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So, I haven't been able to brew for a year or so, and now we're gearing up to renovate the basement, and I need space cleared. So, I have about 9 cases of empty 12 oz bottles to dispose of. All bottles are rinsed out and clean (albeit pretty dusty) and about half have had the labels soaked off...

Well, this isn't gonna solve the no-fermentation issue, but it will allow you to drink carbonated beer... About 4 years ago my mom bought me a seltzer bottle for Christmas. It took me forever to find the appropriate CO2 canisters for it, and then I really lacked any ideas for what to do with...

I am pretty certain the the bottling sugar is intact in there. I actually took 2 bottles, dumped them into a seltzer bottle, primed it with Nitrous (I've a friend inclined to teenage hooliganisms) and the carbed right up. Had the classic Guiness head, but tasted pretty bad due the excess...

Ok, so this isn't my first rodeo, but I'm not an old hand. This is a new problem for me, never happenned before. I brewed 3 batches of beer on the same yeast, dropping new wort on top of the lees. I started with a mild red lager, then a Pilsner, then an Imperial Pilsner. Each beer...

So what's the advantage/result of saving half the malt for the last 10 minutes? I'm not a big stout guy, either, but a friend has asked for (and is subsidizing) a stout brew for his 40th this summer, so I'm looking into suitable recipes. Thanks

I went to Bangkok for a long weekend and Phuket for a week, both with missus Marshman. We ate ourselves silly. We took a river dinner cruise, took in all the temples at night, and a daytime tour that involved some river cruising and some bussing, and included the 3 temple area (can't remember...

Well, I had a couple brews go kerFLOOie on me last winter/spring and I got a bit gun shy, but I got my nerve up and jumped back in. I brewed a Pale Ale last week and I've got a Nut Brown about to go on the lees as we speak. I missed it. I forgot how wonderful the house smells when you brew...

How 'bout this one? http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1978705,00.html I thought freezing homebrew a la apple jack was a legal no-no. AND dangerous as all git-out.

I read this online this morning--kinda scared me a little. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100411/us_time/08599197870500 I dunno, that just don't seem right. And isn't 'freeze-distillation' kinda illegal?

That's the money he could be saving with Geico... Seriously, I've been contemplating a Ginger beer for next summer, so that's a nice reference point. Just to be clear, it's a 5 gallon batch with just 3/4 of an ounce of (pretty potent) bittering hops? Any idea how Candied ginger would play...

We did it almost 15 years ago at a joint called "America U Brew", and had a pretty good time. They had helpful staff, all the ingredients, and a computer set up special for label design. We went back a few weeks later and bottled. That chain is long gone from this area, but I can tell you we...

I made three straight batches of Wheat beer on one vial of yeast and they all turned out great. 'Standard' hefe, dunkel weiss, then a blueberry. Most of my reading suggested that pitching on a trub more than twice was asking for trouble, so after the third batch, I tried a 'wash' and then...

Stewarts, all the way down at 40 & 7? Do we have a closer one to the PA/MD/DE tri-zone? My wife & I are pretty close to WC, and I enjoy their fare pretty universally...a little uppity, perhaps, but not bad. I wouldn't mind most of it being about 10% cheaper, but they are upscale places in...

A great many years ago I picked up a 4-pack of some French-brewed beer that had been made with 'scotch grains', whatever that means. It had a very nice scotch-y flavor, but alas, I've been unable to find it again here in the US (I picked it up in Zurich, or all places). My beer bottle...

Well, lagers tend to prefer a long, very cool secondary, as opposed to the shortish ale secondary periods, but this is homebrew--do what ever you like, all that matters is that you report back to us how it worked for ya. I'm curious, never having done it myself!

Boy, THAT'S all I needed to know--I could just drink my starters!!! Actually, I just sampled my latest India/American Pale Ale as it was flowing from primary to secondary, and it's been the first of many recent brews I haven't been inclined to consume right then & there. Must be the 750 of...

Whaddaya figger, 2 laps per set of tires? Dat's a baaaaad sumbich, dere.

To be honest, YB, I thought your 'handle' was different and you had the dominatrix avatar, and back then I knew. When I saw the different pic, I thought it was a different person. Like you said, the gender of the person on the other end doesn't matter too much for the purposes of this forum...

Oops. My bad. But in the spirit of the expression, it still holds true. 'Nuff said.

Wasn't technically a vanity tag, but this has just become my all time favorite. It's a Euro-style plate, long, rectangular white with Black lettering, on one of them new W-12 Audis (where I saw it) and read: AVO 3VOM When you see it in your rearview, it reads "MOVE OVA" I want one.