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I was bottling my pale ale last night and i tasted just a bit of it before adding the corn sugar. it tasted awful and smelled pretty bad as well... can i expect it to get better after conditioning in the bottle? i was really careful with sanitization and what not but i think i might have my...

While boiling an American Ale kit from morebeer.com last night, I was reading (to keep me on task) C.P.'s the Complete Joy of homebrewing. He said that using a blowoff tube can help get some bitterness down as well as some oils that will lead to headaches. Well, I am on my 8 or 9th beer and...

I was brewing some american brown ale and i began to try to use filtered water. I realized when i was adding cold water to my primary fermenter (i do a partial boil) that the black things from my Brita filter got in. What do type of effect will take place?? Also, should i be using boiled water...

I just recently purchased a bottling tree and most comments on here say that people will sanitize the bottles and then place the bottles back on the bottling tree to dry. I will being using the idopher stuff but how safe will it be to put that plastic back up the middle of the bottle?? also, a...

Is there a special way to up the alcohol content? It would probably make the beer taste strange though.. right? yeah probably...

What I have been doing is 1. Primary Ferm. 2. Secondary Ferm. When its ready to bottle I syphon from the Secondary to a bucket that has a spigot and use that bucket for bottling leaving the crap at the bottom of the Secondary ferm. so I won't have tons of sediment in my bottling bucket...

You know those things that they turn upside down on water coolers?? Could I used that instead of a glass carboy and would glass carboy fittings work with one of those?? I want to try to "blow off" thing that is suggested a lot of times but I don't have the $40 to shell out right now for the...

I have been ordering all of my kits from Austin Home Brew Supply. I have been really happy with their product and speedy shipping but I am looking for some variety in companies. There are tons out there and I don't want to get burned so let me know where you guys like to order from. Thanks, Tim

i plan on adding some grapefruit to my beer and in papazian's (spelling??) book he didn't say whether to skin the fruits or not.... during or after pasturizing the fruit ...when should they be skinned or should they??

Well my brewing partner and I were enjoying are pervious brew a little too much while starting our porter. With our brew pack came a yeast fuel and we had an extra one as well so we put thinking that it might help it out but within 12 hours foam keeps coming out of the airlock and pressure shoot...

the guinness draft bottles are great but will the widget have an effect on my beer????