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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...

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...

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...

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...

Greetings. I'm looking to make an ingredients purchase, and was going to try to brew a recipe from Papazian's Microbrewed Adventures. Looking at sources like homebrew.com, austinbrewer.com, or even morebeer.com, it looks like many of the hop varieties are not currently available (at...

Probably going to Target and/or Home Depot today, and on the advice of some folks here, am going to look for a cheaper way than the Fermentation Jackets I found on morebeer.com to keep my carboys cool during primary fermentation. I know this may be obvious to everyone, but a simple picture or...

Greetings. I've done some searching on this in the archives, so I'm partly just asking for some folks to reassure me, and partly asking if my temps are OK. I brewed an extract American Pale Ale kit on Monday night. The wort was about 76 degrees when I pitched the yeast at around 11pm. By...

Finally got around to brewing that American Pale Ale last night. Extract with specialty grains from a local homebrew supply store. Things were going along fine, and I was being extremely careful about sanitizing everything coming near the beer until literally the very last step. I...

Greetings. I'm getting back into homebrewing after some attempts over the last several years with variable levels of success. I hoped to brew a kit from a local HBS yesterday which I'm now planning on brewing tonight. Next, I have new grains and liquid yeast I overbought last week which...

Greetings. I think I last brewed a batch about 2 years ago. I had also purchased a kit from homebrew.com at the time which I never got around to brewing. I assume the grains are now stale and not use-able. Is that right? How about the hop pellets? And the DME? All of that is nicely...

Hi, all. Thought I'd pop in and give an unsolicited update since you've helped me so much already with my beginner questions. I brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale using the two-step method from BYO magazine a few weeks ago. Went about 2 weeks in the primary. It fermented like crazy for the first...

Greetings. My Belgian Blonde, which looks more like a Belgian Brunette, has been in the primary fermenter for a week and a day now. It bubbled like mad for several days, and is now down to maybe once every 20 seconds. I want to move this to a secondary fermenter at some point since there's...

Greetings. I just brewed a Belgian Blonde Ale using that two-step method (half of a full boil on day one, the other half the next morning). It's now bubbling away like mad in my primary, and I plan to transfer it to a secondary 5 gallon carboy a day or so after it stops bubbling. The brew...