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after couple months break. I usually buy from LHBS with my recipe on hand. This time I'd like to try "recipe kit" from AustinHB.com where everything for 5 gals is included pre-calculated. Good price (surprisingly cheap), convenient... Did anyone try these "kit" before? Would you recommend, or...

First of all, :off: , flag at will! Secondly, since I have all the equipments for beer and my wife suggests making something non-alcohol bev. Is sparkling apple cider or juice easy to make? Should it be just apple juice in a keg and carb. it to 30 psi for couple days? Thanks.

Hello all, I've been brewing with Briess DME which I bought 6 lbs at a time from my LHBS. This time I want to try to buy and stock about 50lbs of DME. At least I can see right away, Briess DME from online is not that much cheaper than my LHBS, but DME from other manufactures like Munton & Fison...

The batch is already in a keg and carbonated. How do I add hop bitterness to it now? Boil hop with water and add it? If so, how long? Do I have other options like hop extract...? Thank you.

My 6 days old primary ale had almost no airlock activity and I racked to secondary. OG was 1.052, SG at the racking time is 1.020. After the racking, there is no bubbles at all in secondary carboy! Is it stuck? If so what should I do? It is pale ale with WLP002 English Ale yeast. Thanks.

In one of my batches, after adding the boil-now-cool water to the wort, it was till at 4.3 gal mark. So I added tap water to make it 5.0 gal, it was too late at night to boil and cool the water. It however started fermenting within 15 minutes thank to the big starter I had made. The beer turn...

It is WL English Ale (WLP-002). Right from begining, inside the original cylinder, it already has that chunky form. In the picture is the yeast after one night in my starter. It is still very active fermentation. My question is does that yeast is normally in that chunky form? Any thing wrong...

My APA is bitter, very bitter! I deeped in grain while the water was too hot (170F), and that makes my beer bitter. What should I do now?

I got mix opinions over this question, let do a poll and see the number.

Hello, After 8 batches with both DME and LME, I think that DME produces better beer than LME, especially with ales. Better aroma and after-taste. I know 8 brews maybe not enough for a conclusion like that, but just want to get more inputs from you all. what do you say?

After racking to secondary carboy, I was trying to push in the airlock bung and talking to my friend at the same time, then "pooop" it's in. All the way in! I managed to pull the bung up and tied two nails on the airlock just to hold the bung up and seal the carboy. So far, it is sealed and...

After racking to secondary of my honey porter, I kept the bottom yeast in my beer bottle and place it in my fridge (35F), sealed close with cap. I thought I could do another batch the following weekend reusing the yeast. Well, it's been two months already. Can I still use it now? The liquid...

Hello, If I want to increase 2% of alcohol level in my 5 gal kit beer, how much sugar should I put in? When to add the sugar? and is table sugar good enough? Thanks.

Hello, My honey poter is 1/4 full and is bitter and sour (a bit). My hefe (1/2 full) is sweet and banana smell. I don't like either of them. I am thinking of mixing the two together. Yay or nay? What do you think the result will be like?

Hello all, Does it happen to anyone else? This is the second time it happens to me. The beer is getting sourer as the keg approaching about 1/4 full. Is it due to more CO2 in the beer? or somehow it gets spoilage from the pony tap line (which never got removed from the keg)? First keg: brown...

What do you do with kegs that does not have hatches or relief valves, or in/out poles? I have couple of them.

Hello, I just bought 10 ball lock disconnects for corny kegs from a friend who is no more HB, brought them home and now I realize that I don't know which ones are for air (in) and which are for liquid (out). Is there a way to tell which is which? Thanks.

Twice I printed out recipes, which had 6-7 different ingredients, from the web (hefe and porter) and brought them to my LHBS and they didn't carry some of the ingredients. They chopped down the recipe and what I got was DME+one bag of hop+one bag of grain+yeast, instead of two, three different...

I am about to place an order of some kegs, but wonder if anyone tried before. Please give some feedbacks on the experience. Thanks.

Hi, I cap a bottle for the first time from my kegged beer. After capping, if I hold the bottle and twist the cap, the cap move or rotate a bit. I try the same with Heneiken and the cap does not move/rotate. Is it normal? How do I know if there is a leak? Thanks.