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What if I carb it separately and at about half the amount of sugar?

So I'm about to bottle my Apfelwein for Thanksgiving and had a question. I have these leftover glass gallon apple juice bottles. I was thinking since I anticipate going through at least a gallon for Thanksgiving I could bottle in one of the gallon containers to save bottles. Is there any reason...

There's a nice recipe in extreme brewing. It was only my 2nd beer and its probably top 2 for me. Brought it to thanksgiving and my girlfriend's uncle was all over it, preferring it to the expensive ice wine he brought for dessert! I baked the pumpkin as well and then pureed and just added to...

So I am without a HBS in the area and im out of priming sugar....2 questions. 1 - I know priming sugar is corn sugar, where can I buy this commercially without a LHBS? 2 - If theres no corn sugar, is there an acceptable substitute (I saw turbinado in the store) besides carb tabs (which I...

Basic stuff, made it with 5 lbs of honey, a can of amber liquid extract, with nottingham ale yeast. So its been about 2 weeks in the fermenator and it seems to have reached a FG of about 1.005, which seems about right. Most of my beers taste decent straight out of fermentation. This mostly...

Looks pretty awesome, will have to remember to give that a look every now and then.

Anyone used EuroHop on ebay before? Seems like decent deals for a pound of various types of hops.

Agreed, but I plan on adding my first addition at the end of the boil. I'm relying on the fruit for some of my fermentables. If I don't, my abv will be just under 4%, which is a bit low. I'm guessing that 2 pounds in the secondary should give it some significant flavor.

So im making a black raspberry wheat beer (wild raspberries from the backyard which is exciting!) So my plan is to first use store bought frozen blackberries (1.5 pounds) and put them in at the end of my boil to cool it down and use the sugars from them. Then I want to use the higher quality...

Well the ones that work im capping with an Emily capper, the ones that don't work are the swing tops. They used to work fine with only maybe 1 or 2 not fully carbonated.

So I started recently using mostly old glass bottles with caps as my primary bottling system. Before I had plastic PET bottles and about 12 liter swing top bottles. Now I still like to use the glass bottles because their nice and I paid a good bit for them. Now half of the glass bottles 2...

Wow good to know, didn't think you needed pitch so quickly after re-hydration! I used dry yeast for the first time a couple weeks ago after being re-hydrated for about 4 hours...although I did put some sugar in there to them going as well.

Haha I'm relaxed, I was just curious as to how fast the fermentation was going after how vigorous it was for a day (and is now slowing down). I know itll be beer too, but I know that high temperatures can be bad, especially if youre not looking for high esters and fruitiness. Think I might...

So my OG was 1.054, 1 and a half days later its 1.024...seems like that is extremely fast. Unfortunately my temperature is about 77 or 78 as I have no temperature control system. I'm using S-04 for a Nut Brown...think I'm going to see some real off flavors in this brew?

Anyone have a good Braggot recipe? I have 5 pounds of cheap Sam's club honey that I need to put to use and there aren't that many recipes out there...

Or perhaps they discovered a cheaper, lower quality water substitute?

Before or after....how about during? Otherwise there might be an aspect of the beer that doesn't taste like piss, and BMC knows how much people love to drink piss with a thimble of alcohol poured in! So you think they drop the camels in or is there a piss platform above the monstrosity tank?

Triple Hop brewed? A unique process?! Are they allowed to say that its "unique" to add hops at 3 different times during a boil? It also amuses me that Miller is trying to counter the "drinkability" movement by assuring the common man that their triple hop technique makes their beer a quality...

Ok so I've been doing partial mash for 5 batches or so now. I have a 7.5 gallon pot and my primary which has a spigot and so doubles as my bottling bucket which I understand isnt ideal (I did actually get an auto siphon recently which seems to be helping with clarity). My question is whether...

My last brew was a blonde...go vanilla blonde with Willamette hops. It's pretty good once the aging starts to mellow out the vanilla.