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ahh, my old stomping ground, welcome! Dont exactly miss winters up there but I have to say since I left there 6 years ago I havent been able to a scotch ale & oatmeal stount as good as the Town Hall Brewery's. mmmmm.... can you steal their recipes for me? :mug:

its a pretty easy step, but kind of boring... so don't make any dumb mistakes. Like I did when I backed up into 4 full, but uncapped bottles when i tried to avoid the spill that I made from knocking over the beer i was drinking. Not very graceful but my kitchen is about the size of a...

My girlfriend was a big reisling fan untill I got her hooked on dilerium trems, hoogarden, wheat beers, and framboise. ...and when i feel like getting a dirty look I'll have her take a sip of whatever stout i'm usually drinking :D

I'm with you, a pie taste in the bottle might be a bit much. Its the spices and the hint of pumpkin that I really enjoy. The best one I've had (and am looking forward to drinking lots of again) is dogfish head's "Punk-in" ale. http://www.dogfish.com/brewings/Seasonal_Beers/Punkin_Ale/3/index.htm

pick a simple recipie so you can focus more on the process of it, and as hard as it it... try to ignore it. Too much worrying can cause more harm then good. lmao

transfered this guy into the secondary last night and sampled the hydrometer reading (1.018) and good lord it is good! And it gets better with age? Because seriously, 1 week old and flat its the best tasting thing i've had in awhile. I'm temped to drink it straight from the carboy... :D

not sure about midwest, I got the delux kit from austinhomebrew.com, good quality and it arrived 3 days after i placed the order (free shipping) I've also heard good things about northernbrewer.com. you can either go ahead an order an ingredient kit from either for your first brew or just...

so plastic bucket it is then. thanks!

That book is a great resource. A quick question to add here, has anyone had any ill effects from bottling straight from the secondary? Is it even reccomended or does mixing the priming suger in undo all the settling done in the secondary? Reason I ask is I dont have a bottling bucket and...

deja vu...

it was in the 70's when i took the reading so it shouldn't add that many points to the reading. I was actually thinking this morning, I took it right after i dumped in the top off water & yeast and hadn't stirred them all together; so maybe its possible that the majority of the wort was still...

The process of making it went quite well, I dropped the chocolate, so the specialty grains were just 1 lb crystal/.75 lb munich. Great color so far! The only concerning thing is at the end of it all I took the SG reading (right after i dropped the yeast in) and it was only 1.03 ( the same...

Turns out im a compleate idiot and they had some crystal malt hidden in the corner behind the boxes of empty bottles: so the grains I have are: 1 lb crystal 60l (the only kind they had) .5 munich (i have a whole lb of it, should i add more?) .25 chocolate The honey sounded good, but...

Thanks for the help so far guys, did a little bit of tweaking on it, dropped the 2-row (which will save me from mashing, not quite ready for that) and added more specialty grains, hops. Its actually starting to get close to a english strong ale recipie i saw. What do you guys think? 6 #...

from what I recall: Belgian Pale Ale Malt, Munich Malt , Vienna Malt, Wheat, Chocolate Malt, Barley, Caramel, Honey, 2-row and some assorted flakes that I didnt pay too much attention to.

For my second brew ever, I'm going for a ESB... or was hoping to at least The origional recipie I got from somewhere was: -- 6 # pale LME 1 # crystal malt .5 # victory 1.5 kent goldings @ 60 min .5 kent goulding @ 20 min 1 oz fuggles @ 5 min Wyeast#1968 -- But, It turns out my...

pariah, keep posting on how this turns out please. I'm going through a similar situation, There's krausen, just no bubbling (although the inner part of the 3-piece airlock was floating rather high for a day)

well they just sent out the correct lid to me, which should be here by this weekend so I can be on my way and not worry about a sloppy cut hole! chask31: No, no bottling bucket was provided... but it came with a spring loaded bottle filler and an autosyphon... which seems mighty handy.

Gruntingfrog, good call, they did send me the wrong lid for the primary. Lou, no intentional relation... Its the name of a sarcastic pick-pocket in Oliver Twist and there's also a bar here in Chicago of the same name.

cool, thanks for the great tips guys! I'll get drilling that universal hole.