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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

So the plan is to brew this today, hope it turns out well...definitely my strongest beer so far. Malt pounds oz 6 0 Light Dry Malt Extract info 3 0 Amber Dry Malt Extract info 0 4 Crystal 60L 0 4 Roasted Barley 0 4 American Crystal 80L 0...

So I'm trying to order ingredients for 2 brews at once to take advantage of the flat shipping rate. Already got my Wee Heavy planned...how does this sound for a nut brown (totally just made it up). 3 pounds amber DME 2 pounds light DME .5 pounds victory .2 pounds black patent .5 pounds...

I was wondering if anyone roughly knows the conversion of cups of grain to oz? I've been using portions of my specialty malts and would like to get more accurate amounts into my boil. Clearly a scale is a better way to do that, but money is low right now :(

How is the Black Beauty Capper compared to the Red Emily capper? I'm just now switching to glass bottles w/caps and am looking at various ones on ebay. Or is it much preferred to get one of those standing ones?

So i found some sweet looking bourbon vanilla extract and came up with this recipe out of the blue. What do people think....does it make sense for a blonde ale? Malt 4 Pounds light DME 1 Pound Vienna 1 Pound 2-row Caramel 10 .5 pounds Carapils Hops .5 oz Perle (60 min) .5 oz Williamette (30...

Ok, so because I have less than ideal equipment, I kinda of do things a bit different then they're supposed to be done. So I want to get some feedback on anything within my process that may be significantly hurting the quality of my beer. Ok so first, I do partial mashing...tend to steep my...

My next beer venture is a vanilla cream ale. The kit I'm buying is just a plain cream ale so I'm sprucing it up myself. Anyone have a good idea about the amount and time of addition for vanilla extract to get the best flavor? And as a side note I have some left over whole magnum hops...what...

20 bucks for a case of Left Hand Oktoberfest for the super bowl? Should I go for it or no....reviews on ratebeer are mixed. Seems like it might be a good counterpoint to my India Red Ale.

So I realized I made a dumb mistake after opening my first beer...forgot to boil priming sugar in water, instead I just dumped it into wort before bottling. Is this going to significantly affect my carbonation? It's an IPA too...really would have liked to have some head on this. Plus it also...

So it looks like Beer Calculus doesnt have extra light LME and I dont have anything else that I know of to calculate color. I have a can of the extra light LME, 3 pounds of extra light DME, and a pound of light DME. How much Crystal 70L(half 80, half 60) do I need to make my brew red?

I have these questions in recipe section but no one is answering me and I'm brewing today! Please let me know what you think if you could, thanks! Ok I found a LHBS in the area and have some Simcoe Plugs and Magnum whole flowers in the mail. How does my new hopping schedule look? 60 0.75...