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also, when i brewed it, i added water and puree to my fermenter before adding the wort, i underestimated the size of my fermentor, my wort, etc. so i had left over wort. Will this just result in a "lighter less malty beer" or too fruity of a beer?" I also took the extra wort, made a quick...

pectic enzyme reduces the cloudyness?

ok, so i made an apricot beer. I added purreed apricots to my primary fermentor, does the yeast act on the sugars from the purree (and the liquid the apricots were in) and convert it to alcohol?

yea, i just bottled my first beer last wednesday. I snuck a taste, and I enjoyed it. I noticed the "green" taste...i'm guessing thats from hops?

I love this beer! im drinking it right now for the first time. I always avoided it after having sam adams double bock, my first double bock which was horrible! Ne who, anyone got a recipe?

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Amazing Beer

ok, thank you for the heads up

Okay so I have alot of empty wine bottles and their corks laying around (im not a slob lol, i do alot of oil painting so I need things for still lifes) After cleaning and sanitizing, can i prime and condition beer in a wine bottle and just pop a cork in there?

First off, I just gotta say thank you so much for responding so quickly! This forum is awesome. Too many times you post somewhere about something and you never get a response. Ne who, so I have half an open packet and i plan on brewing again in the next day or 2 (I got 2 fermenters because...

I just cooked up my first wort yesturday, i was REALLLLY suprised how much the foam rises up. It's funny how after reading so many warnings about this I was still caught off guard. I didnt boil over, but it came close.

Ok, so yesturday i cooked up a Belgian ale. I had a recipe for 5 gallons but i did the math and made a batch for 2 gallons. Ne who, i poured in about half a packet of yeast (it was more then half a packet, i was definately generous). so yea, It started bubbling pretty quickly about once a...

Ok, so I'm new to the whole brewing thing. and ive been trying to find a recipe for the ommegang abbey ale, and I keep finding the same one, and it keeps saying 28 degrees. does that mean conditioning at 28 degrees farenheit? Isnt that really cold? like, put it in the freezer cold?

nah not yet, I actually found a local wine place that has some brewing supplies, im gonna head over there and see what they have. Though i didnt bother with tubing since the mr beer has the spigot and can just bottle straight from that....unless im mistaken?

Hey all. I have a quick question, something that I havent seen addressed anywhere about mr brew, in videos, posts or reviews. Ok, so the airlock i see in other brewing kits, to let the carbon seep out..(is it carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide?) ne who, the mr beer doesnt seem to have an...