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We must be heading toward fall as I see a few questions about pumpkin ale popping up!! I am brewing the NB Smashing Pumpkin AB Kit this weekend and have read some feedback that the 1 tsp of pumpkin spice added at the end of the boil is a bit on the subtle side and could be a bit more...

Hello everyone! My brother-in-law has been interested in homebrewing for quite some time. Before Thanksgiving dinner yesterday, I decided it was a great time to get him started. I bought a an Oatmeal Stout AG kit and set out all of my beermaking tools. Because the oven/stove was in use...

I didn't think of infecting the batch, but I'll keep an eye on it. I did keep the spoon in sanitizer and the blue dye was merely blue McCormick food coloring.

I brewed up a Blueberry Wheat about a month ago and all went smooth. I measured the gravity at 1.010 one week before bottling and the day of bottling. I had the great idea to throw a little blue dye in the bottling bucket and stirred it in gently with a wooden spoon. I bottled up 53...

Thanks zman.. I'll take a look at my friendly grocer's freezer. Did you rack the beer on top of the blueberries or add the strained juice at bottling?

If the weekend goes as planned, I want to start my third AG brew. I have the ingredients for a Belgian Wit, but have been thinking about how to have some fun with it at bottling. I ordered a bottle of blueberry extract and thought about adding a small amount of blue food coloring just...

Thanks for the reply Suth.. When I strained it I noticed there weren't as many as I thought. Maybe a baseball sized clump in my paint strainer. Some of that was hops so hopefully I'll be ok.

Hello everyone.. I just did my 2nd AG brew tonight. It was a NB Oatmeal stout. Everything was going smoothly until I put my kettle on the stove and realized that there were some grains that had made it through my braid and into my kettle. Upon further review, my tubing came lose from the...

Good idea. Thanks for the suggestions. I've done some weird things since I started brewing. The first beer I ever made (extract) was a Irish Red Ale and I didn't know I was suppose to steep the grains in the bag that came with the kit. Instead, I dumped them in for the entire 60...

Well, in one of my very first beers.. I went overboard.. (as many do it sounds). In addition to adding the zest of 4 oranges and 4 lemons during boil, I added about 8 oz of orange and lemon juice when racking into the primary. I thought the first few were tasty, but now I'm stuck with 30 beers...

Haha.. yeah.. perhaps I need to repost now that it's officially April 2nd! I joined up a few months ago but haven't posted too much. I'm still learning a lot as I go along. Where is the 3rd South Dakota member? If he/she is in Murdo, we could all meet up for a beer.. :) Although that...

I know I have seen this discussed before, but I wasn't able to find the thread. I apologize if it's a repeat question. I am brewing up an American Wheat this weekend and was wondering if anyone has any idea what adding a couple/few packets of lemonade Kool Aid would do before bottlng? I...

Yeah... I have a confession.. although I did it unintentionally. I was making some Irish Red Ale last weekend and boiled the grains right along with the extract. Some people say it might turn out alright, some people say it won't. I guess I'll just wait and see.

I threw my Apfelwein together (EdWorts recipe but I added 1/2 gallon of pear nectar) on December 28th.... it fermented good and hard and was at 1.000 a week ago. It now bubbles once every 90 seconds. It's still cloudy but I'd love to get this bottled up to try by the first week of February. Do...

Thanks for all your help.. I'm hopeful it turns out alright. I'll keep you posted. The smell isn't as strong as it was earlier. I look at the bright side and say that no matter how it turns out, at least I'll have some homebrew to drink when I start worrying in the future and someone...

My biggest concern at first was the effects the acidity of the citrus might have on the yeast. I think I jumped that hurdle and it's churning away nicely. I kind of used a few different recipes I came across for similar beers, but I might have overkilled it with the 7 oz of juice..

Greetings everyone.. I'm pretty new to homebrewing and therefore I worry and don't have any homebrew to help me with the worrying. I have a brew that is bottled so hopefully I won't have an excuse anymore. Anyway.. I have a question and look forward to hearing your replies. I brewed...

I used Looza Pear Nectar. It contains Pear Puree, sugar, and water. From what I understand, it doesn't have preservatives. I could be wrong. While at the local grocery store tonight, I found straight pear juice in the baby section. I'll try that next time, although it's about $10/gallon. I...

Well.. I went ahead and used 4.5 gallons of Motts Apple Juice (all I could find locally) and a half gallon of Pear Nectar. I used Montrachet yeast and it's just starting to bubble. Hopefully it will turn out alright.

Hello everyone.. This is my first post after weeks/months of reading. I've sure learned a lot and hope to learn more and even contribute knowledge to these forums over time. While visiting some friends and family recently, I stopped at the Pyramid Ale House in Walnut Creek, CA. I tried...