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I have been on this forum for a while and been brewing beer for 3 years now and was wondering if you guys strain your wort before you put it in your fermenter or not. I don't. I have once with a screen in my funnel, but it clogged up 3 times for one batch so i stopped doing that. I don't really...

I was going to brew a recipe I found online. In the recipe it calls for 1/2 lb. medium crystal malt and 1/2 lb. light crystal malt. I am putting it in to beer smith 2 and what should I use for these 2 ingredients? I was thinking Caramel/crystal malt-40 for the medium and Caramel/crystal malt-10...

•1 lb. two-row pale malt •1/2 lb. medium crystal malt •1/2 lb. light crystal malt •5 lbs. Munton's unhopped light dried malt extract (DME) •4 AAU Cascade hops (1 oz. of 4% alpha acid) •4 AAU Saaz hops (1 oz. of 4% alpha acid) •1 tsp. Irish moss (last 15 minutes of the boil) •German ale...

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I finally have someone to brew with. One of my friends who wants to brew finally is ready. We are going to brew a kit from midwest. He doesn't have a lot of money and was not sure if he wanted to buy a bunch of stuff if he doesn't like it. So I finally convinced him to do it. I am giving him a...

So I am doing my first full boil and was wondering should I steep my grains in a different pot first? 2 gallons of water isnt very much water to steep in a 8 gallon pot. Thanks for the help.

I have searched the forum and really haven't got a definitive answer on how much water i should steep my grains in. I am not mashing. I am steeping specialty grains. thanks for the help.

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/2011-boo-brew I need an idea of what to be. Any Ideas?

my last three batches of light ale, belgian wit, and a honey wheat all have a similar taste in them. They all taste different but there is one little bit of after taste that always tastes the same. I bought all of them at midwest supplies extract kits and always buy the activator packs because...

I have an open carboy and bucket and was wondering if i could make a hard arnold palmer. I was going to take these to recipes and combine them then ferment them as one batch. Is this possible? Or is it a bad idea, and should i just make them separately? Sorry if this is a dumb question. i was...

I bought wyeast 4632 activator its a dry mead yesterday. I made my batch of mead and waited 5 hours and the pack didn't swell. So I had some other yeast I just rehydrated it and put it in. I was just going to return the wyeast the next day. Well when I got home from the bar last night the...