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If I had to venture a guess, I'd say she's pissed about all the money you're spending on brewing. No problem, I've figured out a method so that SWMBO is none the wiser to money I've spent. eBay has a nice little feature called "bill me later", Which is an interest free purchase as long as you...

No offense, but I'd go get 5 gallon equipment. 1 gallon batches are just too small in my opinion.

When your wire says you spend more time brewing than with her.

Pretty long I'd say, keep it sealed and you'll be fine. They say homebrew can be stored up to a year before it starts to go bad.

Thx....but not really into ginger

Just looking for a lighter, mild hops recipe right now. Brewed some darker beers on my last two batches, so I'm looking to go away from those. Would like something that's "session able". You know....something you can drink a lot of in one sitting and get drunk on. A clone might be nice.

So I've hit a wall; can't think of a recipe for my brew day Thursday. Plan on doing an extract, and looking for a lighter beer with a higher gravity. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I make extract kits with a 3.5 gallon pot. Just follow what the thread says and you'll be fine.

Just remember....put most of the LME extract in at FO. Otherwise you'll get the carmelizing. But I'm sure you already know this. I really like NBs dark LME. If used right, it makes some good dark beers.

Get rid of the safeale 05 and go get some wyeast 1056....much better fermentation and taste. 05 leaves some fruity esters just like the coopers dry yeast....even when fermented in the low 70s.

Try the NB chocolate milk stout extract kit. Pretty good beer. I have a batch of it kegged right now and it's the bomb. Has a little sweet finish with the pound of lactose you put in.

Lactose is unfermentable. Make her something light with a pound or two of honey in it. That's what I did and she drank a lot of it.

Definitely had krausens like that....one of my best batches looked like that.

I always add my LME at flame-out. Seems to get rid of the tang and make some damn good beer. Just made the NB milk stout which is amazing. Added most the LME at FO.

Craig's awesome. You have to check out his cast on Justin.tv Friday nights starting at 9pm central.

Dude....Salvatore, that's some good ****. Totally blacked out once in college on that stuff.

Keg it....it's done

I'd maybe steep in 2 pounds of 2 row or 6 row. Other than that it looks good.

I'd go with either 1kg(2.2lb), or 3 lb of DME. The can alone wont get your OG high enough to give you a decent ABV once you start fermenting. A rule of thumb I always use is whenever I'm adding a kg of corn sugar, I always add between 5 and 8 oz of maltodextrin to give the beer more of a body...

Here's my recipe: 6# NB gold LME 2# medium 2-row 1# crystal 1 oz Amarillo (60) 1 oz centennial (30) 1 oz cascade (15) 1 oz cascade (0) Coopers dry ale yeast, ferment 7 weeks 4 oz cascade dry hops Steeped grains at 150-153 for 30 mins.