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I was just picking styles until one accepted it.

Those were the 2 I really wanted to go! I just haven't ran into another use for them since I brewed my last stout last winter.

I'm just trying to get rid of a bunch of grain I have sitting around. How does this recipe look? It uses all the extra half pounds and whatnot I have sitting around. http://hopville.com/recipe/930899/oatmeal-stout-recipes/kitchen-sink-stout If I need to remove or add anything that would...

I'll look into that. Canning: another sub hobby to add to my homebrewing along with gardening and construction.

Not much I guess once you put it that way. Though wouldn't it still be wise to boil it before pitching into it?

I have some extra space in the freezer. If it came to having to can it I would probably just say screw it and go back to DME.

I brewed a high gravity beer this weekend. After pulling off all we could use we were still pulling wort off at 1.050+. I filled 2 milk jugs and 2 2 liter soda bottles and froze them. I could have gotten more but my propane burner was boiling the everloving **** out of my barley wine so I had to...

I just had it in mostly because I have some leftover from a previous brew. It isn't crushed yet. I probably should have just edited it out before posting.

Damn only problem with that is I will be moved before I can brew again. The new place doesn't have a fridge so I am going to be giving up my fermentation fridge for the kitchen. I don't think I want to do a lager yeast at "basement temperature". My original plan was to knock this out before I...

I'm wanting it pretty strong. That said; I use a keggle so with a little fermcap and some diligence during the boil I could probably increase my batch size some.

Oh wow I completly missed the boil volume. I was getting frustrated because even with a ridiculous amount of hops I couldn't get my IBUs up

I rarely have a chance to get by the homebrew store. Their hours conflict with my work hours. Last Thursday I was signing papers on a house so took the day off. I swung by the LHBS with no brew plan. I made this recipe up on the spot in my head...

That was just this batch. My previous batches all stayed at fermentation temp around 64F up to bottle time. After bottling they were at basement temp (68-70). This was the last batch in my fermentation fridge and I needed the freezer portion to store some stuff. Figured I'd just leave the beer...

The sugar should have been mixed pretty well. I boiled the 4oz of table sugar for about 5 minutes with approximately a cup and a half of water (eyeballed). I then dumped that right into the bottling bucket and siphoned the beer on top of it. Once that was complete I gave it a few good stirs with...

Sorry I should have specified. I was using normal table sugar measured on a digital scale. That is the calculator I used. I think we bottled when the beer was 36 degrees or so. I cold crashed it down before bottling.

I bottled a cream ale this past Saturday. I had been using an online calculator to figure how much priming sugar to add. My past two batches have come out a bit flat so I decided to add a bit more sugar than the calculator suggested. It suggested 2.8oz of cane sugar for 5 gallons. We ended up...

Friday a tornado ripped through my town and missed me by about a half mile. It did obliterate the substation my apartment was connected to. I ran out and got a 20lb bag of ice and tossed it in with my beer. I have 10 gallons of Kolsch and 5 of cream ale in my fridge. 5 gallons of Kolsch is...

Buy 6 so you can account for what you lose in the boil and left behind with the trub. When I first started I did the same thing and only ended up with around 3.9 Gallons of wort in the fermentor. Then I bought more water to account for that. Now I do all grain so I buy the water in 5 gallon...

I had a piece of scrap copper tubing from when I built my current mash tun. I took a hacksaw to that and quickly decided a dremel was the way to go.

Yeah I doubt I would want to mess with it. It was more of a thought that when I bring home YET ANOTHER item for my brewing I could play it off with the wife. "But honey we could always still use it as a cooler if we HAD to!" Or if I run into another cheap keg and convert it to match my...