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I brewed a Mesquite Wheat which has been looking great. I was about to keg it last weekend and noticed some kind of "film" across the top, so I decided to wait a few days to see what happened. Not much has changed since then, but I don't know if I should keg or dump. I haven't don't a taste...

I have a batch of a Spotted Cow clone fermenting at 5 days in and I noticed something I don't think I have seen before floating on top. Has anyone else seen this, is it infected?

I just received my first FastFerment conical today and while "dry fitting" everything I have come across 2 spots that I'm not quite sure of. There is a threaded spot where I thought the thermowell would go, it is indented and threaded, but it doesn't open into the fermenter. The other spot...

My best friend gave me an older deep freeze that he no longer needs, and since he's a fan of my beer, he decided I could use it to build a keezer. The deep freeze that was donated is between an 1982-85 Citation and it just over 20 cf. I am still in the planning phase, but I think it will end...

I'm glad I already completed my Beer Club, but I still received this email from their corporate contact. I hate it for everyone else that has already put time and effort into completing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Kentucky...

I'm in the process of deciding on a brew system setup, and I'm trying to decide if I want to up my output. Currently I do 5/6.5 gallon batches, but I wonder about doing 10 gallon batches. My biggest concern is if I only buy 10 gallon pots, I will regret it later down the road if I decide to...

Hey guys A friend of mine and I tried out Edwort's recipe for the first time and it doesn't seem like it has carbed properly. It has been bottled for over a month now and it has almost no carbonation at all. When you pop the top you get just a small sound of carbing and then when you pour...

A co-worker of mine sent me this article this morning. It's a very interesting article, that I think hits a lot of excellent points. I know I am guilty of almost everything he mentions. I will be taking a lot more care in my life now after reading and pondering the ideas...

I made my first batch the other day and the recipe called for the SG to be 1.090 or higher. Well mine was, 1.123. Which Im not worried about that being high. Im just trying to figure out what I should look for for the FG. It calls for 1.040 or less. What should I look for if mine was 1.123...

So I've been making beer for about a year now and I really want to try my hand in cheese. I found a pretty simple mozzarella recipe online and the only 2 items I am a little lost as to where I am going to find Citric Acid and Retten. I know I can find them online, but I am impatient and...

I ordered the Double Chocolate Stout from AHS a couple weeks ago and it came in early last week. I didnt have any time last week or weekend to make it so I was going to Sunday when I got home from church and before we ate dinner with my father in law for fathers day. I had everything cleaned...

Has anyone used the extract kit from AHS? I ordered it Friday and it is supposed to be in tomorrow and I wanted to see before I start I wanted to see if anyone had made it first off and if you altered it in anyway?

So my brother is visiting our mum in New Zealand for the next 2 weeks, which I am very jealous of him for. But he did offer to bring back anything he could find beer related for me. So what I am looking for is anything that I could use to make beer that is pretty much only found in NZ...

Start out having a terrible day today, been working 11 straight days and extremely tired. Havent had time to brew in weeks and its starting to get to me. Then one small thing happened that turned it all around. Got a call from my local liquor store saying they have the 3 kegs I asked for...

Last night I had the chance to try Sierra Nevada's Hefeweizen, and of course I loved it! Im still pretty new in the world of brewing so I am still on extract kits. I am looking for one that is similar to SN's, which one would be recommended and would I need to add anything to get it similar?

I havent grown my own yet, but I am very interested in it. I have been doing a lot of reading on Pride of Ringwood and would love to use it as my first. Does anyone know where in the world I can locate it. I have found a few places online but they are all sold out for 2011. That brings me...

I know I am about to open a huge can of worms by asking this but its a semi emergency. I am about to bottle my Coopers Real Ale and realized I didn't order priming sugar with it. I don't have any form of glucose/dextrose. I have seen you can use table sugar/sucrose as a substitute. If so...

I got off work yesterday and actually had a free night off. I mow on the side, I swung by one of our many local liquor stores to pick up some beer and took a quick look at their home brew stuff. Ive never really tried a Coopers Beer in a Can and was intrigued. So I picked one up and gave...

Over the weekend I got to try a bottle of my first batch. Its a Dunkelweizen, when I popped the top there was a nice sound of carbonation. When I poured into the glass, as you can tell from the bottle there isnt much of a head. Any chance this is because its only been in the bottle 1 week...

Hey guys and gals! I am a fairly new user. I have been doing a lot of reading as I readied myself to brew my first, but I believe this is my first post. Found the site thanks for my dad who has been brewing for a few years. But when he moved to Maryland and took his home brewing with him...