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Bottled my English Porter on 12/11 and tried a few slightly carbed bottles over the holiday break... Taste good (bit green) but no head and no carb bite. I'm only slightly concerned, just seems slow to carb. The beer is an English Porter (loosely based on RCH Old Slug) two week primary...

Made the move to partial mash, 4 lbs of grain in a large sack, steeped fir 90 mins in preheated oven (read that advise here, cheers to whomever I owe credit). The rest was normal extract and hop additions. I was a little dissapointed with missing my OG, till I just thought of the temp...

Label for my newest batch, which was a clone of Rogue Dead Guy ale. a play on words, got me to Red Dog Eye and I went from there.

The first batch, A tribute to getting a brew kit for my birthday.

Brewed a dead guy ale clone kit this weekend. The kit was extract with about 2.5 lbs of specialty grains, so i took more of a mini-mash approach and worked hard on maintaing 150 degrees mash temp for about 45 minutes. Then strained and sparged prior to moving onto the normal extract additions...

Just finished bottling two batches of beer, and feel acomplished in doing a good job... But man the cleaning, cleaning, cleaning... Arghhhh! Bottling is easy if your only doing the filling part (SWMBO and my oldest son) but I de-labled, cleaned, sanitized over 100 bottles, and did all the...

Finally served my first batch of beer this weekend. crisp hiss when opened, nice carbonation, good head and light lacing. overall very pleased with the first result. considering the numerous newbie mistakes I made, I am real pleased and all the taste testers agree its a decent beer! I've got two...

Decided to try my luck with a small batch of cider today, scored a 1 gallon jug of pure apple juice at whole foods, heated 2 cups of it on the stove, and added 3/4 lb of light DME, then cooled it, added some Safale S-04 yeast and mixed it all back into the jug. capped with an airlock and now I...

I'm a new home brewer in milford CT, anyone in the area wanting to collaborate, bottle exchange etc, let me know. best regards, John

Newbie fail moment, brewing my Hefe right now, 10 minutes till boil is over, and realized the yeast is still in the fridge... Smack pack activated and warming in sanitizer... How long till I can pitch this? Any I'll effects with this mistake?

I want to make a hefeweizen, but my secondary will be tied up for the next 3 weeks with my stout. Can i get away with fermenting in the primary only, considering hefes are so yeasty.

Well I got a home brew kit for my birthday about 3 weeks ago... and now I've brewed my first two batches of beer, a Sierra Nevada clone aptly named Hoppy BIrthday IPA, which is currently bottle conditioning. and an Irish Dry Stout, which I brewed yesterday. Sadly/gladly if feels like I'm getting...