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Hi, everyone. I found two old approximately 2 year old Northern Brewer 1 gallon extract + specialty grain kits. They were kept at room temp for most of their lives. From what I am reading, the specialty grains, hops, malt extracts, and dry yeasts (expiration dates of December, 2015) are...

Thanks! I'll check out these options and see what I can make work between now and brew day....

Greetings. I finally received ingredients for the PM version of EdWort's Haus Pale Ale. This includes 1 lb of Crystal malt and 2 lbs of Vienna. Turns out the grains are not pre-crushed (I can't remember what I specified when I made the order, or if that was an option). I did some googling...

Sounds like a nice progression in terms of complexity of your brews. And I agree with your last statement about the difference being volume. For me, at least for batch sparging an all grain version of this recipe vs. doing it as a PM, that translates to "do I need to buy/build a MLT before my...

Cool. The question for me, then, is do I do a PM first or dive right in to all grain? I'm going to read a bit more about MLT options (I'm hoping I'm using the acronyms right) and then flip a coin. I eventually do want to do all grain, so we'll see. It seems the ingredients are about $10 less...

Thanks! I also have zero building skills, so if the price difference isn't huge, I'd rather buy something premade. That said, here's a video on the topic from youtube. The only part which looks at all complicated is making that tube in the bottom (I'm exposing my zero building skill set...

OK, it's possible that I can be talked into actually trying all grain here. I just read up a little about this batch sparging process, and it does look like it would simplify things tremendously from what I've previously read. Can you correct me if I'm wrong on any of this? Or point me in the...

Thanks. A couple of stupid questions: Can I put the grains in a grain bag to eliminate the need for straining? I saw something about this in an article from BYO posted elsewhere on this forum earlier today, and the author talked about submerging the bag and poking around on it with a spoon...

Thanks for the encouragement. I love the simplicity of this recipe, and also love reading about how so many folks here have tried it and rave about it. Unless I'm misreading, I can do this with just my 2 5 gallon pots and a strainer (maybe one other small pot I already have to heat more...

Blue stuff on top of the beer? Maybe you've created

Greetings. This post can probably go in any of 3 forums (this one, since it's a PM recipe, the extract one, since I'm an extract brewer, or the Beginner's forum, since I'm a noob...). So my apologies if this is misplaced. I'm very interested in doing the PM version of Edwort's Haus Pale...

This is fargin' awesome. Thanks for doing this, and great job!

I'm using some of NJ's finest tap water. I think it comes from some mythical mountain spring or something, and when you drink it, streamers and balloons fall from the ceiling and cheerleaders surround you to cheer you on. I can't substantiate any of those claims, but that's what I've noticed...

I guess I was assuming I'd be moving some unprimed beer into the pig, prime some in there, then move the rest of the unprimed beer into bottles, and bottle prime with carb tabs. But since I'm now going to use an intermediary (bottling bucket or other big pot), if I can get away with just...

I am totally new to the pig, and this will be my first run. But I'm making another purchase very shortly which is going to include ingredients for two more batches, so I was going to get two more pigs or tap a draft. Long story short - I'm ALSO looking for advice on pigging. Looks like I'm...

Thanks! Looking at that stuff makes me want to add a couple eggs, beat thoroughly, and bake a cake :) Yes, it is a bit warm in there. If you remember, this one started out way too hot before I realized that was important. I then did the water bath and towel trick suggested here and got...

Here are some pics. I guess there's more in here than I thought. Also, the pics are poor quality and make the beer look darker than it is. Should I be frightened? Taking a look, it almost looks like unmixed DME, though that makes no sense. Stuff on beer 1 Stuff on beer 2 Stuff on beer 3

OK - I will snap a picture when I get home. Not planning on dry hopping. I guess my biggest question is should I take that intermediate step of batch-priming by siphoning this into a 5 gallon pot with the boiled priming sugar, which would give me one extra shot of leaving stuff behind rather...

Greetings. My american pale ale will have been in the primary for 3 weeks on this upcoming Monday. I was hoping to bottle/pig this weekend if I get time. The beer has clarified, and lots of stuff has settled out to the bottom of the carboy. But there are still a few bunches of what appears...