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If you want to use your standard fridge without using it all for beer, you're options are one of these: http://www.northernbrewer.com/mini-kegs.html THere's also this: http://www.partypig.com/ It seems that people either love or hate these things, but I think they'll all get the job...

yeast is tough, you'll be fine. My wife ordered me a kit last summer, no ice pack for the liquid yeast, and left it in her car for 2 weeks in august. Beer turned out fine, although it took 6 days for the smack pack to swell...

I got them at my LHBS for $25 each. Not too bad, from looking around it seems like on eBay you can get them for around $35 for two, but with shipping it works out to $50 or more. The homebrewing.org kegs would have saved me $10 on two, but I'm impatient :) Of course, they smell like sprite so...

Ok, so I should just buy one eh :) Would this work? http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92809 Harbor freight is near my house, no shipping. Also no details on it. I assume a Co2 tank is a Co2 tank though right? I don't know how many pounds a 20 cu ft tank...

Can someone enlighten me on the usual practice for Co2 filling/exchange? I have everything but a co2 tank for kegging. Most of the local places charge $85 for a new 5lb tank, mail order seems to be around $65 shipped. Do most of the chain gas places do exchanges or fills? If they do...

A heaping tsp seems like too much sugar to me... Most people use around 5 oz of corn sugar per 5 gallon batch, which would work out to a little over half a tsp per bottle. Too much sugar would get more yeast multiplying and more yeast in the final product.

Extracts are just condensed wort. There aren't very many types because there aren't many types needed. Most beers are made with most of the grain being a certain base malt (usually 2-row barley), then some other small amounts of specialty grains added for flavor. Your malt extract is just a wort...

well I ended up doing my batch with milk, because I had it on hand. I'd highly recommend it.. Granted I haven't tried a glue stick, but I can't imagine it would be as quick and easy as milk since with the glue stick you'd have to trace around the edges which would be more time consuming. I...

Ok that could work, I wasn't sure if you could just give it a shot and take it off the gas and actually have it carbonate... I'm curious though, why would carbing it with sugar cause more sediment? All it adds to the beer is sugar, which will almost entirely be converted to alcohol and CO2...

Barleywines are typically 9-12% ABV, so figure double the fermentables of your average 4-6% homebrew...

Actually I would imagine it would be quite common to carb a keg with sugar if you have more kegs than you have fridge space. I only plan on having 2 kegs at a time in our fridge, but I plan to have backup kegs aging in the basement. As I understand it that means I can either prime the keg with...

#1 and #2 would require a partial mash for the 6-row malts. #3 could just be steeped. Otherwise they're similar, but would probably have slightly different characteristics. Honestly if you want to reformulate for more alcohol and balance out the hops, your best bet is to get some brewing...

The tap a draft setup also needs a lot less height, since it uses pet bottles laying on the side. Another advantage there is you can use 3L soda bottles with it, which makes replacements cheap. With mini kegs and tap a draft bottles, you only get so many batches out of them... I've never found a...

The tap-a-draft system is pretty popular with the folks on the ratebeer.com forums, one tip I found over there is to use only one CO2 cart for dispensing, rather than two. Several people over there have said that they had problems with carbonation and the carts running out far too soon, and...

I think the only way you'll get down to $15 a batch ($3 a gallon) is to scrounge equipment, or brew all grain buying in bulk. If you bought a 50lb sack of 2row locally, that would do say 5 decent pale ales. Say you could find that sack for $25, that's $5 a brew. Add in a few bucks for some...

Well I also had a bottle of Stone IPA and Arrogant Bastard, both of which I really liked. I haven't tried any of their big beers yet...

I'm looking for some more ideas on beers to try, out of fear that maybe I'm just not the type of guy who likes big highly revered beers :) I've been trying some lately, shelled out a small fortune, and overall I've been pretty underwhelmed... So far I have sampled: Westmall Tripel - this was...

Most of my friends drink bud light :( I've been contemplating small batches for some beers I won't drink that often. I'm tempted to do a barleywine in a 1 gallon glass jug from apple cider...

BeerAlchemy is pretty good, and it fits in nicely as a mac app. A cross platform app usually has a hard time getting the right 'feel' on a mac, so who knows... Only reason I haven't paid for beer alchemy yet is that I think $30 is a bit much for what this kind of software does. I could whip...

Hmmm, looks interesting... Two problems I see are that there is no demo available to try before you buy (this is really rare in the mac software world) and they have both mac and pc versions. I've developed my share of mac software and I know how hard it is to make an application available on...