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Monk's Cafe Flemish Sour Ale.

Welcome back to brewing pretty sure you'll have a great time with it this go around and I have found the people on this site know a ton.

Being new to brewing also, I say feta starter kit for 5 gal also. You will quickly start to find recipes you want to make and may not be able to do it on a Mr Beer. I also will say in four months I have done four batches with two completely gone, one on tap next week and one fermenting away...

Thank you for your help. It is weird how much I geek out and stress about my beer as it ferments. Though reading HBT I am not the only one so I don't feel ashamed. :mug:

I use my thermopen to take temp so I know it is exact, it is certified and when I Q I check it for accuracy once a year. I am still new 4 batches total 3 of them are all grain. My exact percentage was 82.4% base 17.6% caramel. If that changes anything. I use a 10 g cooler tun with a...

I was able to use my racking cane and am at about 1.014 so I'm not too far off. There is no off flavor on the sips I took so maybe I was just paranoid. Thank you for the reply. As for the starter I always use beersmith to tell me what to pitch. Is that calculator off? I use a stir plate...

I have read several posts and articles on-line and still am only getting part of an answer to my question. I have an American Amber Ale that I pitched on 4/2 and it is still bubbling at four bubbles a minute ( I know that bubbles do not give an accurate measurement to fermentation.) I...

Hope your father gets well soon. Family comes first.

I jumped straight into all grain a few months ago. After four batches I whole heatedly have to say buy a bit bigger first. Get a 10gallon cooler tun and 10gallon pot or bigger. I had two 5gal igloos after my first batch and now one 5 and a 10. Also buy a bigger brew kettle, after my 5 gal i now...

The biggest issue I see is the logistics of who trades with whom and when. I could see a number system working well with a trade every 2-4 months (subject to a vote) Example: 1 sends to 2 2 sends to 3 3 sends to 4 and so on. Last number, in turn, sends to 1. To combat from each person only...

I'm pretty new, 4 brews so far but would like to participate and learn from others.

From what I have read in both books and on this site you will only really have an issue if you don't thoroughly clean and sanitize. If the bucket has a lot of scratches for the bacteria to live you may want a new bucket anyhow. Most of the texts say you only need to worry about scratches and...

Sorry Matt I didn't look to see you were in New Zealand, Go All Blacks! I live in California so I was going off our laws. I had know there is no problem giving beer away here. My LHBS serves its customers beers here and there, without charging, and it's never been an issue.

Being in the legal field, I say you give him all the beer he wants. It is a great gift and thus legal. If he gives you a great gift of cash or whatever, that is his choice. When granny gave you a card with a $100 bill the government never bothered with it, not that they wouldn't if yet could...

Knee Deep Brewing's Simtra! Brewed about twenty miles from me so I have to support my local brewers...

I just finished my keezer. Though it copies several others but I figured why change a working thing. Kenmore 8.8 freezer Beveragefactory.com 2 keg picnic set Added two Perlick 525ss with ss shanks Triple gas manifold so I can carb and serve Quick disconnect so I can take tank and keg out to...

+ 15=13946.5 5gal Belgian Blond 5gal Frankenwheat 5gal Somcoe'd Moose Drool offshoot

I'm not trying to hijack but quick question. If you feel the answer does not belong here can someone pm me the answer? When you age is it okay to age it at room temp in a keg that I have bled the oxy out of. I want to age an American Brown Ale and have never aged a beer yet.

Because I wanted new, minus the kegs, plus good old 8% CA sales tax and shipping was $400. The temp controller was $20 but I am nervous about it and might just throw down for a Johnson or Ronco I'm weighing my budget first. I found that the wood and hardware for the collar, I went with red oak...

I went to beveragefactory.com and got their two tap picnic tap set with a tank and two ball lock kegs and two 525ss with stainless shanks for less than their two tap conversion kit. It saved me like $60 doing it that way. All I need is beer line and clamps. It isn't the eBay/Craigslist route but...