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I agree with what was said here. I used a roll of screen door mesh, you could use the mesh part out of a window if you want to, place them on there and in one of the mentioned places above and let it sit. Mine dried out pretty quick and I just used some in a batch a few days ago. Good Luck

Congrats on getting into a great hobby! Tips: Sanitize everything, use a checklist How to Brew by Palmer has a great one and a lot of good info for you. 2: Have an area ahead of time where you can keep the temperature consistently within the range of the yeast 3: Nothing wrong with having...

Id gladly take it :) Thanks for doing this

Hey Tuna I have heard of people keeping brew in carboys over a year with no ill results. If you naturally carbonate the brew you may need to re-pitch yeast. What I do to avoid oxidization starts on day one. After boiling the wort it is important to get the temperature of it below 80...

Wolf had a good point about the temperature of the beer. Not sure if this is the case but your hydrometer will read differently at different temperatures. Typically you will need to add points to the measured OG. Hope this helps

SANITIZE EVERYTHING!! Find a check list and even sanitize your scissors. Make sure you have a place you can leave the brew for 2-4 weeks that will stay at the temp you need for your yeast. Make sure you have enough ice to make an ice bath for your brew pot for cooling. Get beer below 80...

Wow seems like a small world the 3 of us so close. Im bummed to see how much of a price difference there is between locally and online supplies. I understand why but I could have saved about $10 by going through http://www.midwestsupplies.com/ and thats with shipping. I like buying local but...

Hey thanks for looking for me. Yeah that is a bit steep for me as well. A bit low on funds at the moment but I appreciate you searchin for me. I went back down to brewers haven today and picked up the rest of my ingredients. They had pin lock kegs for $40 and ball lock kegs for $52. You were...

I was actually just at brewers haven today and picked up some hops and yeast. Not a bad place but it was busy and there was only 1 guy working so I couldnt get my questions answered or much help. Generally about mid day they have 2 gals and the owner there so they are all more than helpful. I...

Wow this is really cool site and thanks for the input. Im guessing that a balanced beer would be right in the middle of that scale so it looks like it could use a bit more hops to get more of a balanced flavor. Could you explain to me why I should use the lighter extract? Im still new and...

Thats a fantastic suggestion! Yeah I would much rather have a caramel flavor. I have no experience making porters so any other pointers would be great. Thanks Rev

Hey Dj nice to see someone local as well. Ill head on over and check out the the other tread to see if i can scavage some more info from it. I dont think i have been doing this much longer than you have and its a really fun hobby. Im hoping to make my best brew yet! Been wanting to make a...

Hey Folks so here goes nothin I wanted to make a pumpkin porter for fall and here is what I figured out. Looking about the forums I have found a few great tips (i think) and what I have decided on. Its going to be an extract with specialty grains for 5 Gal 6# Dark LME 3.3# Light LME...

Thanks for the great replys guys :) Bob, Patience is still one of the major things I am working on. Your explaination was great that makes much more sense non. Ive got some gelatin i will give a try next time. Ive have also seen that cooling before racking has been noted to help. Just not...

So for starters I am new. I only have 4 batches under my belt but i'm getting there. I was wondering if there was an ale yeast that offered both high attentuation as well as med-high flocculation? I just made a english ale with nottingham yeast which did great for attenuation but just had a...

Hey on your 3.3% ABV I think that sounds about right. I am still new to the hobby but I thought i remember somewhere reading that the priming sugar from bottling brings ABV up by .5% putting you at your 3.8% Please correct me if im wrong. On the other side of things its nice to see some die...

Looks great! Way to start cranking out the brew. You'll have your beer soon enough. After that you will have more beer than your poor liver can handle :drunk:

Best of luck to ya! Way to go on the 1st post I know mine was an epic fail of a question(or so it seemed). What are you brewing up?

Alright well thanks for the replys folks. I just came across one for free and was trying to see if i could put it to any use. Sounds like not for my brewing

Hey Folks i'm new to the forum as well as to brewing and I wantd to know if any of you have tried to use one of the carbonators that they use to carb up water for soda machines. Ive looked into blending high volume beer with water but I was wondering if I could blend high volume beer with...