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Apologize in advance if this topic is covered well somewhere, but for the life of me, I cannot find a recipe for a German winter ale. I find several for winterbocks (which I understand to be lagers) and weihnachtsbier (also lagers?). What I am looking for is an ale recipe that is malty, not...

I think I located it. O ring connecting the beer line to the shank. I had taken the line off while this beer was lagering in the keezer, and I forgot to put the O ring back on. Costly and critical mistake on my part. The beer basically slowly oozed out of that connection, down the line, onto...

I am devastated. I have no idea what happened. I legged my first lager last weekend and two days ago I connected the beer line to try it and left it connected. Today, I looked at the bottom of the keezer and there are three inches of foamy beer on the bottom and the keg is empty. The step of the...

My guess is that when he said "unhooked extract" he typed unhopped extract and the autocorrect changed it.

They look like ball locks with a pressure relief valve to me. How much is he selling them for?

Sweet! Thank you!

My keezer recently had some space open,NAND I would like to branch out into lagering. I still do extract plus partial grains and was wondering if you all had some recommendations on a basic recipe that is likely to yield good results as my first lager. I prefer European pilseners to light...

Thanks for all the feedback. I will let it sit for a while. It's not even fully carbed yet, so that's something. The good thing is I have a fermenter free now.

Thanks guys. Yeah, I even went back and looked at the recipe to see if I messed up and it was supposed to be teaspoons. Sure enough, tablespoons. Unless it was a typo. So irritated. Its like someone poured Jagermeister into a Guinness.

Should have known better. I don't like spiced beers in general and I don't like black licorice or anything like it. But I go caught up in the pumpkin ale hype, and my LHBS had a recipe I followed to a tee. It called for two tablespoons of Chinese five spice, which has as its first ingredient...

Hm. That could be the same. Basically, if you sprinkled something on top of the foam, it would stay there because it's so spongy and strong looking.

It's funny. After writing that post, in the past hour, the bubbling has started pretty good. One every second. Smells great so far. No sulfur yet.

Just put mine together yesterday. It started bubbling, but not as vigorous as I am used to with beer. Normal? I would post a picture, but I don't have enough posts yet. I used unfiltered, organic juice. I expect it to stay cloudy and that's ok with me. Any issue with using unfiltered juice...

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Just put together my first batch. Used Santa Cruz Organic apple juice, which is pasteurized but not filtered. Looking forward to seeing this develop.