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I was planning on bottling my current batch today and brewing batch two and dumping it on the yeast cake. I've never done this before and wanted to try the technique, but my current batch is still bubbling 6/minute and doesn't look done. (no I didn't check the OG I brew in a hydrometer free...

My screen name might give it away, but since getting back into homebrewing a few years ago I have a particular objective. I want to learn how to make good or great beer on a boat and be able to do it away from civilization. (Civilization as defined here means within range of a home brew...

I recently brewed up some of the white house ale (blech!) and in their recipe they gave boil times for the hops and said "add 10 minutes to the boil if using a wort chiller". Ummm what? What is the general way that you arrange your boil timing and cooling with the wort chiller? I...

Greetings fellow brewers! I haven't been brewing much over the last year, but I'm back into it again and the kettle is calling! I'm looking to brew up something for the winter, and I know I'm behind the 8 ball time-wise but still, I'd like to give it a go. Might be a long winter anyway...

Time for another Brew On Board.... I love moose drool, and more importantly my brew consuming companion (who bought me brewing books for our anniversary) loves Moose Drool as well. I think I'd like to take a crack at it. I know that AHS has a moose drool clone kit, but I am fortunate...

I'm taking samples of my swartzbier thinking I may bottle today but the beer I pull off has lots of floaty hop pellet remnants in it. How can I avoid having heaps of floaty hop bits in my bottles? I'm using a coopers fermenter BTW and I've even tried tilting it away from the spigot so that...

I was hoping to bottle my swartzbier today, but the wind has kicked up to 30 knots which means my house is moving too much and stirring up too much trub to bottle. No worries though, a sailor has to defer to the wind and the extra time sure won't hurt the swartzbier. As I stare at the...

I took a reading on my swartzbier today. SG 1.012. Same as it was over a week ago. Has my fermentation ceased? I used an expired saflager package when it pitched it about 3-4 weeks ago and it's been kept in the 45-55degree range. It did get cold about 2 weeks ago, getting down to 40 or so...

I've been ignoring my swartzbier in the fermenter for a few weeks now. I decided to check the SG since I did use expired saflager yeast and I wanted to make sure it was finished fermenting as I had heard lagers can take a long time. The sample I took to measure I took from the tap near the...

I just wanted to share with the world that I brewed my first extract batch with steeping grains since I used to brew at a brew on premises place over 10 years ago. I've done a couple coopers batches and some cider while I got the process down and the equipment minimized. I think I've got the...

So before I start I do want to say that this isn't an oh my god I'm about to dump my beer thread. I am, in fact, relaxing and about to have a home brew.;) With that said, I'm curious about what my mistake in hop timing will do to the expected flavor of this beer. What I did, was add the...

I am about to brew this puppy, and suddenly I realised that it is asking for a lot of water at a specific temp. Is this a partical mash recipe? I was planning on just steeping the grains, do I really need to rinse them with exact temp water? Recipe posted by "wild" for swartzbier...

A boat neighbor of mine is a genius I have just decided. He saw me brewing and mentioned that he brews each fall to have beer for the winter. I found out that he uses a corny keg, which I though was odd considering we boat folk have small fridges. Then came the genius: He just leaves the keg...

I've been thinking of making smoothies in a small blender for breakfast and for post workout. While looking for ingredients for smoothies and shakes I thought (of course) about beer. While a breakfast stout is probably equal to a breakfast smoothie, and an oatmeal stout great for post workout, I...

Does dry yeast keep longer in the fridge? Worth the bother? If I fridge it, will it work after its use by date or are they usually toast by then? BoB

I just wouldn't be doing the veterans any justice unless I, to expose my noobness, posted a beer anxiety thread. So here goes: Oh my god! I've brewed a simple cooper's lager and after 3 days I've got no airlock activity! Help! Help! Help! :D I pitched it at 22c and I've kept it in an outside...

Since joining the boards as a "Christmas noob" last year, I have brewed (with great assistance from y'all) 1 coopers dark ale (pre-hopped) 2 ciders, and one ginger beer. Those brews were at a house I was staying at during a medical rotation. School has kept me from brewing much, but today with...

I read in a recent thread a great explanation of what the proper use of a secondary fermenter is, and how people misuse the concept. Sorry I can't remember the poster to give him credit, but it was awesome. Armed with that knowledge I now know that that many brewers do not really secondary, but...

I just ordered a cooper's microbrewery kit, as I want a cooper's fermenter for my primary and I also wanted all those plastic bottles. Unfortunately it comes with a can of cooper's lager and 2lbs of "brewing sugar" and I wasn't able to substitute it for anything else. I'm not much of a lager...

Coopers Homebrew Beer | Home Beer Brewing Kit | Beer Making | Beer Kit If you email or call them directly they can ship you a fermenter only and you don't have to buy the whole microbrewery kit. Cost $35 + shipping, which to Seattle is about $15more dollars. Cheers! BrewOnBoard