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Our local homebrew club did a massive bulk order of used corny kegs so I bought 5 + new rings since they were so cheap. I have them at home now and am super anxious to use them.....the main blocking point is that I really don't know what else I need. Here is what I have: 5 Corny kegs 5 sets of...

I got some liquid lager yeast from midwest supplies and, although I ordered the ice pack, it's so hot and humid and here in the midwest that the ice was melted and the yeast was warm. My question is how important is it to keep the liquid yeast cool? Should I even try to pitch it? I don't have...

--edit: the subject should be *scottish* ale, not scotch ale. I've been working on a bourbon barrel scottish ale and am about ready to rack onto my bourbon and oak chips. So, the original plan was go rack onto 750ml fo bourbon and some amount of oak cubes. Since the brewing of the...

Does anyone know if there is a Home Brew club around the Purdue (Lafayette/West Lafayette, IN) area? nb

I made a 3 gallon batch of apfelwein using Nottingham and, because I needed the carboy for something and didn't have enough bottles yet to bottle the batch, I racked it into another carboy (and onto 32oz of 100% raspberry juice). It's gravity was about 1.001 upon racking and I saw no signs of...

I did my own little concoction of a recipe as my last brew but I'm not sure what the target gravity should be. The BrewBlog software gives me a target for a cream ale, bu tI added a bunch of lactose, vanilla, etc into it so I'd really like to get an experienced brewers input and to get some...

My dad was in the beer of the month club for 5-7 years in the late 80's - early 90's (I don't remember the exact dates) and apparently kept every bottle they sent (after consuming the contents =). He recently offered them up to me for bottling homebrew since I hate the idea of buying empty...

This is my first ever self built recipe, up until now I'd either used brewers best or taken a BB kit and added stuff / made minor changes. I based it on cheesefood's caramel cream ale (which I was originally planning on making but I couldn't find the hops). As an aside, it smelled awesome...

So, I have a batch of Joe's grape mead (recipe from gotmead.com) and am wondering if I have done something wrong or am being too impatient. I'm at the stage of the recipe where you're supposed to rack to a clean carboy over honey and juice. I did that. However, added the campden upon racking...

I had some free time yesterday so I decided that while I was moving my vanilla porter to secondary I would throw together my amateur attempt at a sweet milk stout. Anyway, I had been reading about using yeast cakes and thought I'd try and reuse the one from my porter. Since it was kinda spur...

I did a batch of Edwort's afelwein today and everything was fine except that I didn't realize till after I was done that I ended up about a quart short of apple juice. All other ingredients are to as stated in the recipe. Will this cause any adverse effects? Could I add more later if needed...

Well, I debuted my first ever beer at both mine and my wife's family Turkey Day today to a pretty good success and a lot of "Wow! you made this?!?!" I only took a 6 pack to each and made sure to dole it out in half glasses since it really needs to age another week at least (I couldn't wait, I...

I'm starting a new batch today and I was thinking about mixing it up a little. I'm not ready for all grain yet, but I'd like to experiment with additives a little. Basically, what I'd like to try is making a Breckenridge Vanilla Porter clone. I have no idea if this is feasible with my limited...

Well, I successfully bottled my first batch tonight. In the process, I learned a few things that I thought could be useful, some may be obvious. 1. It's hard to do with a cracked valve. Mine had a crack in it that I didn't notice until it was too late. Beer leaked pretty steadily and...

So I decided to try to make some mead today. I wanted to start with something simple since I'm pretty new to brewing in general, and really, really new to mead. I opted to try the "Ancient Orange Mead" recipe that I've seen floating around ( http://www.moremead.com/mead_logs/Ancient_OCC.html...

This place is a marvelous resource! I just started my first batch last weekend (and posted when my fermenter blew off the top because of a broken airlock; thanks for the quick replies). My wife got me a kit about 4 years ago but I never had time to use it. Since I'm sidelined from my normal...

My wife bought me a basic beer making kit about 4 years ago and I just got around try trying it out yesterday. I put it off for a while because I was afraid of opening the door on a new hobby, I tend to get a little obsessive about my hobbies and sink a lot of time into them ;-) I, of...