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I brew extract batches but obviously use steeping grains. In Illinois, several farmers are havesting their winter wheat crop and I have the opportunity to get a 5 gallon bucket for about $8. Has anyone used winter wheat in their beer for all grain or used as steeping grains? And what have your...

at a personally devised recipe. Any ideas, recommendations, are welcomed. HOME BREW RECIPE: Title: HopTARDed APA Brew Method: Extract Style Name: American IPA Boil Time: 75 min Batch Size: 5 gallons Boil Size: 3 gallons Efficiency: 75% STATS: Original Gravity: 1.075 Final...

This is my first designed recipe without just altering a kit from Midwest or Austin Home Brew. I brewed 12 hours ago. After 7 hours after pitching yeast, the headspace in my 6.5 gallon carboy was filled and blowing out the top of the airlock. I hurried and cut a piece of tubing, and ran it into...

This is my first designed recipe without just altering a kit from Midwest or Austin Home Brew. After 7 hours, the headspace in my 6.5 gallon carboy was filled and blowing out the top of the airlock. I hurried and cut a piece of tubing, and ran it into a one gallon jug half filled with a Starsan...

I wanna do just a one gallon batch of cider and wondered if anyone has ever used Lalvin 71B-1122 Narbonne yeast and how it turned out? I was gonna use organic apple juice, 1 pint of honey, .5 to 1 lb of light brown sugar, back sweeten with xylitol, and bottle n carb with coopers carb tabs. I may...

Has anyone ever had a hard time getting good seals with caps on reused Sierra Nevada bottles? I bottled a honey ale 2 weeks ago and it has been more than warm enough to get the yeast to eat the 5 oz of cornsugar i bottled with. I know the rule of 3 weeks but ive had plenty of carb prior to 3...

My girlfriend doesnt particularly care for the variety of different beer styles that I enjoy. So im considering doing a light ale or a cream ale, but also want it to still be a unique crowd pleaser. I've not seen anything on adding candy flavoring like butterscotch candy extract or toffee candy...

This weekend I will be making midwest's cream stout. In the secondary I'd like to introduce coffee flavor. Ive done some minor research and learned that cold brewed coffee is the way to go. However, im looking for some advice as to what coffee to use and ratio of coffee to water. Any help would...

Yesterday, I ordered the Cream Stout Kit from Midwest Supplies. Its a sweeter stout that I thought would pair well with coffee. I plan to use crushed coffee beans in the secondary. But I was wondering how much to add, and if anyone had any other techniques that has worked well, or has simply...

I just had 6- 5gallon plastic Culligan water bottles given to me. Can I use those as fermenters even though it says "water only" on the bottom of the bottles? Also, has anyone had a bad experience brewing in those type of plastic bottles?

I started an OCTANE IPA from Midwest Supplies. I boiled, cooled, and pitched yeast sunday jan 14th and the OG was 1.064. I have seen no visible signs of fermentation in 4 days. I had anticipated this beer to take longer to ferment, however, 2 days in a row my SG is at 1.012 which is right where...

I've never used carb tablets before. However, I'm currently a week into fermenting an IPA (of sorts) and when it is time to bottle, I want to cut down as much time on carbing in bottles as fast as possible and consume the beer while it is young and hoppy. The instructions on the Coopers Carb...

Im doing my first IPA and I like em hoppy as hail! The kit is an Octane IPA kit from MIDWEST SUPPLIES. Kit includes: 6 lbs. Gold liquid malt extract, 3.3 lbs. Amber LME, 8 oz. Caramel 40L specialty grains, 2 oz. Cascade, 1 oz. Willamette, 1 oz. Goldings pellet hops, oak chips. @ 72.5 IBU's...

Has anyone tried, before bottling, adding vitamin B6, B12, Potasium, or any other herbs, vitamins, or minerals to try a "HEALTH" or "less of a hangover" cider or beer? I know potasium sorbate is a preservative that will eff my cider carbing, but can you just use a disolvable potasium...

I live in Rock Falls, Illinois. About half way between Rockford and the Quad Cities. Anyone know a good homebrew store in Northern Illinois, Iowa, or Southern Wisconsin I can adventure to so I can see/purchase more useful supplies in person? Please and Thank You!:rockin:

I'm doing my first 5 gallon batch of cider. I transfered to my secondary carboy last night. Original reading before going into the primary was 1.060 and reading after putting it into the secondary was 1.008. Fermentation seems to be actually going faster now that when it was in the primary...

Hello Masters of Homebrewtalk.com I'm new to brewing. Last night I started my first home brew consisting of: 5 gallons organic apple juice (no preservation), half a bag of brown sugar, 1 pint of raw honey, lil nutmeg, 1 oz ginger root, 1 oz cinnamon sticks, and I'm using WYEAST activator...