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This was made for my daughter back in February. She was born in March. It has been sitting in secondary carboy after getting it down to .998 which took 3 months or so. I saved a small amount in another container and tasted it now and again till it was gone. It is 17% abv and was very...

I am going to pick up 2 kegs sometime this weekend. I am going to order a bulkhead and pickup tube from bargainfittings. My question comes into which inside the vessel fitting to chose. I want to use the 90* side pick up dip tube. So which fitting do I need? Also what is the harm in using...

Convinced SWMBO to let me get kegging. I bought a Danby kegerator off craiglist for $250. Got myself another faucet and mounted them in the dinning room. The kegerator sits in a closet behind the taps. I ran some PVC pipe and haven't yet but will put a fan to keep that cool...

Picked up a Danby kegerator that will hold a full keg. I plan to run the lines through a wall with the fridge in the closet behind said wall. What else do I need to buy besides some cornies?

Well I have brewed many ales and even have 1 mead going right now but never a lager. My dad has pestered me, at why I don't make any beers he likes, for a while now. Don't judge him yet he is far from a BMC drinker. Recently he told me he tried Blue Moon and liked it. Then I told him it is...

I was just reading some posts on how bottling sucks and how kegging is so much better. I have been brewing for a year and a half and have only bottled. My hope however is that I have only 2 more batches to bottle. I have made 17 batches of beer but 2 are currently fermenting. They are both...

The height won't be a problem if I bend down the bottom portion of the freezer element. Width might be tight with 2 in there but I think it will work. How can I get the hoses up through the top through the draft tower? If I leave the top of the freezer element like it is and just bend the...

Brewing with high efficiency numbers can cause some level of tannin extraction. Is there any other negatives to getting 80+ efficiency numbers? I only ask because I routinely get about 85 and shared this with a fellow homebrewer. He tried to say that this was not going to turn out as good...

I was using an old spatula and it didn't work well. This should work much better. Hand carved maple paddle. Gonna try it out on 2 brews today. I will let you know how it works.

Next Sunday is my birthday. My wife asked what I wanted to do for my birthday and my response was to brew a batch of beer. I got to thinking about this and decided 1 batch on my birthday was just not enough I better make it 2. So I am looking for some suggestions on how I should go about it...

Today was a great brew day. Weather was beautiful and while I wanted to get the Harley out and take it for a ride the brew was 1st on my list. First let me say that today my wife helped me make the beer and her help was appreciated but she didn't feel like she did much. I guess I should make...

I have brewed 4 batches. All 4 used specialty grains. 3 were from extract the 4th came from a homebrew contest. I started with 6 gallons of wort that came from pilsner malt. I have a 5 gallon beverage cooler with a SS braid. I am going to batch sparge. The first AG beer I make is going...

I am ready to move to all grain. I have done 3 extract brews all using specialty grain. I also got 6 gallons of second running from Iron Hill brewpub for a brew contest last week and brewed a batch with that. Brewing the batch with the second runnings has produced a much better tasting beer...

I just brewed a chocolate stout it was my 3rd brew. The first was a wheat that turned out drinkable but not a good beer. I wouldn't buy it. The second turned out awesome it was a brown ale that I added some cherry whiskey soaked oak chips into secondary. I really wanted to brew this...

This was my first batch of homebrew. It is dunkelweizen recipe by brewers best. I know I over steeped the grains the temp got up over 180 for less than 5 minutes. I will never let that happen again. I can taste the tannins in it although I hope they will mellow with some age. I made a...

I just got done brewing my first batch of beer. It is sitting down in the basement air lock in place waiting to ferment. I did lots of reading, lots of researching, and talked to several home brewers. I read John Palmers book 2 maybe 3 times and several sections more than that. After all...

Hi my name is Bryan. I live in Mount Holly NJ. I have been wanting to brew beer for about a year now. Last year I bought John Palmers book and read it. Then I read over several parts more than once. For many reasons I never went further than reading about brewing. I talked to a guy at work...