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Hello everybody! I haven't been around in a while, so please forgive my very basic question. I have my first beer (Munton's bock kit +3lb DME and .25lb sugar) sitting in primary. It's been there for about 10 months. It's been a time consuming year, heheheh. Anyway, I'm pretty sure it's...

I have my first brew still sitting in primary (been there since probably February sometime, I forget when exactly I brewed it and dont feel like looking it up). I just haven't had time to buy caps and bottle it yet. Anyway, this black bock is sitting in the primary fermenter, which happens to...

I picked up a 6-pack of Bell's 25th Anniversary Ale and I'm interesting in harvesting the yeast from a couple of these guys just for fun and experimentation. It says directly on the 6-pack to decant the beer off the yeast, which I've never seen before. It is an American strong ale though at...

Just a quick question. How long is the minimum recommended for refrigerating a bottle conditioned beer for proper carbonation? Just picked up a 6-pack of some craft bottle conditioned pale wheat ales that had a good amount of yeast sediment. No idea how long the bottles had been sitting...

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a clone recipe for this brew, AG or extract. "Pour 422 Pale Wheat Ale into a pint glass, give it a long whiff and you’ll realize that this isn’t your average pale golden wheat. Preserved in its unfiltered state, 422 is a fantastic session...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cog_nate/sets/72157602400060222/with/1560742969/ These guys certainly know how to do it!

Blind Faith IPA: "60 IBUs of Apollo and Cascade Hops!" picked up a 6 pack from the corner party store. the shop owner/cashier asked me if I had tried it yet, and said it was "really good". Poured into a stemless red wine glass. Nice copper/amber color in appearance. Nearly a two finger head...

I just had a revelation to make a lemon hinted English Bitter for the summer. a nice 3-4ish abv beer for session drinking and fishing at a newly acquired cottage in Houghton Lake. not an over-the-top lemon flavor, like Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, but just a nice mellow lemony tingle to the ale...

"Short's Brew Golden Rule Ale: Organic golden ale with thorough earthy hoppiness." Has anyone else tried this? Presently drinking one for the first time and I'm quite enjoying it. It almost reminds me of Sam Adams Noble Pils, except obviously it's an ale, and it has a little more body. Nice...

I was just wondering what can happen to my beer from an extended time of sitting on the yeast in the primary fermenter. My bock extract kit has been in primary going on 2 months now. I haven't had the time to bottle it. can anything bad come from this?

my bockish ale is done! I'm on spring break this week so luckily I will have time to bottle it soon. to be honest though, I'm really liking it as it is without carbonation and at a cellar temperature. if I wanted to keep some of it uncarbonated for my rustic tastes, could I just fill up a...

Short's Brewery "Huma Lupa Licious IPA" Short's Brewery "The Liberator" Double IPA with lemon and orange zest Rochester Mills "Cornerstone IPA" All three are delicious on their own. Liberator and Huma Lupa are pretty similar, with Liberator being slightly more hoppy in nose and bitter in taste...

I went in to my local HBS to check it out and ask a few questions, and was rather surprised!! recently I made a thread here asking about suggestions for my next brew and was told that a cream ale would be more difficult to get right than a scotch ale as the cream ale flavor is delicate and...

I took a gravity sample of my brew a few days ago (muntons bock extract kit with 3lbs DME added, about 3.5 weeks in primary) and throughout the process my beer seemed pretty inactive. flat as a pancake, hardly a bubble to be seen aside from a few tiny yeast bubble rafts on the surface of the...

I was wondering if someone could estimate what my OG was? I forgot to measure it and am wondering what my abv might be. I'm using a Munton's bock beer kit which is supposed to have an OG of 1.040-1.044, and then I added 3 lbs of DME. what would that bring the gravity up to?

So my first batch is finishing in primary, on it's third week now. I'm having a little trouble deciding what to brew next. My first batch was a bock beer from a Munton's extract kit (with a few extra pounds of DME for fun), but I would like to do something a little more involved for my next...

My first batch, "Muntons Connoisseurs Bock Beer Kit". mixed it up on Saturday evening around 7pm and used about .25 lbs of sugar and 3lbs DME, pitched the yeast at about 69/70*. forgot to check the gravity. checked it Sunday morning and it was bubbling away quite readily, about 2 or 3 'glugs'...