Recent content by canuckmug

great info here thanks all

So I have just started drinking my second batch. First bottle seemed like had a bit too much carbonation for my tastes. So a few days later I opened a second bottle and poured into a glass. The glass immediately filled with foam and over flowed. I think i figured out my problem. Does this sound...

OK. Been reading here that a benefit to a primary is to get your beer of the trub so that it won't affect the taste. I have a brew kit going. had it in my primary, which is a non-airtight kind. It was in for just two days and the sg went from 1.054 to 1.014. Since activity was slowing way down...

sorry.. i usually try to do a good search before i post, but I thought, "how many posts could there be about the smell of the primary?" and just went for it.

So glad to hear it! Thanks!

I just racked my first batch of beer out of my new (1st) primary. Its a 10 gallon plastic one. I rinsed it out. Washed in bleach water solution and rinsed again. It still smells a bit like there was beer in it. Is the plastic now forever tainted? How to you clean your plastic fermentors?

Yes Brewhouse brand was the type i was considering. They are $35 for the kit. I have found another brand of boxed kits for $50. The canned ones are about $13 not including the price of corn sugar they call for. I like the sound of not using the corn sugar so i think I will go with the boxed kind.

I'm going to be starting my second batch of beer as I only have one left from my first. I'm going to use a kit because I'm still a noob, and grains are harder and more expensive to get here than elsewhere. I can by a canned kit, you know the concentrate in the tall heavy cans. But I can also...

I just found this and had to share. Sorry if this is old news. It was new for me, and it blew my mind.

After a successful (first) beer making attempt I was on youtube and watched a few cider making videos. In those videos, the people took preservative free apple cider or juice, added sugar to the desired sg, pitched standard baker's yeast then let it bubble away under a lock. I thought "hey...

Yeah i do web design too and use gimp and inkscape for that as well. If you are new to graphic design and design software, just realise that it will take some time to get used to. There are also lots a sites out there that have free vectors (high end clipart really) that you can use instead of...

My first batch of beer is carbonating away at the moment, so i was reading about making sodas. I read in a few places that once pressure built up in the soda bottles you needed to refrigerate them or else the yeast would make too much CO2. Do I need to refrigerate all 60 bottles of beer after a...

seems to be several ministers here... we should get together and write some beer doctrine. I'll research Martin Luther who said "it is better to think of the church in the brew-house, than of the brew-house while in the church." That's an awesome idea btw jetsmooth. Got me thinking

Well before I put my first batch in a fermenter I was playing around with label designs. Now apparently there is someone in this forum with the same idea for a name. I know this because when i registered at this forum it said "brewpastor" was already taken. I'm not that person, and he/she can...

I like it. Seems brewing is more of an art form pursued with passion. Therefore there really are no rules other than the basic ones like cleanliness. I like brewing even more and i haven't tasted anything yet. But because i am so new to it, just the basics have me stressed out. But i hope to...