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Ok, I recently brewed Northern Brewer's Sierra Madre based off of all the solid reviews on their site. I washed and reused a batch of 1056 that I had from an earlier Chinook IPA that I did. I made a starter, and let it ferment for about three weeks. Beer tasted good going into the kegs...

I just bottled a Chinnok IPA from Northern Brewer last Sunday. I have to admit that I didn't check the gravity over three days, but the gravity at bottling time was 1.011 and have been in the fermentor for three weeks (OG was 1.052). I carbed with 4 oz. of corn sugar. The bottles sat in my...

My wife is from England and we spend a few weeks each summer there where I fell in love with a good English bitter. I currently bottle the bitters I brew. I'm contemplating buying a beer engine, but want to keep the cost down as much as possible and I don't have a current draft setup. Since...

OK, I ordered this siphonless fermenter from Williams Brewing. http://www.williamsbrewing.com/SIPHONLESS_FERMENTOR_P143C66.cfm After I filled it up with wort, I noticed a small leak where the valve meets the bucket. The leak isn't too bad, so I'm not worried about losing too much beer...

Ok, I bought some basic brewing equipment last spring (fermenter, burner, chiller) and have since brewed 5 beers with varying degrees of success. 3 APAs turned out to all have a similar medicinal twang on the back end of it, but a Cream Ale and a British Bitter both turned out delicious...