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I was wondering how long it was ok to leave beer in the primary?? the reason i ask is my beer had a metallic taste in it. very strong metallic taste. it has now been in the primary about 4 weeks. Im waiting on some EDTA to come in the mail, bc ive heard that adding a small amount of that to the...

Im wanting to brew a good winter ale and looking for suggestions. I want something i can brew within the next few weeks and it be ready by christmas at the latest. Open to any style ale. would like to see recipes and pictures if u have them. Im considering doing a stout or another brown ale but...

Hey guys, so this is my 5th brew and i was expecting it to be good based on the results from my previous brews. everything went great on brew day and its been in the carboy for a week now. i took a sample last night to get a gravity reading and its down to 1.010. i drank the sample and it has a...

ok so i was trying to rehydrate my yeast today (us05) i boiled some water and let it cool down. it got to cool before i was able to add the yeast so i went ahead and dumped the yeast in and put it on the stove to raise the temp a tad. i ran to the bathroom real quick and came back. the water got...

Went and got stuff for my next brew! Not sure what really to categorize it as. Really just pieced it together with some stuff I already had figured maybe someone could give input or advice? Ok so this is what I've got.... 6.5 lbs us2 row, 1lb honey malt, 1lb flaked wheat, 1lb caravienna paired...

Ok so i built my mash tun saturday and used what i thought were stainless steel wasthers. After i brewed on sunday and was cleaning up i noticed the washer on the inside of the mash tun and the screws to the stainless steel hose clamps were rusted!!! Are there washers out there that will not...

ok so i have the following ingredients. 1 lb caravienne 2 3.3 lb bags light malt extract 4 lbs 6 row honey malt 1 oz whole coriander seeds 1 lb German malted wheat 1 lb flaked wheat now my question is what can i brew with them? idealy i would like to just have to buy hops and...

Ok so i went to lowes and got what i thought would be a tight fitting hose to use as a blow off tube. Well last night i brewed my first all grain batch! it went great but then i noticed that the hose wasn't a tight fit into my stopper at all. Lowes was already closed so i just put the hose thru...

a friend gave me a 5 gallon water cooler the other day and im wanting to make my first all grain batch. I haven't had time to put a ball valve spicot and filter in the cooler yet, but i was wondering if anyone has ever just mashed in a cooler and used a few feet of hose to siphon your mash back...

Ok so i brewed a brown ale from extract 2 weeks ago today. Its been in the fermenter undisturbed until today when i took the stopper out of the carboy and took a lil sample to get a gravity reading. My reading was right around 1.020 on my hydrometer. My question is, is this a good reading for a...

Trying to figure out what i want to brew next, and was wondering what everyones favorite extract brew was. One of your own recipes? a kit from someplace? Would really love to brew a lager but i dont think i have the equiptment setup that i need for that just yet. Have a brown ale fermenting...

Hey guys, did my first every brew this past sunday. it was a brown ale extract kit. Everything went extremely well all through out the brew process and i was shocked how well my homemade immersion chiller worked. Dropped from 200 down to 85 really quick. probly about 15 minutes or so but then i...

was wondering if anyone uses the swamp cooler method when fermenting ur beer. Im thinking of doing this with my brew this weekend to hopefully get it at a better fermenting temp. I keep my house temp at about 73 im hoping by using this method (big plastic bin full of cold water and maybe some...

Hey guys, im new to the brewing scene and will be doing my first extract brew this weekend. My question is what is the proccess for bottling?? I have priming sugar but when do i add it? how do i add it? and does it matter what size bottles i use? i have about 30 or so 12 oz bottles and 4...

Was wondering if a food grade plastic water jug would work to ferment my first extract brew in. The guy at LHBS said it would probly be fine for at least one batch. Would i be better off useing a 5gal bucket with a lid? Gonna be buying a glass carboy in a few weeks but in the mean time with this...

Ok im not to the point yet of building my single tier system yet but looking into what its gonna cost me to put it together, so my question is what type of pump do u guys use to pump ur water from ur HLT to ur MLT and then to ur Boiler? do u need 2 pumps? are they easy to set up? If i get 2 old...

Hey guys, im new to the brew world. Im gonna be doing my first extract brew this weekend. Right now all i have is my boil kettle, burner, fermantor, air lock and all my ingredients. I feel like i have everything i need except a chiller. Are there any fairly cheap ways to make a chiller? Ive...

Hey guys! im new to homebrewing and just bought an extract ingredient kit from a local brew supply shop. I plan on brewing my first batch this coming weekend. Starting with an extract brew of a brown ale so i can ferment at pretty much room temp and not need as much equipment to get started. Im...