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So I drove to the next county and got some dme and will brew Friday.

I delayed. First AG beer in a few years and I want it to turn out really well. Funny story about this one. I brewed it about 4 years ago for my wife. It's her favorite style. And it was the best batch I'd ever made. But between brewing and the beer finishing, we found out she was pregnant. She...

Turns out I don't have dme anyway and common wisdom says not to use corn sugar. Guess it's best to postpone.

Nearest brew shop is 90 mins from here. Will pitching a 1.5L starter effect the beer?

I want to brew tomorrow but didn't plan ahead. All grain chocolate oatmeal porter with an OG of 1.061. WLP013. Can I make a starter by tomorrow evening or should I wait to brew on Friday? Also, I don't think I have and dme hanging around. Can I use priming sugar? Thanks for your help.

Former AG brewer First time brewing since my son was born. He's turning three soon. Made an old extract kit, with fresh yeast, last Monday. OG was 1.066, target was 1.057 but my boil off was higher than I remember and I ended up with 4.5 gallons into the fermenter. A week later and my beer is at...

Thanks. I had a stainless mixing bowl. Did all the scooping and splashing aerate it too much? Other than a small scorched spot on the bottom of the pot the brew went well.

So I'm brewing for this first time in about three years. Just made my first hop addition. I've been sanitizing things while the wort boils and I just found that my auto siphon is full of mold from being in the basement unused. I'm tossing it of course, but how should I transfer 5 gallons into my...

Did anyone else save one of each for this Christmas? I forgot all about them until my pipeline started getting low and I started digging deeper and deeper. These are going into the fridge right now! Merry Christmas!

thanks!

There doesn't seem to be much info out there on brewing with sorghum. Anyone have experience with it? The place I work grew a bunch of sorghum, which we are pressing into syrup. We're clipping the heads off for chicken feed. One of my coworkers eats a gluten free diet, so I was going to snag...

this was really fun last year! how great is it to get packages of homebrew delivered to your doorstep? i still have one of each aging for this christmas. while i can't participate this year, i hope you all have a blast! last year, the juniper rye bock was my favorite. enjoy fellas!

This is a a question I have been asking myself. I was just in my hbs the other day. I am lucky that mine has a good selection of ingredients. The cost of my items the other day was the same as what they would have been from northern brewer, I checked when I got home. The dilemma is the help...

I firmly believe that you shouldn't trust anyone under 150lbs.

All went well! It is 6.5 hours since the start of the brew. I've mashed, sparged, boiled, cooled, pitched, and went out for Mexican food. I undershot my mash temp and had to add 2 quarts of boiling water, which wasn't a big deal. But my increased boil volume worked out ok because I had just...

It's about 30 degrees out, but I scored two 15gal aluminum stock pots for $50 this morning so I'm brewing my first all grain batch. Everything is going according to plan thanks to another new toy - beersmith. Just started the boil on a chocolate oatmeal porter...

Sipping on a gruit right now. Love it! Been sampling one every day. My wife was crazy about the fruitcake old ale last night, really digging the juniper rye bock too. Haven't had one that wasn't terrific. Draygon, has the HGIPA shown up yet? I sent you a pm about it...

got mine, piratwolf

Thanks for the review. Glad you enjoyed it. Germ temp was mid 60's to low 70's in a dark corner of the back room. Was just trying to talk the wife into a fermentation fridge with the argument that she could also age her cheese. Maybe when we move into a bigger place. I would appreciate some...

The delivery guy snuck up to the house and left a package on the porch sometime today. Found it when I took the dog out. Cranberry lambicky ale arrived intact!