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I was wondering if I could make my own orange peel by zesting oranges. How do they come up with the bitter, and sweet varieties? I would assume they would be fresher if you zested your own.

I am interested in placing my beers into local competition someday. I am thinking I want to wait until I keg. Do they dock for bottle conditioned beer with a sediment layer in bottom? I don't see how a bottle conditioned beer could stand up in points to a filtered, or kegged and clear poured...

Im going to make an apfelwein with 3068 yeast in a 5 gallon carboy! I have the stuff warming up right now! I dont have time to brew a beer, but I can throw together another apfelwein for sure!

I have been searching craigslist for months for 15.5 gal kegs, and cornies. No luck, or when there was I had no money. So finally I decided to put wanted ad on there, overwhelming response here in lincoln. Just scored 2 cornies for 30 bucks, and a 15.5 for 25. I am impressed. So much for...

I was on a big gun kick a few years back. I bought some AK47 parts kits, recievers, and magazines, and ammo back then. The .gov banned the stuff from importation about 2 years ago. This stuff is skyrocketing in price. Since Obama has been elected prices are almost 250 for my lower kits and...

I am making a cream of 3 crops cream ale. I used safe ale 05 yeast. I had very thick crausen. I have VERY thick yeast/crausin at top of beer after 1.5 weeks. I noticed if I gently shake, careful not to aireate the wort, some will drop. I plan on a 2 week primary, and 1 week or more if...

I did my first dryhop on a Haus pale ale, that I added more hops too, just cascades to bump up the bitterness. I added a extra .25 ounce at every step, and had an extra .75 ounce whole hops left at end. I decided I would dryhop. After 14 days in the primary I racked onto the whole hops that I...

I have made a couple extracts, and 4 all grains or so. I just made an all grain Haus pale ale, with whole hops, and about 1oz more cascades than recipe. I also used a starter for the first time. I have large chunks of yeast, and in some cases yeast caked hops floating around in my Carboy...

I make a 5 gallon batch every 2 weeks. Hope to do 10 gallon every 2 weeks when I get more kegs. I drink them as fast as I make them almost. I got about 90 bottles conditioning now, and a primary with about 5.5 gallons in it. I plan to keep the 2 week brew schedule, brewing every 2 weeks, if...

I just made a batch of Heffeweizen, and did not know that the hops were leaf hops until I opened the package. Too late, wort is boiling. The lhbs, seemed to only sell pellets, and I was unaware of this. I made due, I did not have hop bag, so I put them in like they were pellets. I took care...

Instead of using DME for yeast starter, could I use some of my runnings off a sparge that are around 1.030 or so for a yeast starter? Of course they would be transfered to a sanitized container, and should I boil the runnings before pitching the starter? Seems more cost effective than paying...

I just got a free 5 gal rubbermaid. I estimate about 10 pounds grain max. These things are all around me and cheap or free. Could a guy make 2 5gal mash tuns, and make a big 5 gallon, or small 10 gallon batch of beer? Would it be like a 10 gal gott? I could make 2 5gal tuns less than the...

I am thinking of making a keggle out of a pony sanke keg that has been laying aruound for about 5 years? Will it do a 6.5 gallon boil?

Currently my brewpartner and I do dual batches of all grain on same day. I was wondering if making a keggle out of a pony keg, will boil 6.5 gallons, as will make process much quicker, also recently aquired a turkey fryer, a 5 gallon got cooler. Right now, we share 1 brews worth of equiptment...

I was wondering if large bottled water containers could be used as fermenters? They very much resemble better bottles, and for me are easy to come by.

We brewed a kit of porter from the local brew shop. We added some molases to the boil about 12oz. We brewed on Sunday, and now 3 days later, no bubbles, no activity. The yeast we used was Nottingham brewers yeast, and the temp is 65-70 degrees. Is it possible that the molases contaminated...

To make a deep freeze a refridgerator, do you have to buy the thermostat and power plug thing for 75 bucks, or is there an easier way to get the temp higher? On a deepfreeze setup, can I run regular taps instead of those rise up ones that are about 100 bucks each? Planning on 40 dollar 15.5...

All the kits I stumble upon are 4-5% alcohol. Most of the stuff I usually drink commerially is 6-8%. Are there some simple ways to raise gravity like many home recipes call for brown sugur or corn sugur in the boil. Does this increase the alcohol, and how much does it effect taste. If added...

My best friend and I just brewed our first beer in the kit he got for chiristmas. He got the whole setup, with 2 buckets, airlock, syphon, bottler, bottle capper, brushes, etc. His parents even bought him a pale ale ingrediant kit. Even though we prefer porters, stouts, and double bocks...