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In my early days of brewing, I had just finished chilling the wort and poured it into my carboy. I was using a vial of white labs liquid yeast. I unscrewed the lid of vial and turned it upside down over the opening of the carboy, and proceeded to drop the whole vial in to my wort. I sat there...

1420.3 + 5 of American Amber Ale 1425.3

Make sure you write down everything you use, you may find you wish to recreate this brew when it's all done!

Drinking my most recent creation, and My favorite home brew so far, and American IPA!

My hydrometer has the ABV scale on it too, but it isn't as simple as stick the hydrometer in and see what it says. You have to record what the original ABV is before pitching and then again when fermentation is complete. Take the final ABV and subtract it from the original. It just takes the...

This looks great! I'm currently apartment hopping, so I like to look at everyone else's brew spaces and dream about when I can have my own!

As Foosier said, if money is a constraint, aluminum is a great alternative. I've been brewing in an 8 gallon aluminum tamale pot (with lid) I got from target for less than $30. It has made some great beers!

5 gallons of my house Bock 1071.5 --Kevo-- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem

I was brewing a Wheat ale, and everything had gone smoothly. Mash was quite efficient, boil went well, and hit my target OG right on. When it was time to pitch my yeast, I was using a liquid yeast vial, I turned it upside down to our the yeast into my carboy and let the whole vial slip and fall...

I have the "Big Orange" drink cooler with the mesh tubing for filter for my MLT, and I consistently hit my target OG or occasionally hit higher than expected by a couple points. I have figured an efficiency of 68% and factor that into my grain bill calculations and it has worked really well for...

40554 +5 gallons American hefeweizen +5 gallons Oatmeal Stout 40564 gallons

This is Dixie. You have to be careful with beer glasses around her. You leave them unattended, she will entitle herself to a free sample, which is usually as much as she can get until you catch her. She will do the same with wine, margaritas, and other alcoholic beverages, except whiskey she...

26602 5 gallons Bock 5 gallons Irish Red 5 gallons Belgian Wit 5 gallons American Blonde 26,622

Irish Amber Ale

I'm working on converting my mini fridge into a fermentation chamber. After rearranging the freezer shelf, my 6 gallon better bottle with a blow off tube fits in there. Now I just need to fashion a shelf to make the whole bottom level with the hump for the compressor, and get a good temperature...