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Ok so I have a milk stout that I am trying today. I bottled it exactly two weeks ago. I can taste the carbonation. Is this because this bottle might have gotten more of the priming sugar mixture or because it is still young and needs to condition longer. I have heard stouts take a little bit...

OK so last night I decided to brew a belgian ale. It had almost 6 lbs of grains in it. So my friends were over helping and one of the steeping socks got burn on the bottom of the brew pot and about 3 lbs of grains ended up in the bottom of my pot. So quickly I grabbed a strainer and poured the...

So I have been looking around on here a lot. It seems when people start talking recipes, it is located in one area. I think this is because people in the same region are enjoying the same type of quality beer and looking to reporduce it. What do you think? Do you think what region you are from...

So I went to put my airlock on my pirmary today (plastic bucket), and the gasket from the opening fell in and I can't find it. So I just put the lid on and going to hope for the best right now.

Hey everyone, So I have been on the board a lot and posting in the beginners section. I figured I would say hi. I am getting ready to start my fourth brew. I am still learning and not ready to graduate from Extract brewing but maybe one day I will. hahaha. Thanks for all the help so far and...

When I am home in Indiana visiting, I love to go to 3 Floyd's Brewpub. It is a great little place, excellent beer and awesome bbq pulled pork. When I am sitting here in VA I have a couple places I like to go for beer. Mostly the Birch and Cogan's Pizza. Both places have a huge selection of craft...

Ok so my milk stout batch was just bottled last night. The suggested OG was 1.064 mine was 1.058 but that was taken with the wort at 80 F. So with the adjustment for tempature difference I am at 1.060. FG was suppose to be 1.024 and I ended up at 1.022. Last night I bottled it, I tasted at the...

Ok so I followed the directions and added the priming sugar to a boil until it dissolved. Today was my day to try my first batch, my first four bottles I pulled out but they were flat. What went wrong. These four also happened to be the last four bottled. I opened a fifth one that was from the...

Is it a bad thing if you don't match the OG that is listed in the recipe. I just did a milk stout and my reading was 1.054 and the list OG was 1.062. Is this bad, what could it be?

Hey everyone, this is my second brew. I have a question about this milk stout directions. It says, "after steep, remove grain bad and let drip dry. Add dried malt extract and 0.9 gallons of water to the brewpot and bring to a boil." Ok my question is this, to I add the dried malt straight to my...

Hi there, This is my first post. My brew just exploded. Does this mean the whole brew is now bad?