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Woop Woop!! I'm so happy to announce that I finally stepped up and joined the AG crew! My lovely swimbo hooked me up with a 15 gallon Stainless Steel and propane-burner set up last christmas and I've been building a dedicated fermentation chamber so I could finally do this. The inagural...

Hello HBT, It's been a while but I wanted to share a crazy brew day experience in hopes that a new brewer may be able to get something out of it and learn from my mistake. Basically I am turning a total f**kup into a learning opportunity. I really have no idea how this will turn out but I'm...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING, HBT!!! :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: :mug: It may sound silly saying this but I list HBT among the things I am truly thankful for. Anyone can read a book by an author or two and learn how to brew but HBT is like reading a book by hundreds of authors with countless...

D'oh!! :o:o:o So I order ingredients for my upcoming brew day just like I always do. When they arive at my house I always inspect everything to make sure the ingredients are correct and fresh, etc. Only then do I realize that I forgot to tell the vendor that I wanted the steeping grains...

:( I'm saddened to annouce that I had to put my beloved doberman "Kale" down today due to complications from bone cancer. The cancer cost him a leg last year...I started calling him "Tripod" to lighten the burden a little bit. That is actually where my handle comes from...I took the name to...

OK, HBT. I witnessed something nearly heartbreaking yesterday and I still can't quite get my head around it. Please someone explain this one to me: So there I am, sitting in a small local bar on the way home from work. I'm just stopping in to grab a beer and unwind a little so I can leave...

Greetings All! My lovely and/or talented wifey has been paying attention! She got me the brew kit in August for my birthday and for Christmas, she got me "Brewing Classic Styles" by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer. God, I love her! :) The book is excellent - I highly recommend it to...

Greetings All! I am trying to find a way to mark lines for each gallon on my 6.5 gallon glass carboy but everything seems to quickly wash off of glass. I tried a regular sharpie the first time and it washed right off after I cleaned the carboy. I did a search on HBT and found a thread about...

Hello HBT!! I am currently drinking the Red Ale I brewed about 2 months ago. It is my first solo brew and I am really loving it! I've helped friends do a lot of batches but this is my first solo-flight. I did pretty good for the first try, but I noticed that my Red Ale has very little...

Hello Fellows (and ladies...)! :mug: I will finally be brewing the next batch this coming Monday and I'm getting my game face on! I'll be trying my hand at a porter for the first time and was wondering if any of the more experienced brewers had any tips for making a porter. It's just a...

Greetings HBT! :mug: I am finally getting around to brewing the next batch and all of my ingredients are on the way...woohoo!! But like a good noobie, I am realizing after the fact that the medium-sized nylon grain bag that I ordered is designed for about a pound of grains but the recipe...

Greetings All and HAPPY WEEKEND! :tank: I almost put this question in the "Beginning Brewers" section since I definitely fit the description. But most of the questions in there are about getting started/sanatation/"did-I-ruin-my-beer?" Since my question is specific to bottling, I thought...

Greetings All! I have a glass carboy now but it didn't arrive until after I brewed my first batch. So my beer is sitting in a white bucket that I can't see through. Other than removing the lid and exposing my beer, does anyone know of a good way I can "eyeball" the krausen to see what is...

Hello All! You guys just have too much knowledge to not ask the silly questions! Thanks in advance for passing any knowledge you're willing to share. Please allow me to ask yet another noobie question. :D First, I'm certain my batch is A-OK and that what I experienced is completely...

Greetings All! I know I'm still new at this...but I am freekin' mesmerized and nearly hypnotized by the bubbling air-lock! My wife is worried that she can no longer lure me away with her feminine wiles! :D Who's guilty? Confess and you shall be free! ;) -Tripod

Greetings All! First, let me say this is the opposite of the typical "no bubbling" question...I have plenty of airlock activity. I just boiled my first wort (which was a rolling blast by the way!) and I have a question about fermentation and the airlock. I know that you can't really trust...

Greetings All and HAPPY FRIDAY!! :tank: I tried to search the threads as much as possible before posting a repeat question. I hope I'm not repeating here...but I have a question about using iodophor. According to the research I've done, you only need a 1-2 minute exposure to sanitize...

Greeting All! I am new to all of this so please have mercy if my questions seem obvious or numerous! :) I am curious about brewing less than 5 gallons when most of the recipes I'm finding are for a 5 gallon batch. Suppose a brewer wanted to only make 2.5 gallons of bottled beer. Would...

Greetings All! First things first. I am brand-new to home brewing and I'm already obsessed. My lovely and/or talented wife gave me a brew-kit for my birthday this past August and I am preparing to brew my first extract batch (maybe a Red Ale). I have learned more from these threads than...