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There are a lot of people that add coffee to their beer and that has quite a bit of caffeine. I have added caffeine powder to a lawnmower light once, with out sterilization it caused gushers, probably about 3 grams for 5 gals. Go to the vitamin store and get yourself some caffeine gel caps...

Looking for 12 oz. or 22 oz. bottles in Los Angeles.

I have two Barley wines that I have been aging for a few months and for some reason there was a lot of bitterness and flavor a couple of weeks ago and now its gone. They are both stored in Cornies. What could cause this?

Just made a starter with the split up yeast vial and its going good.

Home made with some agar agar and wort. It works pretty good. I have also split a White labs vial into 15 empty vial with wort and let the ferment for a few days with the caps loose, then stored in the fridge. I need to make a starter each time to get the yeast count up. They have been in...

Making beer is by far one of the most enjoyable things that I have ever done. A person can never finish tweaking with a hobby like this.

I like to keep some strong barley wine around to slow any heavy drinkers down. I usually have the few friend that I brew for buy all the ingredients and a little extra for the time.

I made mine from 3/8" x 20' copper tube. No fancy fittings, I just squeeze the 3/8" tube from the sink faucet onto the tube and chill. I just give it a quick rinse after I put it away and before I use it again, boil to sanitize.

5 months in and around 20 batches done. Thinking about half barrel batches now. I have been working with all-grain from my third month in.

I'm going to make an all grain Bock with the Mr. Beer, we will see how that turns out. It should fit in the fridge nicely.

Racked the barley wine onto the WLP001 yeast cake and nothing. That's all she wrote.

I was able to accurately calculate out a cider recipe for BeerSmith. It was for frozen apple juice concentrate. It's kind of stupid for the way you have to do it to get it to work. The apple juice concentrate that I used, when properly mixed with water, has a gravity of 1.045. I...

I'm gonna rack my Barley Wine onto a WLP001 yeast cake left from a pale ale I made. I am going to see if it will go down a little more from 1.040. White Labs says that the WLP001 is more tolerant than the WLP007. The key is to start with a whole bunch of yeast. I have heard bad...

My WLP007 pooped out at 11.6% on a Barley Wine. S.G. 1.130 so far it has made it to 1.040. Only a 1 gal. starter with 1 lb DME used with a stir plate.

I use apple juice concentrate to start so the beginning gravity will be much higher than what you could get with apple juice alone. Add in a little brown sugar maybe some honey. I actually use ale yeast to make cider and it turns out great.

I have brewed three and bottled two. Fourteen hours later and one very tired human being.

I have made some excellent cider from apple juice concentrate, honey, brown sugar, pumpkin spice mix, and some ale yeast. You can use any beer bottle or any other bottle that used to hold a carbonated drink. I have been using Pelegrino and Perrier bottles lately.

Has anyone ever used a Mr.Beer for a lager? I want to cut a 5 Gal lager kit in half and put the whole Mr.Beer in the Fridge.

I just switched to StarSan for all the plastic. I am not a fan of iodine.

How does it taste, smell?