Recent content by ChunksJR

All good brother...they are really good people, and patient with noobs like me. Wednesday is 10% for military. Good things. Go to the website and add your name to the email list. Welcome to town. ~dan

From the Newsletter: Big Brew Day This Saturday Looking for something fun, exciting, educational and tasty to do this Saturday? If so, come out to Homebrew USA, Norfolk JANAF location, between 8am and 3pm on Saturday, May 7th, to celebrate National Big Brew Day with us. The first Saturday...

Actually really great...was very surprised when the FG ended up around 1.030, making it a smooth 3.9-4% ABV, but worked out very well. Taste was good at 1.5 weeks, has gotten really good at 4 weeks. It's official, I'm hooked. :)

It is very easy, but recommend getting something like this just to make it a little easier...

Yeah, read up on some of these and after bending the shelves out of way successfully, I had to move them just a little more and decided that I could manually break the welds between the coolant tubes and the shelf. It worked on 98% of the welds. About 2% broke the weld AND took a little...

Hopefully not in your beer. :drunk: Good thread! Thanks!

I concur with the break-even posts...just going to break even sometime in 2032, about the same time I spend the rest of my life-savings on my brew-pub. :)

So I was looking for some of the "kits" available online with generic instruction for us Noobs and came across some of these quips on an unnamed brewsite's directions (quote in italics, question in red): Fill your brewpot with 2.5 gallons of water. Place the specialty grains inside a muslin...

Any batches that I don't like the color of, I just give as gifts... :D

Just did the same thing as the OP with same FG on a similar looking stout (here) No bottle bombs yet...we'll see though. I was afraid of mixing up the primary fermenter again, due to potential of off-flavors, but will try that next time.

Just mixed it up last night---our first brew, this one is labeled "easy" from the BB kit. LME: 6.60 lb Dark Liquid Extract Grains: 0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L 0.25 lb Chocolate Malt 0.25 lb Roasted Barley Hops: 0.50 oz Warrior (Bittering, added 60 min before cooling) 0.50...

Hey all, Just got the starter kit from Xmas...Looking forward to brewing a bit when I get back from fun with the fam. Navy Helo pilot, working the flight deck of the USS Harry S Truman. Cheers! ~chunksjr:mug: