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Hi guys, I am starting to brew heavily now. My buddy came back after a month of work and he thinks the brewing idea is really cool so I've convinced him to join me in brewing. He bought a fermenter and yesterday we spent about 6-7 hours brewing (and drinking a lot!) The beer I made was...

So, I brewed my third batch with the help of a friend on Friday. I found a recipe and then tweaked it a ton to fit my ingredients. It is a stout containing: -5/3 c roasted barley -10 oz brown sugar -1.5 oz Mt. Hood (bittering) -1.25 oz Northern Brewer (flavor) -.5 oz Mt. Hood (aroma) -8 lbs...

Hi everyone; I bottled my second batch yesterday; an oatmeal stout. Unfortunately, it tastes pretty much the same as the pale ale I made (at least when they were both flat). Now I am going to make another stout (of the non-oatmeal variety) and I just took a look at the hops I have. I have a...

I was really excited today to brew two new recipes after the success of my first (well, it's still bottling, but even flat it tasted great, my roommate described it as tasting somewhat like Fat Tire - flattering since they all like Flat Tire) Since I enjoy dark beer, I was going to make a...

Well, after two weeks, it was time to bottle the beer. For my first beer ever, I just wanted to try it out asap. First thing I did was take off the airlock and smell the liquid to see if it had become anything. Smelled like beer, good... When racking it into the bottling bucket I nearly...

If anyone else is on the West Coast... the heat wave has been nearly unbearable for me. It got up to 103 in Seattle (was 96 in my hometown yesterday!). Well, I can survive, got a nice tan out of it — but my brew... it was up to 77 yesterday (I put it in a cold water bath, but that didn't seem...

I was just reading through Palmer's recipe for the Cincinnati Pale Ale I brewed on Saturday morning and realized I was supposed to add half of the malt extract in first, and then the rest near the end of the boil. But I just dumped it all in to start with (~6 lbs LME). He says this could...

Hey guys, So I took the plunge, bought the equipment, tried to build my own wort chiller (and failed), got all of my ingredients for John Palmer's Cincinnati Pale Ale yesterday and for the last two hours have been brewing. My brewing pot is now sitting in a bathtub full of cold water, which...

I was reading in the book "How to Brew" that, after you wash your equipment to get it clean you can put your items in your oven and cook at 340F for an hour and this will sterilize your stuff. Obviously I wouldn't put plastic in there and would sanitize it using something else, and the stuff I...

Hi folks, Turned 21 in April, I like beer, and this morning I was reading another forum I regularly visit when I saw someone mention that one of their hobbies was home brewing. I didn't know you could do this! Spent the better part of the day looking up the process, the necessary equipment...