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So my mom dumped about 5 gallons of (edit: concord) grapes on my door this weekend to make wine with. So I destemmed and washed them and then used my hand mixer to puree those babies. Now I have what amounts to a sludge, do I need to add more water? Lots of water? Sugar? I also had about a...

I was tempted to keep this to myself but nah, here goes! I ordered my next few brew kits from NB last week. In the "order comments" I put something like "I sure wish I had more Northernbrewer glasses in my collection, hint, hint" So I got my order in yesterday and they'd put 2 of their...

So back in like 2002 or 2003 I bought a couple snakes. An albino female and a het for albino (means he carries the gene but doesn't display it and looks normal) male boa for the cool sum of $1000 delivered from a breeder in Chicago. They ate and grew: Sometime last year, late...

So I have a black ipa that's ready for the dry hopping portion, do I just pitch the hops in there? Do I boil them a few minutes for sanitation purposes then toss them in? I'm going to transfer to a secondary fermenter and add the hops and bottle Friday or Saturday.

http://huntsville.craigslist.org/bfs/1599817795.html Oh my look at that, holy crap I want that in my (still unbuilt) garage Here's the text:

So I did my first AG this weekend and I use bottling buckets as primary and went to let a sample out last night and it was downright sludgy so I'm guessing AG has loads more trub/sediment/goop on the bottom as a DME/LME kit will have, correct? Or did I perhaps do something wrong? Like when...

Has anyone ever modified a paper shredder into a grain mill? I did a search for "paper shredder" and got no hits. Am I to believe I had a new idea no one else has had? I was just looking at my shredder, and it looks like if you turned it upside down and hit the reverse button you'd be...

Oh tested my water today, my Ph is lowish in the 6.0-6.5 range out of my drinking filter, and my hardness (both measurements) are pretty damned hard. This is an imperial stout, is it going to like the hardness and Ph or should I consider running to Lowe's for 5 gallons of bottled water to use...

I just got home with one of these: On clearance for $34.99 at Home Depot. Deal or no deal? Got the stuff I need to convert my 10 gallon SS pot into a self contained kettle so I can cook in the basement or outside (my dryer plug is right by the window in the basement). I suppose I could...

So I made a 2 can 5 gallon batch of Munton's Bock, and guess I sorta misjudged my addons. Ended up with a SG of 1.110! I hydrated and started a packet of Nottingham and one of the packs that came with the Bock and it was nice and foamy and looking good. It's in the basement where the...

Don't go all He-Man on the bottle capper! Yeah guess I gave it a little too much oomph!

Now that I'm finally getting into this whole homebrew thing, there's just something wrong drinking beer out of a plain brown bottle. So I asked my kid for some ideas and we came up with Bowser Brau and he was like Bowser could be holding a beer. Now my first bottling I just whipped up a...

So I brewed a Northern Brewer American Wheat Kit this past Sunday http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/american-wheat-beer-extract-kit-2.html And I pretty much tried to follow the instructions step by step and it never mentioned taking out the hops after the boil? I just let out a...

Relax, not to drink (though I did take a drink, it's still obviously young) but for this: Kroger had whole ribeyes for $4.99 (what happened to $2.99 dang!) so I had my wife grab a 19 pounder and had her have them slice it up but also to leave me one nice 4 pounder to smoke in my UDS...

I bottled Saturday after 17 days in the fermenter. SG was stable. Used the recommended amount of bottling sugar. So I opened one today to use in a marinade and that thing was fizzy! It flowed over the top of the bottle when I popped the cap. Is this normal? Also I felt my PET bottles...

Munton's Nut Brown Ale premix can 1 lb Dark DME 1 lb Corn Sugar 1.046 at 78F and 5 US Gallons Pitched the yeast in when it was around 84F Put the lid on and put it in the basement on 12/31/09 FG was 1.012 making an ABV of around 4.8% Just bottled it, I used a variety of bottles to see...

This is the text, see attached image, should I check it out or is this way too much for $350 (it's local of course to me)?

I bought: 2 "bottling buckets" 2 Lids with the hole already in it for the air lock 2 air locks 2 bags of "bottling sugar", corn sugar, each is enough for a 5 gal batch Hydrometer and test tube 3 bags of the sanitizer stuff, makes 2.5 gallons per bag 2 1 lb bags of Dark DME 2 cans, one...

My basement stays about 63-64, my kitchen about 66-68 and my computer room 74-76, I'm reading up and it looks like my basement should be the perfect place to ferment right? I plan to start with a Mr Beer to get my feet wet and then as time and energy and ambition allow upgrade to something...

Apparently one of the forums favorite vendors is about 7.7 from where I'm sitting (at work) kegkits.com :) I actually came here from a google search for kegkits.com since I'm looking to do some homebrewing and a maps.google.com search for "home brewing" yields kegkits is local and 3 negative...