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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays fellow brewers. Christmas Cheers ! :mug:

My wife was a little skeptical at first but.... by the second brew day she was all about it. Now she encourages trips to the LHBS and goes with... Helps out with brewing, bottling, capping, cleaning the whole works. By the third batch she was de-labeling bottles and getting ready for the...

Right on... Got the Big Ass Texas Brown Ale in the fermenter and bubbling away ! Merry Christmas !

Brewed a new batch. Big Ass Texas Brown Ale ! (Extract + steeped specialty grains and bittering hops! (Amarillo) flavoring hops (Willamette)and aroma hops (Cascade) Full one hour boil. Cleaned all equipment. Delabled 48 bottles and cleaned them. Two hours later airlock is showing...

Fermenter #1.... Belgian Wheat Fermenter # 2... Big Ass Texas Brown Ale Bottled: Canadian Blonde

Nice place! They have everything for brewing, wine making, cheese, soda making and more. They also have just about everything you can imagine as far as equipment. They have tons of kits for everything from simple LME brewing, and specialty grain steeping to all grain. Their employees are...

Wife and I bottled our first batch last night. She washed the bottles using the attachment on faucet. Then she sanitized using vinator on table (more comfortable than reaching up to top of tree. Once sanitized she put them on tree. Then put caps in vinator. Meanwhile I was sanitizing all...

Update... My first batch is bottled. Now I just have to wait for a couple of weeks for it to carbonate and then chill. Have a second brew in the fermenter for a week now. (Belgian Wheat) Planning to brew tomorrow. (Big Ass Texas Brown Ale) :mug:

I hear ya ! We just bottled our first batch. Went to the LHBS today. I now have a second batch in the fermenter for one week. Now up to three fermenters. Bought three more ingredient kits today and a glass Carboy. It just keeps growing and growing. LOL. I think I might be showing...

Nice ! I think I will probably bottle for a while and in the meantime start picking up kegging equipment as I go along. I may even just build a Keezer... Thanks for the input and advice.

The wife and I went to a LHBS today that we had not been to before. Defalco's in Houston Texas. Nice place, great service by knowledgeable folks. So, $182.00 later we got out of there. Ended up getting the following... Three ingredient kits.. Big Ass Texas Brown Ale. 6.0 % ABV. 1.060...

Going to a LHBS today that I have not been to yet. Will be looking for ideas for my next brew. Thinking about some sort of IPA or a Dark Ale. Then I will most likely bottle a batch of Coopers Canadian Blonde that is ready to go. This will free up one of my fermentors for another brew.:rockin...

No worries and you're right I should lighten up some. I usually don't come off that way. Thanks for your feedback earlier in my post. Back to Beer discussion.... My priming sugar is weighed. I am planning to batch prime using 5oz. For the 5 gal. brew. (LHBS recommended). Your thoughts on...

Thoughts.........I guess I overlooked the typo.....my bad Funny how you picked that out but had no intelligent feedback to the subject matter of my post.............

Update on my first brew ! Airlock activity has come to a stop. FG = 1.006 Beer is somewhat clear and has a great taste ! :ban: ABV = 4.45% Plan to transfer to bottling bucket tomorrow and bottling. I plan to let it carbonate for two weeks then put it in the fridge. Looking...

Update on my first brew ! Airlock activity has come to a stop. FG = 1.006 Beer is somewhat clear and has a great taste ! :ban: ABV = 4.45% Plan to transfer to bottling bucket tomorrow and bottling. I plan to let it carbonate for two weeks then put it in the fridge. Looking forward to...

That is exactly what I did. I brewed a Belgian Wheat Beer with Orange peel and coriander. put it in the fermenter at 9:00pm Used Safbrew WB-06 Yeast OG was 1.042 I had activity within an hour or so. Checked it this morning and the blowoff tube was bubbling away.:rockin:

Tell me about your brew and how it went. I always like to here the news.... I feel like it helps us all learn from each other.

We get it free ! It is about $40.00 a bottle normally. One of the owners at my wife's company makes vodka and rum that is carried by Spec's Liquor Stores here in Texas. No cost to us !! :ban:

Update..... Ok... It is in the fermenter. The wife was in the brewing mood so we jumped in ! :rockin: I used the recipe in the original post. We steeped the orange peel and the coriander for about 20 mins. Note: we vacu-sealed the coriander and the wife crushed it then put it a muslin sack with...