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Would it be ok to use 3/4cup of Table sugar (cane) to carb/prime a 5 gallon batch of Apfelwein (sp?). I have heard that the disadvantage of using table sugar is that it would impart a cidery taste to beer. I dont think it would matter in this case. Will this work and how much table sugar to...

I live in Georgia as well and it is Legal.

There is a guy that works with me that drinks nothing but warm milwakees best. He will not drink anything else and even seems to get upset when offered anything else. I assume him and Craigtube are cut from the same cloth in this fashion...they simply like what they like even if it tastes...

Please redirect me if I am posting in the wrong place but this seemed like a newb question so I decided to try here. I am have a problem that I am going to need to solve pretty quickly as I only have 2-3 weeks befor bottling. I have around 20 gallons of brew going right now and a small...

As some of you know I made this post about a week ago. So fearing that the brew wouldn’t ferment and be open to infection (due to using ale yeast and so on) I decided to open her up and take a peek. No infection/bad smell and definite signs of fermentation. What I want to ask you guys is...

Thanks guys! Yeah. I will add the yeast this weekend when I can make it to my LHBS. I guess waiting a few days wont hurt much. I am a bit worried though because I have yet to see any bubbling in my blow-off for this one yet. Ill be patient and hope that this turns out.

Ok so I was out of town and decided to have my friend start a batch of Aphelwine for me. He has helped me brew before so I thought this would be easy for him. So I gave him simple instructions..5 gal of apple juice, 2lbs of corn sugar and add champagne yeast. Well he thought the 4lb bag of corn...

I have always bought pre-hopped kits before but this time I decided to switch to a recipe. When I was getting everything together my LBS guy told me I did not need to steep my hops during the boil and to just dump them in. Does this seem right? I took their advise and dumped in the bittering...

At $3.00 for 300 caps I doubt it would be worth the effort.

Muntons Wheat Kit. The can says it is 4lbs. I am making a 5 gal batch.

OK I have brewed a few batches of pretty good tasting beer using a couple varieties of canned kits. always using 1lb of dry malt to add to the kit. The first LHBS told me to add 1lb of malt per 4lbs of the liquid Kit. I traveled to a second LHBS and they said no way to use only 1lb that I...

No im not blind but its a nickname I have had forever (long story). Yeah me and a buddy of mine went to Wild bills here in atlanta and all they served was BMC. The only non-bmc they had was that fart-water people like to call heineken. So anyway we order 2 millers and I swear I could barely...

Last weekend I placed into secondarys a brown ale and the same wheat recipe I did before but with 4-5 lbs of blackberrys added to the secondary. When the de-seeded blackberry puree was added to the fermented wort the color is TERRIBLE to behold. Imagin just the worst brownish-purple yuck color...

So I decided to start brewing about 2 months ago. As I usually do I decided to go a bit over board and get enought to brew 10 gallon batches insted of one 5 gallon because I wanted to brew 2 differant beers at once. I brewed an Irish red and a belgian wheat. Now after 6 weeks we decided that...

Im pretty new to this, only having brewed a few batches so far. Thankfully all of them have turned out wonderful. Well with my last batch of Muntons wheat extract I decided that I was going to try to make a blackberry wheat. I boiled a around 2 cups of water and once the boil cooled to about...