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From their website: EBC Black IPA takes Gold at the 2012 National Homebrew Competition! Head brewer Dennis Decker has been entering Elsinore beers in Homebrew Competitions to get feedback from BJCP certified beer judges. Our beer has colleted dozens of 1st place medals and placed in the...

Ok, anyday now........

The other potential problem is the secondary isn't the size I thought it was. I thought it was 6.5 gallons but after transferring the 6 gallon batch in (lost a little but not much) there's still quite a bit of room. So now I'm thinking it's 7.5, but I'm not sure. Yeah, dumb move.

I've brewed lots of beer, this is my first wine. I'm making an Island Mist kit for my first try. I made the wine on 8/2 and misread the directions (lost track of time) and didn't transfer it to secondary until tonight. The gravity is .992. The instructions say to leave it in secondary until its...

Well, I've got to ask... why do you fly with star san? Like are you a travelling brewer? Going city to city, converting the masses to homebrew? Or do you live somewhere so remote you can't get it? Just curious :confused:

Stovetop brewing is fine, lots of brewers (me included) do it. if it's an electric range then I'd recommend sticking to all extract or partial mashing. And that's because of the volume of liquid you have to get to a boil if you were to do all-grain. As for calibrating the temperature, a decent...

There's lots of opinions on this, and many different ways to brew. I'm using a syphon hose (because I can't lift the 5+ gallons of wort) and running the wort through a strainer that sits right on my plastic fermenter. It works pretty well for me. I attached a pic of what I use. I used to put...

As in before you drink it? I'd say 3 weeks, that's my rule of thumb, but you could always try it sooner, if it tastes carbonated enough for you, drink it.

You'd just need to divide hops, etc evenly between the 2 pots. As for the grains, if you shake the bag good I'd think it would be mixed enough. Unless you see a real clear diviison of grains.. I know when I get my grains, it's well mixed in the bag so I wouldn't think it would matter.

A member of my local brew club (lehigh valley homebrewers) is attempting to startup a nano brewery in Allentown PA. Anyone interested in just checking it out: http://www.hijinxbrewing.com/home.html Curt also has a jumpstart campaign going (where you can donate, in exchange for some stuff)...

It gets progressively better, I made one that was ok at a month, but after 6 months was much better. I had one tucked away that I tried after about a year and loved it.

I don't have any experience kegging (yet). I try and have 3 weeks in bottle for a decent carbonation.

Just to make sure I didn't miss anything - there's 2 labels where I can upload my own image, correct? This is awesome!

Thanks; that's what I was leaning towards. I was going to do a lager also, but the temp difference and time needed messed with my plan so I scrapped it. I'm brewing for our semi-annual beer tasting party in September, so I've got a schedule to keep :tank: