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For all you building a grain mill. The motor I used to power mine is on sale for $39.99. Just an FYI :D...

I have not used carb drops, but was thinking about them recently and now I have a question. When I go to put the priming sugar into my bottling bucket to prime i always boil it for a few minuets to sanitize it, but if i was to use carb drops how do i sanitize them? I'm guessing you don't...

I bought a grain mill a couple batches ago and right out of the box knew I was not going to use the handle. So I started to use my drill to crush grain, but found a problem with that. I needed three hands ! ! ! ! ! Trying to hold the drill, the top of the mill so it would not come off the...

I have been looking at the recipes I would like to brew soon and was wondering if I could use Crystal 60 and not 40 or 80. Of course I would need to adjust the amounts a little. I'm thinking 1 lb of 40 = 2/3 lb of 60 and 1 lb of 80 = 1 1/3lb of 60 Any thoughts.

I was surfing and found this carboy. I like the idea of no ribs due to me having yeast sit on the rib and fall into the beer when siphoning it, also it makes cleaning easier. Also the price seems to be a little cheaper than Better Bottles. Carboys Gregg

My daughter and I brewed our first beer together. I have brewed about 10 batches so far and while my daughter was home from NYC she wanted to brew.:rockin: We brewed a Blond Ale from a kit, and she made a label. I thought I would share the label here. I may be biased, but I think it's pretty...

This past weekend I brewed a Pilsner. I used 7.5 lb of LD Carlson Pilsen Light DME for 6g of water. If you assume 42 gravity points per lb per gal the OG should have been 1.0525, but my gravity turned out to be 1.042. What could have gone wrong? I have had problems with low OG before, but...