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I'm brewing alot less these days and have too many fermenters taking up room in my closet. I have: 6 gal BetterBottle 3 gal BetterBottle 5 gal glass Carboy 7.5 gal bucket with lid 4 or 5 4liter glass wine jugs for small batches Also 2 Party Pigs with coolers. Would really prefer to not deal...

Ingredients: ------------ Amount Item Type % or IBU 0.24 lb Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) Adjunct 1.66 % 8.82 lb Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 60.33 % 5.00 lb...

Anybody here make cider from fresh apples? What do you use to crush and press the apples? My parents have an old full sized apple tree that produces an abundance of pretty good apples. In addition the property has dozens of wild crab apple trees. So I can get a pretty good supply of apples...

Discussions in a thread about Great Lakes brewery lead to several local HBT members and Yooperbrew, who is visiting the area to decide to try to meet up during the holidays. The plan is to meet at 7PM Sunday the 28th of December at La Cave du Vin in Cleveland Heights. I just wanted to put...

I had a batch of Pinot Pymet that finished up just off-dry in the carboy. At around 5months after pitching i bottled the batch in beer bottles. Well these are all carbonated at about the normal level of carbonation for beer. I suspect because I didn't stabilize the mead, it decided to ferment...

I am considering getting some reconditioned cornys for aging my meads. I'm finding my mead making is starting to consume secondaries and I need to purchase some more. Cornys cost about the same as carboys but are easier to store (full or empty) and I can use them when I finally do get around to...

Given the hop shortages I decided to experiment with some more traditional ingredients in beer. I decided to do 2 small batches with different herbal ingredients available from the HBS. I started with a 6gal base beer using a Scottish 80/- grain bill. Then I split the batches one on my stove...

olllllo, chriso, and paulthenurse were sent beers from me. In addition to 2 08-08-08 RIS I also sent A Russian Imperial Stout brewed in August and ready to drink now A Brown Porter for something a little lighter but still dark A Great Lakes Blackout stout (RIS) to sample one of the local...

I sent out 5 different beers to each of the recipients: Oatmeal Stout Moonless Night (Export Stout) 08-08-08 RIS Brown Porter CBB IPA I appreciate all the honest reviews. Thanks Craig

I am planning a Rye based IPA using 2# of flaked rye. All of the commercial IPAs I have preferred have been more amber colored with plenty of malt background. I have not like the paler versions as well. I really like the Hop Rod RyePA and I'm trying to get something similar but not necessarily a...

OG 1.055 (80% efficiency, adjust base malt for your system) IBUs 36 6.75# Pale malt 0.5# roasted Barley (350l) 0.75# chocolate (330l) 0.5# crystal 40 0.5# crsytal 120 0.75# victory 1# flaked oats 2oz Willamette hops at 60 S-04 yeast Single infusion mash at 156F for 60 min. I...

Started out planning a Scottish 80/- based on Jamil's recipe using US-05 yeast. After mashing in I opened the fridge to find out I only had S-04, not exactly the clean yeast I was looking for. However the recipe was not far off from several English Ales. I still wanted to brew a malty beer so I...

I brewed up an Oatmeal stout recently that I just bottled last night. I was really disappointed that the grainy astringent flavor from my 1822 porter (see sig) is back. I assumed that the problem with the porter was too much brown and amber malt but this stout has neither and is nearly as bad...

I did my first brew using my new Barley Crusher. Previously I had been buying precrushed grains and had been getting 63-68% efficiency. Today I got about 84% efficiency with the default settings on the crusher. :rockin: The good news is I got slightly more beer at a higher gravity than...

How big does the primary fermenter need to be to do a 6gal kit wine? I noticed the instructions for Winexpert Reserve wines says you must have an 8gal fermenter. Is it necessary to have a fermenter or can you work with a 6.5 gal bucket? I already have several 6.5 gal buckets and I didn't want...

So how mixed up is my IPA going to be? I cleaned out my supplies to make an IPA last night. Hops: 2oz Centenial (60 and 10 min) 2oz EKG(20 and 5min) 2oz Fuggles (15 and 1min) 2oz Cascade for Dry Hopping In addition the grain bill is: 5# 2-row 1# Amber .5# Wheat .5# Extra Special...

Why do all commercial brewery, even brewpubs use Sanke kegs. Why do all home brewers (who keg) use Corny kegs. Can a home brewer use Sanke kegs instead of Corny kegs? It seems there is little difference in how the kegs are used. My understanding is that Corny kegs originally came from the...

Anybody have a good Russian Imperial Stout recipe that maybe something like BORIS. I just had one this weekend from Hoppin Frog Brewery in Akron, OH. From the bottle: B.O.R.I.S. the Crusher (Bodacious Oatmeal Russian Imperial Stout) 9.4 ABV, OG 107, FG 38, IBU 60 This is the blackest beer...

How long of no activity do you go before repitching? I pitched White Labs tube of English Ale (WLP002) on a batch of Mild yesterday (saturday) about noon. There is no activity as of 10pm Sunday (34 hours). How long should I give it. The yeast was fresh, expiration August 07. I pitched at about...

I plan on making a Belgian Wit next week that calls for crushed coriander seed. In my last order I bought some coriander seed from the HBS, however it does not appear to be crushed. How can I crush it to use in the boil? Or can I just adjust the amount and/or boil time and use uncrushed seed...