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I will definitely try Surly this weekend. Anyone know about the tasting at Wooley's this Thursday?

Hope someone has a good suggestion. I'm in town for ten days and would love to experience the microbrewery scene. Any help would be appreciated.

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So just an update....first batch has been in the bottle for three weeks and i'm happily cracking into them. The taste isn't as great as I hoped, but definitely drinkable. I can't complain for my first ever batch. Today I am also bottling a Mango-Peach Hef that bastardized from a kit. This one...

In the early posts here, there was talk of links to the Brewhouse site for doing mods to the recipes. I took a look at the original link, but it doesn't work anymore. Anyone know where the new site is? My first Brewhouse was a by-the-book IPA, which I will be sampling tomorrow (10 days after...

So I'm the kind who like to put the cart before the horse....I've done two Brewhouse kits that are still just fermenting in the bottles and I've got the bug. Just wondering if anyone has a good starter extract kit / recipe to play with? I've seen some kits in the states that sound great, but...

With the buckets, do you guys recommend a loose lid and no airlock, or a tight lid with airlock?

Just rinse with soap and water in between starsan?

But what do you do if you want to check the gravity part way through? I also started making wine so i'm looking for tips.

I assume the has been answered somewhere... Once your beer is in your primary / secondary, what do you do for the small items for cleaning? I'm talking about your hydrometer and wien theif for samples, etc. Do you keep a bucket of PBW close by, or do you just use soap and water and star san?

I'm using Brehouse as well. I did the IPA exactly as the instructions said. Just bottled yesterday, so we will see in a few weeks. I'm also doing a Wheat ale that I changed to Wyeast 3068 and added fruit to my primary for the wife. Two questions..... 1. how often should I check my SG? 2...

Thanks everyone for the tips. It sounds like i'm doing a bit of overkill if these were my own bottles. Now that I have 50, filled with my delicious (I hope) beer, I will rinse when they are empty and place back in the box. Question....when you are done with your Grolsch bottles....do you store...

Beerbro, what would you recommend to keep the chemical flavor out?

For the starsan, does anyone just use the sulphiter on top of the tree to spray inside, or do you all dunk and shake?

Since I don't know where all these bottles have been (bought them from a bottle depot), I would rather go with the overkill the first time. The next time will just be a PBW rinse and Starsan I think.