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Greetings everyone, So batch #3 for me was a Brewer's Best Dunkelweizen kit. I believe this was the recipe: 6.6 lb. Wheat LME, 1 lb. Maltodextrin, 8 oz. Chocolate Malt, 8 oz. Munich Malt, 5 oz. Vanguard Bittering Hops, 1 oz. Argentine Cascade Aroma Hops, and Munich Danstar Yeast (I found...

Hey everyone, Brewing our 3rd beer tonight and something occurred to me. Previously, we would always just pour the beer from the brew pot into the primary by just dumping it in and doing our best to keep the sediment at bay. Usually that doesn't work too well and there's a ton of hoppy goo...

So I just finished bottling a pumpkin spice porter (from a kit) and I realized that I may have done something stupid. I'm trying to RDWHAHB, but I can't help but think I've tainted a whole batch. I was at my LHBS and I got a plastic 6 gallon carboy (you know, before I discovered the...

I am getting ready to prep bottles and I have decided to give the oxiclean+warm water method a go, but reading the threads there is one detail that is unclear to me. Do I: 1. Just throw all the bottles into the solution and fill them up with the oxiclean solution to weigh them down (i.e...

The family has been collecting wine and beer bottles to be used for homebrew, but I guess not everyone has been rinsing them out thoroughly, so some of the bottles are growing spore colonies of ... who knows what. I have Easy Clean and Iodophor -- if I fill the bottles with the Easy Clean...

I have finished brewing my very first batch of homebrew (an American Pale Ale from a kit)! I made the rookie mistake of following the kit directions and let the beer ferment only one week in the primary (no secondary), added the priming sugar that came with the kit, and bottled. I was so...