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Hey guys, I've recently moved to kegging and am interested in cold crashing to clarify my beers as much as possible. I've read a little on gelatin and will consider that as well, but am trying to take this in baby steps. What I haven't been able to find is a step-by-step of how people...

Hey guys, Now that I've finally gotten my keezer built and running and everything going into kegs, I'd like to get a Beergun to bottle some brew for taking elsewhere with me. I've read that the Beergun kits as they come don't include everything you need to hook up the gun to the keg and gas...

HBT! I've been away a long time, but I've been busy! I just wanted to share pictures of my keezer that I could have never finished without help from the awesome people here. Not bad for a completely amateur woodworker if I dare say so myself. Even the pre-wife (who doesn't like beer)...

Hey folks, I'm still pretty new, but have my 4th batch of Apfelwein conditioning using EdWort's recipe that everybody here knows. The last few batches I've tried mixing things up a bit to see how different ingredients would affect the final product. I've got plenty of friends that love the...

Hey guys, I'm trying to step up my brewing from extract with steeping grains to partial mash. I'm brewing a double chocolate stout from AHS tomorrow. The instructions say to mash and boil 2 gallons but I recently got my full boil setup going. I realize that I'll get better hop utilization...

Hey guys, I'm working on my keezer and bought a 4-keg Midwest kit that came with picnic taps because I wanted to get Perlick faucets instead of the faucets that came with their kit that included them. As such, I need to get shanks and tails to connect the 3/8" hose to the faucets, but am...

Hey guys, I tried my first batch last week (a nut brown ale) after a month in primary (no secondary) and 2 1/2 weeks conditioning in the bottles (I figured that was close enough to 3 weeks :fro:). Long story short, it's horrible. I got about 1/3 of the way through the bottle but couldn't...

Hey guys! I picked up a 7 cu ft freezer yesterday to start my keezer build. I'm planning on a completely unapologetic and blatant rip-off of Jester's keezer (I should send him a case of beer or something). The freezer can fit 4 ball locks and a CO2 tank. This morning I started shopping...

Hey guys, Living in So. Cal. we have relatively consistent temps in the winter that are pretty close to ideal for brewing beer (I have my primaries stored in my bar downstairs and they haven't strayed from 67-68 in weeks). In the summer it gets hot in my part of town...stupid hot. I...

I was wrapping up bottling my IPA yesterday when I realized I had 20 minutes to shower and get to by buddy's house to watch the Charger game. In a hurry, I filled my 5g carboy up with Oxyclean and let it soak. I got back to it today (about 30 hours later) and have a white ring around the...

I brewed a Scottish Red Ale on Xmas Eve and have it sitting happily at 68* in my 6.5g primary. I'm not concerned about fermentation, I can see a good 2-3" thick layer of krausen through the bucket, but oddly, I've gotten absolutely 0 airlock activity with this beer. I'm assuming that means...

Hey guys. This is my first shot at piecing together a recipe rather than buying a kit. I'm calling this a knock off as opposed to a clone because I took several Ruination clone recipes out there and, with my extremely limited knowledge, tried to combine them in Beersmith to come up with...

I brewed my fourth batch today and realised that I'd left the hops unrefrigerated with my grains in my wine cellar which is independently air conditioned and maintains a temp of 60 degrees. I went ahead and brewed anyway thinking I could take some advice from you guys and maybe moderately dry...

Gents, With much help from this forum, I bottled my first batch of homebrew tonight. The only thing that has me a little concerned is that I tasted the sample I took for a final gravity reading and it tasted a little watered down. Not bad, certainly not infected (woo hoo!), but maybe...

Hey folks, I'm bottling my first batch tonight. It's a nut brown ale from Brew Organics. They sent a small bag of DME to use for priming but I cannibalized it for a yeast starter for a batch of IPA I've got going. I don't have the full recipe on hand, but is there any reason to use DME...

I just tasted (and immediately dumped) my first infected commercial brew. It was a Nectar Ales IPA. 3 bottles into a sixer and the 4th was nasty! Super sweet banana taste. The 5th is fine. Hey, atleast I know what to hope my first batch doesn't taste like! The dog like it though! :)

Hey guys! I brewed my third batch last night (still haven't gotten to try the first one dang it! This patience thing is hard!) It's a clone of Pike's Pale Ale from Midwest Supplies. Recipe is: 6 lb. gold malt extract 2 lb. Amber DME 8 oz. Munich malt 8 oz. Carapils malt 1 lb...

Hey guys. I'm planning to rack my first batch to secondary on Monday. I realized now that I may have screwed the pooch. I used a 5gal carboy for my primary and the secondary is 6 gallons. Obviously I switched the two. I've heard that minimizing head space in the secondary is important and...

I'll be the first to admit that I jump into things quickly. Sometimes too quickly, but the brew bug bit, sank it's fangs in good and I'm completely smitten! It's been a whopping 4 days since I boiled my first wort. After reading all the rave reviews of EdWort's apfelwein I decides I had to...

Hey guys! I brewed my first batch, a Nut Brown Ale from Brew Organic, last night. Oddly they included 2 yeasts in the kit, a liquid White Labs English Ale Yeast and a packet of Safale S-05 Ale Yeast as well. I wasn't sure what to do with both packages of yeast, so I only pitched the White...