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i tasted my cider this morning after a hydrometer reeding and it has a vinegar smell and a slight vinegar taste.. is this normal will it go away with age? ill try to give all the info i can. i started my cider on 11/8/07 i was in the primary for two weeks and now secondary for one week my...

i want to start out by saying i havnt brewed in a few months do to the fact i was just buying my beer (what a nasty habit) and this is my first cider so i used a really basic and easy recipe: 4 gl. cider (i will add the 5th gl. after my krausen falls) 3 lb corn sugar pitched 2 campden taplets...

ok after reading the other thread on hard lemonade im making my own batch im only doing a small 1 gal batch to see if i like it but im a little confused about some stuff since im only doing a 1 gal batch so heres my questions my recipe: 2 cans lemonade (minute made) 1\5 lb extra light malt...

ok ill try to keep this as short as posible if you need more info let me know. I started a nut brown ale on 4\26\07 and racked to my carboy on the 2nd of may, it looks like the color i want and my last hydrometer reading was 1.010 (SG of 1.051) i was thinking i should wait maybe 3 more days and...

ok this is an odd question but here it go's I go out to shows alot and like to bring home brew with me but i all ways bike every where and the yeast sediment gets all mixed in when i put the beer in my back pack, so the way that might fix this is to pour my beer into another bottle before i...

so i went to my LHBS today and got the makings for a nut brown ale :ban: all extact and steeping grains im looking to see what my target (SG FG) will be, is there a way to find out before i brew it? heres my "grain bill" 2.7 lb pale extact 3.1 lb amber extact 1 lb gold dry malt extact 1lb...

so in two of my brewing books that i picked up from the library it says to mix a packet of gelatin in some watter and add it before bottling( as i understand it is to "latch" on to all the tiny little particles still floating around and drag then to the bottom) has any one tried this. does it...

ok, i know i posted about this some time ago but im asking it again. i have a 5 gal batch of california golden ale in the secondary it has been there for 8 days and i want to take a hydrometer reading (mmmmMMMMMMmm and tast it) to see where im at my last one i took was when i racked and it was...

ok, so i racked to my secondary on the 10th every thing went perfect there hasnt really been any activity in the air lock to purge to air out but im not really worryed about that im more concerned with when i start to take hydrometer reading that the air will not be purged once i put the air...

oi im 3 days in to first fermentation stage and my krausen has fallen and there is some green stuff (im assuming its the hops) on the side of my bucket im wondering if i should wipe it off to prevent furry friends *mold* heres a picture of it heres the link is case that didnt work...

Im on my second batch and i need bottles so i have been hiting up friends for them (the idea of paying for empty beer bottles scares me) and last night i ran across some Corona bottles im not to concerned with them being clear because i condition in the dark but the rims are much different here...

so i started my first homebrew on 3\16\07 (american light ale) and sicne it was my first of course i rushed it and went into the seconday ASAP and bottled on the 3\24\07(now i know alot more about brewing and know to let it sit a bit longer) and now i want to try it to see how it tastes i know...

check out my first beer label im a bit critical of my art so give me some feed back (even though they are all printed and put on the bottles) in case that didnt work here the link http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o151/bigtool4u91/beerbottlelabel.jpg p.s since this was my first...

OI from WI im rather new to home brewing in fact i just bottled my first batch and i cant wait to taste the finished product, im sure you will get an ear full of questions latter on. cheers fleas. :drunk: :drunk: