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What is the best method to store home brewed beer long term (several months)? I brew a batch of beer in march I set four a side in a closet that usually hovers between 68-72 degrees. I just cracked one open and it had a sour kinda spoiled milk after taste. The beer tasted great when it was...

I just got a few empty beer boxes from a local bar and lined the bottoms with paper towels. Then I just set them in the boxes up side down, the water will drain out and you'll have dry bottles in no time

Here's the thing, the beans I got were from my mom and they expired a year and a half ago they smell and look fine so I'm gonna use them. I just figure they may have lost some flavor so should I use one or two.

Firstly I searched around and couldn't quite find what I was looking for so sorry for the 1000th vanilla bean thread. I brewed a brewers best Irish stout extract on friday, April 30 and i was thinking of adding some vanilla. My qeuestions are... How many beans should I use (5 gallon batch)...

No I didn't add any sugar other than for carbonation at the end

I brought one gallon water to a boil, then added the two cans of extract to the water. Boiled at a gentle boil for an hour. Then I added about four gallons of water. I waited till the wort was till about 75 Then I pitched the yeast. I let sit in the fermentor for a week (fermentation was...

I did the two can dump, it was a malt and hops extract recipe

So I bottled my first batch of beer (nut brown ale) two weeks ago and I sampled one last week and again tonight. The beer how ever tastes thin with a strong alcohol after taste kinda like molson xxx. My qeuestions are what did I do wrong? From what I can tell I have good carbonation, it...

It was a 5 gallon batch. I did sanitize the hydrometer both times before using. I didn't use the yeast that came with the cans, i used an 11g pack of brewers yeast that the brew store gave me (don't know the brand). Like is said there is a good chance my readings were wrong. It just seems...

My OG was 1.040 (40) and my FG was 1.020 (20), so 40-20 x .129=2.58% First I'd like to point out this is the first time that I have brewed beer so there is a good chance I mis-read the hydrometer. I took both readings from the fermenting bucket; I did not turkey base a sample into another...

So I brewed my first batch of beer and took the original gravity and finishing gravity, subtracted the two then multiplied by .129 as I read to do in a book to get my alcohol content. The prob is after this equation I'm Getting that my content is 2.5% this seems really low. Does this sound...

Thanks for the link. I think it should be okay because it will have only been in there a week when I bottle. I guess i'll just peel it off and scrub the hell out of the area to make sure there is no left over glue. And if it makes the beer toxic at least i'll die happy, with a beer in my hand.

I put it in as I sanatized it so it got sanatized as well not quite as well as the bucket but I rubbed it down with a paper towel that had the sani solution on it

I do want to kick myself. I'm just hoping it didn't dissolve it something. It will really suck if wasted all that money and time.

Hey this is my first post and my first brew and of course I did something wrong. I was kinda distracted while i was getting my kit out and sanatized and put together. I accidently put my crystal thermometer (the sticker one) inside the bucket. I brewed it and it is fermenting and I just...