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Any of you Chicago area brewers shop at Perfect Brewing? Just wondered if they are still in business, they stiffed me for $50 they don't reply to emails and they don't answer the phone. I've used them before and they've always been a bit slow but I always got the stuff, this last order was...

Did a little experiment Friday, I tried brewing in the basement using a little 10,000 btu Coleman propane burner that runs on those little green propane tanks. The temps have been hovering around zero for the last two weeks but friday it warmed up into the 40's F so I figured it would be a...

Got a strong medicinal flavor in my beer and its been suggested that its due to using bleach. I use what How To Brew calls a no rinse mix ratio, and then rinse until there is no odor, followed up with a one step sanitizer. Any of you use bleach with out problems?

The good news, my beer is very well carbonated, the bad news, it has such a strong medicinal/Band-Aid flavor that its undrinkable. I had thought that the medicinal off flavor was mellowing but I just tried another bottle and its as bad as ever. I have two batches that are undrinkable and...

Well my basement had been a steady 68 degrees, now that the cold weather is setting in its down to a steady 63 degrees. I was thinking about getting a brew belt but I see the manufacture doesn't recommend using them on glass carboys, have any of you used these on glass?

Just ordered a sweet mead kit from Northern Brewers, I have 4 batches of Beer at various stages, and my primary will soon be empty so I am gonna fill it with mead. As long as my beer turns out ok I'll be set for a while in that department, so I figured I have some free time for brewing a mead...

I did everything wrong On Purpose. I picked up a Coopers beer kit on sale the other day, I was originally going to get an extra can of extract and make a 5 gallon batch with it, however since I already have 3 good batches at various stages right now I decided I'd try an experiment with the...

So my next brew is going to be a NB Bavarian Hefe Weizen, this beer is supposed to be cloudy right? So I'm wondering would it be best to just do 2 weeks in the primary and go right to bottles or would it benefit from doing the usual 1 week in the primary and 2 weeks in the secondary?

Ok, I bottled my first home brew today, its a Brewers Best Red Ale Kit, 1 week in the primary, one day short of 2 weeks in the secondary. The OG and FG were spot on and everything went pretty good. So after bottling I had a half bottle left so I capped it and put it in the fridge, my plan is to...

Does this work? I have a Brewers Best IPA in my primary right now, I am thinking about adding some Oak chips to the secondary any advice would be great. The reason I want to use the chips is I had a 6 pack of MacTarnahans IPA the lable says its oak aged, well I really liked the stuff so I...

Are there any brew shops in Iowa, I see Des Moines has one but thats a 3 hour drive, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo or for that matter even Rochester MN are close to where I live any chance these towns have one hidden away?

Yesterday I racked my first brew (a red ale kit) from the primary to the secondary, when I opened the lid on the primary it was a thing of beauty just few bubbles left over from fermentation and it smelled great and tasted great. The transfer went great no mishaps but now 21 hours later I have...

I know what your thinking... baking Bread? What the heck does that have to do with brewing beer? Well I read that old time bakeries got there yeast from breweries, I was just wondering if anyone has tried using the trub to make bread.

I'm just getting started with home brewing, I was going to start out slow and brew one batch using a simple basic starter kit and then go from there. Well my first batch is in the fermenting bucket and I've already bought a carboy for the secondary fermentation that I wasn't going to bother with...

My home brew kit came yesterday (Saturday) I ordered the kit from Perfect Brewing Supply out of Chicago, I live 5 hours from there and it took 4 days so pretty much standard delivery time. Any way my first brew is a Red Ale kit, the brew went pretty good and its setting in a nice cool dark area...