Recent content by brew_heel66

Can't win if you don't enter. Let's give this a whirl.

Nice. I have this one cold crashing at the moment and will be bottling it tomorrow. I did the primary for two weeks in the Mr. Beer then got a 3 gallon glass carboy and have used that as a secondary for the last 2-3 weeks (after pulling off two bomber bottles as testers). It has a gorgeous red...

Fwiw, having the same discussion with the lhbs expert he had a pretty fun tip. He said with most of his beers he uses vodka in his s-airlocks. If any does get sucked in it won't have any negative side effects or add water/sanitizer to your beer (who really wants to drink that) and when you are...

So, to continue the newbie vibe, when doing an extract kit/recipe if you mix all of the ingredients (all water, DME, LME, etc.) you CAN go ahead and boil it all before chilling and adding the yeast? I know the first 2 beer recipes I have made specifically said NOT to boil but they also only had...

Wow, y'all are certainly quick around here :D Thanks, it certainly got the gears turning in the head of my LHBS guy and I've read a few posts where guys said TO repitch yeast so I just wasn't sure. I really just wanted to get those big ugly particles out of my otherwise gorgeous beer...

Hey all, first time poster (as will likely be painfully obvious) but I've been lurking and reading for a couple of months now. Been wanting to home-brew for years and my gf was fantastic and got me a Mr. Beer for xmas this year to finally push me over the edge (don't worry the brown plastic keg...