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Yea I kind of enjoy brewing during these hours. 10pm to 4am. No calls, the wife and animals are all asleep, no one to bother me. Just me and brew. Tonight I'm working on the AHS Sam Adams Summer Ale clone. The grains have about 6 more mins left and my strike water is just about ready. I'll...

This is my first time doing partial mash. Last night was my first time making a starter. BIG weekend for me :) lol Right now I'm in the process of making the AHS Dunkelweizen that was part of the $20 sale at AHS. I've just added my hops and waiting on 60 minutes to arrive. So now is a good...

So I have a buddy that started me in this hobby but really hasn't had a chance to review and learn as much as I have. We went to pickup some 6 gallon carboys but ended up with 2 6 gallon true brew ported buckets. The guy at the LHBS said " You guys don't like pails to ferment?" I said no I...

Hey Gang, So I decided to make a starter for the first time with WL300 for a Dunkle I was going to get started today. Yesterday at about 6pm I pulled my yeast from the refrigerator with the intent to make the starter at about midnight. I noticed at this time that I only had a little over 1/4...

Some friends stopped by and my Hefeweizen happen to be at 2 weeks bottled. I decided now was a good time to crack open a few bottles and see how the people like it. (fyi I had 1.5 gallons in a coors home draft kit that blew its safty valve yesterday and I had 2 drunk dogs on my hands. What...

I'm about to pull up the chart so that I can calculate how much DME to use to batch prime 5 gallons of Hefeweizen. My LHBS said I should just use 1 1/4 cups. I have read a bunch of threads on this issue and it looks like 3.5 is the normal carbonation. My issue is I'm going to be using various...

Well it seems this place is full of Jersey people. I'd like to let everyone else know that regardless of what you see on tv relating to NEW JERSEY and THE JERSEY SHORE, that is not who we are. Those actors are not even from NJ. We don't behave like that. ahmmm. I've read many a post before...