and Zainasheff.. I feel really good the more and more I brew, but the only thing I still strive to understand all are the...

So I just need some clarification as i am a little confused. I know rule of thumb is about 1.25 quarts of water per lbs for grains. I have two so it's 2.50 quarts of water. My questions is after you steep that is it ok to add room temperature purified gallons of water (doing a 5 gal extract)...

So i have decided to venture away from the kits and follow a recipe. I was curious to know what people thought about it or if it should be critiqued. It's for an APA from a friend of mine: malt 1 lbs 2-Row .5 lbs Munich .5 lbs Caramel 40 6 lbs of extra light dried malt extract Hops...

I was just curious what people thought about using twist off bottles to put their beer in and cap. I have a handheld capper and the first two batches i have done i have just used twist off bottles and capped them. They seemed fine in terms of taste. I didn't have any break on me or anything...

I had another question about this. My other thread was talking about the OG not being at what it was suppose to be and from the advice i got it (and another good thread on here) it was because the topping off the 2 gallons of water at the end. My question then is, is it ok to boil 5 gallons of...

Hello Everyone! I just had a quick question about reading the OG.. I did an extract kit for a Belgian and it said the og would be around 1.08 and it was around 1.04. The reason why i believe it was read that way was because someone had mentioned that topping off with water can skewer the OG...

Hello Everyone! So I went to the local brew store to do a recipe but didnt feel quite comfortable in asking for a lot of things because i didn't know half of the stuff that was on there. I asked the guy but he was by himself and the other guy was doing a demonstration on extract brewing for...

I have been reading this book from how to brew from john palmer and i wonder if anyone out there is familiar with the equation below. More specifically, its been driving me crazy all morning trying to figure out where the 7/10 came from. Does anyone know? I have posted below the quote from the...

I have been reading this book from how to brew from john palmer and i wonder if anyone out there is familiar with the equation below. More specifically, its been driving me crazy all morning trying to figure out where the 7/10 came from. Does anyone know? I have posted below the quote from...

Hello Everyone! I have been coming to this site for the past 6 months to better understand how to brew and so far I have made two batches. The first one wasn't all that good, but the second one has a pretty good taste to it. I think carbonation is my biggest issues because it seems that...