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Thanks for the tips and the welcome. Good peeps here in this forum happy brewing!

Greetings- I've been following this site for a while and have gotten some great tips from you guys. I just moved from the doldrums of rural Nevada the very hoppy beer scene in Eugene. I'm looking for some others here who are brewing and tasting in Eugene. I'm aware of the Cascade Brewers...

My caps are ancient! Never thought of that. Thanks for the tip. Off to the home brew store.

I was thinking about that but wouldn't bad water also effect the primary fermentation as well?

So I've been brewing off and on for 7-8 years, extract only and bottles only. I've brewed in San Francisco, Denver, and now by Lake tahoe. Since I moved to the Nevada/tahoe area I've had a problem with flat beer. The last 4 batches consisted of Red Ale, Celebration Ale clone, Hefeweisen, and...

I decided to scrap that one. I'll wait it out and save my pennies for a Sanyo or pre-made kegerator. Thanks for everyone's advice.

Thanks for the tips. From the GE website it looks like it is one of those slide out freezer compartments so the cold air is coming from the top. I'll bring a keg to measure and check for coolant lines. If I go with a chest freezer instead, how difficult is the conversion? I have heard that...

Hey there. I'm SLOWLY getting closer to my kegerator as I have been waiting for the right used fridge on craigslist. A guy has a GE 4.4 cubic foot fridge for sale that I am gonna look at tomorrow. Anyone converted one of these before? I have read alot on here about Sanyo, Kenmore, and Danby...

This may seem like a crazy question but I have recently, as many here have said, gotten tired of bottling and have recently purchased two corny kegs. I have a batch of hefeweisen that has been sitting in bottles for two months. The beer in the bottles never carbonated but tastes pretty good...

Good to see another eastern sierra brewer here. I live down in minden. The guy at reno homebrewer is great and they have alot in their shop. Cheers!

Yeah, I used the normal 3/4 cup sugar with 1 cup water as I always have. I used regular caps, not the twist off type. I do have the bottles in a different part of the house than where I fermented it. That could be the problem. Thanks fof the advice.

So I brewed a hefeweisen for the first time and all has been good from boil to fermentation to bottling. It has been sitting in bottles for almost 2 weeks now. I sampled one yesterday and it is still flat. Any ideas on what might be going on? Should I just wait longer? The taste is fine and...

The guys at Brew at Home in Westminster are great. I used them exclusively when I lived there. They are very helpful and offer classes and group tastings as well. They are in the industrial park behind CB and Potts.

Thanks, I guess that means I have to taste more of my beer for myself until then. This is a great site and I hope to learn alot.

I've been brewing off and on for 6 years now and am looking at finding some like minded brewers in the South Lake tahoe/Minden/Carson City area. Let me know if anyone out there is interested. Cheers:mug:

Looking for some folks interested in starting a homebrew club in the south lake tahoe/carson valley area. post a reply or email me: [email protected] if you are interested. Cheers!

I actually live up in the carson city area but found in my online searching that there is a vegas club called SNAFU but I don't know their web address. I'm looking to start a homebrew club up here but have had no luck so far. Happy brewing!

I had a batch look jusdt like that. It looked strange and I was worried it had gotten moldy/oxygenated/F'd up but I went ahead and bottled it. I waited for it to mellow awhile, like 2 months and it tastes pretty good now. The lesson I learned is that it is hard to f-up beer. Bad batches may not...

Appreciate the rapid and helpful response. I'll go ahead and bottle it. Cheers:mug:

July 13th I brewed a batch of Red Ale from ingredients I bought online. I was wondering while brewing if this batch would take b/c the package left on my doorstep sat in the sun all day and the ice pack to keep the yeast and hops cool was long melted. I brewed anyway and initially had nothing...