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as you can see here, I bottle in 1 Liter reusable plastic bottles. cause.. well.. when having "just two drinks each with a friend" amounts to the equivalent of a 2L jug per person? makes for some fun times. but I'm now wondering if there's a better bottle size? is there something smaller...

okay so my second brew is going to have a set of labels since it's shaping up to be miles better than my first brew (big surprise, huh?) and I figured I'd post it here. it gave me a chance to get my design nerd on pretty heavily. I'm bottling these into recycled rectangular Johnnie Walker...

okay.. so I'm two brews in and I'm now confident that I can make something that is recognizable as beer and isn't completely wretched to drink. my goal now is to see if I can get these drinks to taste better. any tips like getting better quality pre-hopped malt or hopping it myself? or if...

so, after 16 days in the bottle I've decided to crack one of my beers open and see where it's at, and I have to say that I'm thoroughly happy. it's good! and here's a shot of that glass, on my coffee table while I surf around on the web: I have to give thanks to the people on...

so, I'm about 4 days after bottling into some nice 1 liter bottles (cause, lets face it... 750 ML isn't really a single serving.) and everything seems to be okay. but I was wondering while I bottled "should I be leaving less airspace in these things?" there's about.. oh... 2 inches of...

and what is that? now, you have to realize I'm Canadian and the closest thing we have to a packaged home brew up here is buying a tin of Cooper's malt extract and getting some instructions that often don't make sense unless you're from Australia (the OTHER bastard child of England.). but the...

okay, I'm ultra confused... my beer is now starting to taste like proper beer.! it still smells kinda like sweaty feet, but it actually now almost tastes like a Maudite or something along that kinda dark ale lineage. pretty tasty actually, if you give it a few swigs instead of just one...

so, outside of the usual "have I ruined my brew?!?!?!" posts I thought I'd ask something that's been bugging the bejesus out of me ever since I started my first brew this week: ....how do you guys clean your carboys? I don't know about everyone, but my dark ale is 4 days into it's...

so, I have his ale that's about 36 - 37 hours in and it woke me up (small apartment. it's in a storage closet.) with some loud gurgles and fizzy sounds showing me that my bubbler was... full of foam, when I took a look at it. so I quickly built a blow-off system of a tube, some plastic wrap...

okay, so here we go: for priming bottles, is there a ratio that's a good guideline to stick to? (you know, for every X milliliters of beer, use X amount of sugar. or something of that nature?) and also, I'm about a week into fermenting my first ale, and having that carboy in my apartment...