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Holy buttered popcorn batman!! I have brewed 3 all-grain recipes in the last 3 months, and ALL of them have this "off flavor" of buttered popcorn. Now, the lager I tried to make, I froze by accident becuase I did not program my "programmable thermostat" correctly. I thawed it out, pitched...

WHOA there buddy. Stop with the scrub-a-dub-dubbing, that's bad for the bucket. Scratches, scrapes, cuts etc will allow for contaminates to settle in there and start breeding some nasty, nasty things. The hops aroma is not a bad thing at all, so no worries there. Brew on my friend:mug:

Well....there you go! I never knew people brewed in batches smaller than 5 gallons. I was introduced to this craft doing 5 gallons at a time. I love having 2 cases of beer when I am finished.

you do realize that the definition of insanity is repeatedly doing the same actions and expecting different results. Sometimes, the best way to solve an issue is to clear the desk and start over. Perhaps it's time to get new buckets, hoses etc. I know its not cheap and sucks, but honestly if I...

LMAO this has got to be the funniest thread I have read here!!! OMG my side hurts!! My wife gives me "beano" when I toss back a few of my home brews. There are some nights where I could blow the sheets off the bed, and other nights when the ninja-farts come out (silent and deadly). Its yeast...

There is a very large difference between "cheap" and "inexpensive". Learn it!

Save the placenta and use it for dry-hopping on your 2nd racking. Mmmmmmm good! :)

Today at 2:17am there was a disturbance in the force..now I know what it was. I could hear the sounds of wailing, cursing and taps in the wee hours of the morning. R I P beer, you will be sorely missed.

HA HA HA...dude I have found myself in the same boat. My father introduced me to Pilsner Urquell when I was 21 and I never looked back. I have always enjoyed the darker beers and Pilsner Urquell. My friends always drink that carbonated piss water known as Bud Light, Coors, and Natural Light...

Throwing away beer because it does not look right is paramount to alcohol abuse :) Just chill and let the ber do what it is gonna do. Darken, lighten...whatever. If the beer tastes good, then drink it. Unless you are going to enter your beer into a contest don't sweat the color etc. I have...

demystifying alcohol seems to be the best way to go. Education can lessen the draw and attraction to your beer better than any lock can. I educate my son about alcohol (he is 7) and include him in the whole process of brewing. He's great with helping clean the equipment and when I was bottling...

Is there a shelf life on beer?? Is it longer or shorter if it is bottled or kegged?

Have you tried tinted polyurethane?

sweet, Cary represents!!!! :) Ill post here next time we get together to brew a batch.

I used the amount of priming sugar that came with the kit...I am not too sure about the amount but it has never given me results like this before when I bottled the beer. The portable Co2 charger I am using takes a 16g Co2 canister and attanches to the keg with the same ball lock adaptor for...

Holy Mount Saint Hellens batman!!! So here is the scoop: 1. I fermented mt Dunkelweizen for ~3 weeks. 2. Then I transferred the beer into a 5 gal keg with priming sugar for carbonation 3. It has been about 1 week and I wanted to "test" the beer to see if it was ready to put into the...

When I am priming my beer for carbonation, I want to experiment with using different sugars. Does anyone know where I can get a conversion table for this process for the varied sugars out there? (i.e. Brown sugar, honey etc...) I would imagine that I will need to also prepare these sugar...

Any brewers in the Cary area that get together and brew, drink, gather .....you know the drill? I brew every other Sunday and would be interested in meeting other brewers in the area.

UPDATE: We are on day 7 of batch #3 of the Dunkelweizen. The fermentation process has slowed to a crawl...getting some bubbles in my airlock every 20 min or so. It has been sitting in a water bath, maintained at 68-F. I can smell the banana tones and it smells incredible! I bottled my American...

Thank everyone...I appreciate the insight. I have been brewing kits for a while now and was just thinking that maybe I would start to venture out a little and try to get creative with alcohol %'s and what not. By reading more of these threads, I can clearly see that there is allot I have to...