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Hi gang. I love porters and stouts in the winter, but those around me think they are too bitter. (IPA’s are bitter to me - not these!) What I’m wanting to brew is a rich coffee flavor that my friends who think dark beers are bitter may like. I’m not sure if this should be something like...

I have to drive 50 miles to get my tank filled, or drop it off at the local Airgas shop and wait a week for them to take it to the same Airgas headquarters and fill it and bring it back during their once a week run. It is inconvenient, but you have to drive 50 miles around here to see a movie...

I have been wanting to build a keezer, but my wife and I needed a little extra freezer space and that was the priority. So a few months ago we bought a second refrigerator to keep kegs and bottled beer in, and used the freezer above for food. I started experimenting with the refrigerator...

When I racked my first AG to keg a couple of weeks ago, the sample had a lemon/orange peel taste...sour, but not bad. After two weeks at 11 psi of continuous gas, I pulled another sample today. The sour taste today is just as bad as it was with my original sample. It may even be worse, but...

I brewed this recipe a couple of months ago and transferred it to a keg this weekend. It had a slight sour taste to it...kind of like lemons or orange peel. I do not know if this is to be expected with recipes with corn, if it is the hops, yeast in suspension, an infection, or just because it...

I used Deathbrewer's Easy Stovetop AG thread as a guideline, but did a 7+ gal boil since had a large pot and was using a gas burner. My stove won't boil 3 gals. The recipe was BierMuncher's Cream of Three Crops, adjusted as follows for a 5.5 gal batch: 6# Pale Ale Malt 1# Crystal 10L 2#...

Sorry, I just needed to tell someone :ban: UPS man left them on the front porch and I found them right after I read the good news about SB 153. I may try to make a move on SWMBO while good things are happening! But first things first, I need to store my grains until brew day.

It's a crazy day in south Alabama. People are spinning out on the sides of the roads, and buying up all of the milk and bread! Let a little snow be in the forecast here, and we go nuts! Give us an icy road, and the Nascar mindset kicks in and we have to go for a drive. This is our first real...

I put 2.5 gallons of Canadian Ale in a 5 gal keg about 6 months ago as my first kegging experience. I purged the oxygen and then blasted it with 30 psf CO2 to seal it. I rolled it a few times, shot a little more gas in and then left it in the closet. A few weeks later, I hooked gas back up...

Hi guys....been awhile. I have a True Brew Pale Ale kit which had a can of LME and 2#'s of DME, some grains, and Williamette hops. Basic kit, and I just put it into the primary. I was thinking about bottling half of it and adding fruit to the secondary on the other half. I prefer...

Once I post what I think is a problem here, it usually resolves itself a few days later (as you guys always say it will). I hope this is the case here. I posted here http://https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/first-5-gal-brew-74240/index2.html#post882083 last weekend that it was taking awhile...

It was 2:50+/- am.......I thought it was my wife snoring at first, but then realized it wasn't her. Maybe I just thought I heard something....afterall, I was sound asleep. Then the dogs barked. So I went to check on them. One of them was digging under the privacy fence and the other was...

Sorry guys, I read the other links but didn't find this problem and waited as long as I could stand to ask the question! I don't think I ruined it, or that it has mold in it, or anything like that. Just wondering since it was my first 5 gal batch if it is a procedural problem or normal...

I have only used pure extract until now, but would like to make an Oatmeal Stout. I told my LHBS what I wanted to build and he recommended a True Brew Irish Stout kit with additional flaked oats. Kit came with (1) can of hopped LME, 2lbs of dark DME, 8 oz. of crushed crystal, 6 oz. of...

I finally used up all of my MRB recipes and want to make my first 5-gal batch to enjoy during football season (or at least the first week of football season :D). Here's what I know: I do not like the IPA's, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and other pale ales, or at least the kind of hops used in...

I posted earlier this month that I was using liquid yeast for the first time and wasn't sure it was working (http://https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?p=595049#post595049). After three weeks, the bubbles on top have almost cleared as has the AW. I can still see lots of small bubbles...

I made my first 2.5 gals of Apfelwein over the weekend and used Wyeast 3068. This was also my first time using a liquid yeast. Within an hour it was on the bottom of the carboy. I gave it a shake and got it mixed again. It is at the bottom again. I am getting a bubble in the airlock every 5...