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Had something strange happen with the last two brews I made off my own recipe. The beer as soon as you open it starts foaming up. All the bottles have done this so far. I used 12 pounds of Gold LME (Light) from Midwest Brewing. 2 pounds of Crystal 10 grains that were steeped for 30...

Welcome to Yard House Restaurants - Great Food, Classic Rock, World's Largest Selection of Draft Beer Food is average at best. They do have a large beer selection, but I would like MUCH more in the line of IPA's.

Bottles I gathered and still gather from drinking pro breweries. As for new equipment I look at the months expenses and buy what I need based on what I can spend. I will buy all grain equipment soon, but need to research it. Considering that a homebrew costs on average .50 for an extract brew...

Yep let em sit. I let mine ferment for 6 months before bottling. Had a 6 pack on labor day. It was good, but I know it can get better.

Is your kit a Brewers Best IPA kit? If so, I have used WL California Ale Yeast and it has come out very well. If you don't like bitter beers, change the Hop additions to 1 oz Columbus at 60 mins and then put the 2 OZ of Columbus at 40 mins or space it where 1 oz is used at 40 mins and another...

I saw you say cover, don't cover your beer when brewing to avoid off flavors. If you can brew with more water, do it. The more the better. I never brew with less than 5.5 gallons, but I bought a brew pot for that purpose.

I bought a couple good kits from Midwest Brewing. Simcoe IPA and Fuggles are good. Ferocious IPA is VERY tasty.

The FG was right in line with what the kit called for. Also 3 of my 4 bottle's that blew up were Fat Tire Bottles.

Of the six pack where I had three bottles exploded, I left the bottles in the fridge for 24 hours then poped them this evening and they were tasty with no infection. No idea why those three bottles blew up. Hopefully thats the only time I have a bottle bomb.

Haven't sampled any of the beers yet. I have a stockpile where the beer isn't usually consumed until it has been in the bottle for four months. Yes a Hydro reading was taken for 3 days. Same Sugar levels as the last 10 beers I have bottles as I bought three bags of 4 pounds sugar from...

I have brewed 40 batches and have bottled 35 of them so far. However after a week of vacation I come back and two different batches had exploded bottles. The temp in the house remained consistant, I used the same sugar mixture I have used in other batches to bottle with 5 oz of sugar and 1...

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Just started my newest batch 5.38 gallons of Motts Apple Juice 2 pounds 6 ounces of corn sugar 8 Table Spoons of Brown Sugar 2 Table Spoons of Cinnamon Nottingham Ale Yeast Going to let this sit about 5 months before bottling Came to be 1.070 SG

I finally bottled my first batch made with WLP300 the last weekend. Had some left over during bottling and gave it to my brother in law to finish since he wanted to try it. The version he had was room temp and tasted dry to me. Then again it was 2am and this was the second batch we had...

I started my batch back in February and I'm getting ready to finally bottle it and I plan on using sugar to carb it up. Can't wait to bottle this one.

I have my first batch ready to bottle. It took 5 months to fully clear to where I felt it was ready. The gravity reading was 0.995 and I have it cold crashing for a week before I bottle it. I will immediately start the next batch and can't wait. Like some beers it gets better with age and I...

The BB Imperial IPA is decent but I think it needs some tweaks. The 2 oz of Hops at the 60 min mark can be cut to 1 oz. Save that 1 oz for the dry hop, or buy an additional 1 oz of Columbus hops, and then do a 60, 40, 20, 2 min hop addition and use that extra 1 oz as a dry hop.

Is anyone going to this? Welcome to AleFest Chicago Just found out about it myself. Thinking of dragging the wife and drinking some of her samples while there.

As mentioned prior, Two Brothers has extremely basic supplies. I bought a kit from there and my friend did also and they were the worst two kits we ever had and the beer would not carbonate up also. If your close and you need some WL yeast it's a good place to stop or a pound of specialty...

Once you get started on IPA's it's hard to drink another beer. A few of my favorites: Double Dog Hop Wallop Flosmore Stations on Tap IPA Three Floyds Beers