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What happens if you add lactose to a clearer, lighter colored beer? I have always heard of porters and stouts having lactose. what about lighter beers?

Of course I know of spiced beer, but has anyone tried spices that you would used to make mulled wine for beer?. I am not talking about making hot mulled beer but spicing beer with these spices. I have mulling sachets I thought could be steeped during fermentation or the boil. The spices in the...

What are the online recipe generators? I know of beer tools.com. What else is there? What is everyone's favorite?

What about right before bottling? I have a few days left before I have to bottle it. Is there any way to make a nice flavored beer at this stage?

I have a cheater's kit beer almost ready to bottle.(a 23 litre bag-in-box of wort-just add yeast). It's a wheat beer. I am wondering if anyone has any suggestion about flavoring it. Perhaps with berries or citrus. I know this is a pretty vaugue question. I hope I get lots of ideas from anyone...

Well maybe you should start a business like that. These easy kits are very poupular. Barrel 'O Beer you could call it! The beer and wine kit store here is actually going to start making beer on site like they make wine.

I agree with "where's the fun it that?" But this is my second time making beer at home. I planned to jump right into all grain, and I even constructed a makeshift mash tun, but I couldn't find easily accessible malt at a reasonable price. I resorted to these kits. The beer and wine store here...

That's right. Non-concentrated wort. Called Festa Brew. A huge bag in a box. 23 litres of straight wort. I have a their wheat beer in a carboy right now! http://www.magnotta.com/Festabrew/ProductList.aspx?SectionID=1

If brewing from barley malt is called all grain brewing and brewing from a can of syrupy extract is called extract brewing, what is it called when you make beer from one of those concentrated liquid wort kits, or even those non-concentrated 23 litre bags of wort?

Braided stainless steel water line?? Would I have to pull some inner tubing out of it first? Is that hard to do? I am not familiar with that stuff. I still have another length of that PEX pipe. Should I just cut slits in it and abandon my holey ones?

What kind of pipe? PEX. On the lable it says "For use in hot and cold potable water distribution systems." 1/2 inch.

BIAB is brew in a bag??? Thanks for the reply

I made a mash tun from a 37L (that's 9.5Gal) cooler. (25cm H, 45cm L, 33cm W) I used 1/2 inch pipe with holes drilled in it to allow the wort to drain. I made a square pattern with 2 cross pipes. I was lucky and the cooler had a drain that fit the tubing perfectly so I didn't have to drill any...

Do you leave it in the bucket for the ENTIRE time (without racking to a smaller vessel) until you bottle/keg it?