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Awesome, I should be enjoying a frosty mug of my own personal keg beer soon then. Thanks, and Cheers :mug:

So I've been thinking of spending some money on myself this christmas and building a kegerator for my homebrew. The main problem I have is I don't actually keg my beer yet, so I'll need to get equipment to do that as well. When I was looking at all the equipment it seemed to me like you use...

Hey all, I'm looking to try something new with my brewing, and was looking to experiment with something new. I tried the Hebrew beer Origin, an amber ale with pomegranate juice, and was wondering if anyone knew a similar recipe to this, but I'd like to try substituting the pomegranate with...

Chilling it helped a lot. The carbonation was great, now I just need to work out how to get the beer to taste better. But I guess that's what the years of brewing ahead of me are for haha

From doing some reading, I'm thinking it must be the 48 hours that's doing it. I didn't realize that cooling your beer was so vital to the carbonation, so I was just getting it cold enough to consume and going from there. I've moved all the bottles I plan on consuming soon (so basically all of...

I keep it in a temperature controlled basement at about 68F and it's been down there for close to 8 or 9 weeks now, and that's what I'm getting. It's an IPA, with about 5.5% ABV. The beer seems to be ready, and I have no problems with it other than the carbonation seems to be off. On another...

This seems kind of strange to me, but I have some concerns about the carbonation of my beer. I'm fairly new so this might just be something with homebrews that I'm not used to but here's the situation: Whenever I pour my beers, I get really good head formation and good head retention, to the...

I had the same experience with my second brew. I tasted it with an uncle who used to homebrew and I kept telling him that there was this flavor I couldn't describe that just shouldn't be there. It really bothered me and I thought the beer had turned out bad, but he insisted there was nothing...

I am kind of a science nerd, so I mostly would want to do it just to learn more about the whole process from an in depth perspective. I would like to work as a brewer/brewmaster, but I also think it would be really neat to be able to do some research and try do develop new ways of brewing and...

I'm getting ready to graduate with my Bachelor's in chemical engineering, and I'm really interested in getting into brewing when I graduate. I know there are plenty of programs such as those at Siebel and UC Davis to learn brewing, but I was wondering if there are any advanced degrees that you...

Just out of curiosity... I have been reading "The Brewmaster's Bible" by Stephen Snyder, and in his book he reccomends bottling ales after about a week in a fermenter "as long as fermentation is over," and goes as far as to say that after 10-14 days in the primary the ale should be transferred...

It was a True Brew partial grains kit, came with 2 cans of unhopped malt extract, grains, 2 packets of hop pellets, oak chips, ale yeast, priming sugar and bottling caps. Most of the directions for making the wort seemed pretty good, but it was just the part where it says to wait only 3-4 days...

So I just started my second batch of beer (hopefully my first successful batch) and have been doing a lot of reading on this site. I noticed that while the instructions that came with my IPA kit say I only need to let the beer sit in the fermenter for 3-4 days before bottling and letting it age...

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately I'm a poor college kid so right I'd prefer to avoid buying new equipment if possible. I'm going to try letting it soak and washing with soap and water and hope that it works out. I'll let you know how it ends up. And thanks for the soft cloth advice, I...

So I'm very new to this, and I know this is terrible, but after my first batch of beer I was negligent and forgot to clean out my equipment right away. When I went back later to clean it out, I had mold growing in my fermentation and bottling buckets. I immediately rinsed them out, but now I'm...