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I do plumbing. And a piece of 3/8 pex fit perfectly into the bung cap that has the permade hole https://instagram.com/p/Bsd91ZBgEhM/ So far so good I just bottled it up. Smells and taste good. All but I put double the Eldorado hops and it taste like I added coriander . Hoping that will mellow...

Thanks for the responses. It helps ease my mind . Tuesday night will make a week. It’s a bubble every 5 seconds on an airlock now and smells pretty good. I know what to do next time I do a wheat beer high in sugars. Maybe I’ll check back and post the final result for someone else if they try...

I had a blow over in a carboy and my wife removed the airlock and put tin foil over it. Like I told her over the phone. She rinsed off the bung and manages to get it in part way. But it left a lot a lot of Krausen around the mouth of the carboy. It was good to come home and see I lost...

A lot of beautiful remote areas I’m glad I didn’t break down in there in Texas. But to be stranded and find a brewery. That only happens in dreams. And maybe a ccomercial or a country song or two. Lol.

Without further reading Does a beer with this name ring a bell ? “Mastive” I may be misspelling, idk. It’s like a stout. Could be a North Carolina beer idk. So I Go out of town and Find this sweet hole in the wall establishment. Really nice waitress named out their beers. Starting with...

Heck the batch prime. It wasn’t really over carbed. But on the high end. Beer was nice and tasty. Thanks for your input. beer was good

Well, of course I came home and put them all in the fridge. After getting them cold cracking a couple open. Start getting tied up in something and a minute or 2 later an inch of foam came up creeping out. I suppose for now on after 2 weeks I need to get in the fridge. It was a big beer...

Have you Ever made a great batch of ale with perfect carb , yet have a bottle to bust open at the base of the bottle ? The Beer bottles were saved from a 12 pack of Sierra Hop Hunters . They Seem like good quality bottles to re use. And I don’t re use bottles often. Maybe Twice after emptying...

It's time to bottle them.But it's been 9 days..it just carbs better and taste better if I don't bottle before 9 and after 10 days doing it this way with the lbks and stuff...I add sugar to the bottles I don't do a primary and secondary and have all that 5 gallon stuff yet...It's Mr beer gear...

Hi,this is the first time I had something go wrong like this..I probably should upgrade my gear now.. I still use Mr beer kegs ,4 of them. I've been pretty busy to start with anything else or do anything. As a matter of fact I had enough ingredients to use in 2 of them lbk kegs and I wanted to...

Next time I'll know better is right..Just got one cold..it's Awesome I'll make this mistake again very soon...Flavor and abv ,,A friggin delicious and quick beer buzz

Is there something that taste like the old mr beer creamy brown extract now that they don't make it anymore.. I really liked it added to just about anything not for the color but the flavor.. Would a briess porter lme be similar in flavor? Or is there some kind of secret recipie behind this...

I've always heard not to add all the extract until you boil the hop additions. Guess that keeps you from caramelizing the malt ..Do you think you like his brew better because you prefer the more caramelized malt.. Or do you think it's because the hop oils took better this way?

ooops didn't realize how old this post was..was wondering how the thing turned out..

Joey I wondered the same thing myself. I haven't been brewing as long as you have. But I wish my town had some kind of brew club.. If yours does ,That's what I would do. There are some clubs in my state and I had the pleasure of hanging out with a brew club ,But it's about 75-100 miles from...