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Just want to say Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans, and a special thank you to all of you Servicemen and women serving now or in the past, for helping to preserve our freedoms.

Anyone have any idea how long one of these will last cellared? We're moving soon and as I was packing up my bar I found this bad boy sitting under it. It was produced on Jan. 2, 2010. I figure it's gotta be like any other can or bottle. It was kept in the dark at an ambiant 64°F year round...

I'm hoping some of you folks will have more experience than myself regarding this matter. I'm building a new home and the hot water tank that is included with the house is a 40 gallon electric with the option to upgrade to gas or tankless. I currently have a 50 gallon gas tank in my house that I...

Happy Dyngus Day from Buffalo, NY the Dyngus Day capital of the world. Were decked out in their red and white, ready to party the day and night away, drinking Polish beer and shots of Krupnik, Polka dancing, and eating good Polish food. :mug::ban::ban: Maybe we'll see you here some year!

Sold my house tonight for more than we were asking. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that happening. Open house yesterday resulted in three offers, we we're able to get an offer above asking price, with a rent back so our new,house can be built. Sorry for the long post, but i feel like...

I was shopping for new dress shoes today when I ran across these I had no clue that these existed. Are they an important piece of brewing equipment? Will they effect my beer like a good pair of bowling shoes will have to your bowling game? Are these that one missing piece of equipment that...

Just wondering who else enjoys sharing a beer with their favorite four legged friend? Unfortunately my golden retriever lacks a sophistocated palet and prefers the SWMBO's Bud light, i'll change him soon though.

Yesterday I made my first starter, but I'm not sure what to expect, or if the yeast died in transport to me. I built a starter using 40oz. water and one cup of extra light DME, boiled out for fifteen minutes, transferred into a sanitized growler, and let cool with a sanitized growler cap on it...

http://www.buffalonews.com/life/taste/article573168.ece This sounds right up my alley, and it's in my backyard to boot.

I went to take a reading of my pumpkin ale in my primary tonignt, and accidentally hit the yeast cake with my theif, throwing up tons of trub. I know you won't get an accurate reading with a bunch of sediment in the cylinder, so I took a coffee filter, rubber banded it across a pint glass and...

Just a quick question for those of you who have used carb tabs in the past. I just bottled my first run of homebrew, and put carb tabs into a sixer just because i'm impatient and want to try it asap. How long should it take to carb up a bottle?

Tonight around 12:30am I found out something very important while pitching yeast. I decided to try out a 5 gallon bucket mixer to aireate(?) my wort. Awesome idea, it gets a ton of little bubbles into the wort, except for one minor issue.... If you have a variable speed drill, make sure it's on...

I did a midwest partial mash pale ale kit a couple of weeks ago, and not realizing it (stupid me) the OG was only 1.031, according to the directions it shoud have been around 1.042 or so. It's already into the secondary, and I saw a ton of action out of the airlock during initial fermentarion...

First time time brewer here, with a couple of questions about dry hopping. I've got a partial mash cascade pale ale in the secondary, the nose is wonderful, but haven't sampled it as of yet. 1. Would you sample before dry hopping. 2. Would you go with more cascade, or use centiennial (i have...