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I have some leftover ingredients from previous batches that I could use some ideas on how to use them to come up with a drinkable brew. 2 lbs Crystal 10L 8 oz Special Roast 1 lb Munich LME 3-4lbs Light DME 2 oz Simcoe 1 oz Willamette 3 oz Tettnanger Safbrew T-58...

I have a 1st yr plant that I was excited to see had several cones forming. I've been keeping an eye out for bugs and noticed one day all the cones, and some leaves, were gone. It looks like something cut the stems. I found 5 short fat green worms I picked off and fed to the fish but the...

I have a Munton's Pilsner hopped extract kit and .5 oz of simcoe hop pellets lying around. Does anyone have any ideas if I could or how I could use those hops with that kit? I was thinking maybe boiling the hops in say...3 gal of water for 20-30min and adding that to the kit.

I'm looking into getting a grain mill for steeping grains, still doing extract batches. I see a lot people talk about the corona mill but I have found a Prago grain mill I can get a few bucks cheaper. Does anyone know much about these or have any comments on quality?

I've made a nut brown ale kit from munton's that I really like but would like to change it up a bit. I've heard talk of adding spices but I'm very inexperienced in what or how much to add. Does anyone have suggestions on what might go well with it? The kit makes 6 gal.

I have the copper tubing to make a chiller but I'm not sure what size to make the coils. Is there an optimum radius for the coils to cool the wort?

I'm fairly new to the beer scene and I'm wanting to try different beer styles. I've found buffalo wild wings to be my new favorite restaurant and they have a decent beer selection. I've been wanting to try a porter idea what beer on the list is a porter just by looking at the name and nobody...

I brewed a light ale from a kit and I'm afraid that I may have messed up on my priming sugar. My OG was 1.032 and I bottled at 1.002 after 3 weeks in primary. It's been 11 days in bottle and I noticed a few bottles had leaky caps. When I popped the cap they spewed spewed like volcanoes and...

I just broke my hydrometer and I was wondering if anybody uses a thermohydrometer. My LMHBS carries both but it is worth $8 more?

Does anyone here have asthma that has noticed it flare up after drinking homebrew? I've noticed my asthma has been bothering me more than usual and just recently realized that about the time it has started acting up is when I started drinking my brews.

I've made a few batches with the hopped no boil kits but I'm thinking about moving up. I'm oversimplifying this a bit but if I buy a some LME or DME and add in some hops of whatever I grab off the shelf, will I have a viable wort? Granted boil times and quantity will affect the taste but isn't...

I've been tossing around the idea of making some cider. The way I understand yeast is that once the yeast turn so much sugar into alcohol the % gets too high they die. So I am wondering, could a person get the yeast strength and add enough sugar to increase ABV to max and sweeten the cider in...

I've been digging out my beer making equipment and restarting the hobby. I found my fermenting bucket but I can't find the lid for it. I have a lid that came off another bucket that snaps on rather well. Can I drill a hole in the lid add a stopper and air lock and use that for my primary or...

I just recently started brewing and so far I am using hopped LME. Starting with the easy ways and building up. I've tried adding things to the kits but that has been the extent so far.