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I've started playing BF 2142 a lot, since I've earned my first unlock I want to get them all! I used to be quite a CS addict, but the majority of the community have the personality of an insolent rhino with genital warts. I am osososososo tempted to buy a Wii. I grew up playing the NES so...

I've been meaning to try the Gimp, supposedly it's better than Photoshop (whether that's based on price I'm not entirely sure... Photoshop is way expensive). I bought several Photoshop tutorial magazines after "acquiring" a copy of Photoshop and it's amazing what you can do after learning to use...

Thanks for the Ebay advice, I've found a sale for two for £40 with 1p postage *^_^* The only gripe I have with the description is this: LIDS HAVE NO PRESSURE RELEASE VALVES AND MUST BE VENTED THROUGH THE GREY DISCONNECT, Nothing to worry about right? I don't know too much about Cornys...

We're not so lucky here in the UK, my HBS has brand new cornys for £89.95 ($170). Ridiculous no? Cheapest I've found them online was £60 ($115). You would have thought they were gold plated kegs. Havn't found an American website that delivers to the UK either. Anyone from the UK know...

Nobody's had this problem with Better Bottles have they? I'd be distraught if they could possibly cause this... I'll just have to be careful not to scratch them I guess :)

My closet doesn't smell particularly sulphuric unless you put your nose right up the the airlock. Argh it stinks! ... the smell of progress *^_^*

I was disturbed by the trub of my first partial mash brew, it looked like yeasty colored frog spawn :drunk:

ollllo I think you made a mistake in your calculations too... ummm Schlenkerla's post counted 254.5 vtbrew contributes 15 gal in total, so that comes to 269.5 Add tron's 5 gal and we have 274.5 Juuust cleaning up :) Man, that a lot of apfelwein *^_^*

I have it on pretty much every brew, it just seems to be the residual krausen that is just that little bit more stubborn that the bulk of the krausen. Nothing to worry about at all :)

I'd definitely recommend Better Bottle, I bought one without the spigot since that practically doubled the price. Although a spigot would be convenient, I find a carboy cap works just as well. Makes for easy racking :)

If you would prefer a sweeter Apfelwein I've read that people have used brown sugar in replacement to corn sugar. And I'm pretty sure table sugar would be fine, when making beer it imparts a cidery flavor but I don't think this would matter... since you're going for that kind of flavor anyway :)

Old speckled Hen bottles have been my worst so far, the labels seem to be made out of plastic/foil which doesn't rip off like normal paper labels, even after a soak. And when I did manage to prise a corner away, the glue made sure I got no further. I just gave up and bottled anyway.

Yeap only 1 Gallon for me too as a test batch Thread total: 168

I'm really sorry if this has been asked before, but 60 plus pages of thread is a lot to rifle through :D I am planning to make a couple of 1 gallon batches using different yeasts - a wine, a champagne and an ale yeast, just to see the difference and see what I prefer, but using ale yeast, won't...

A banana beer I once tried had quite a spicy twang to it, but it didn't really have a major banana flavour, more of an aroma. I've found banana and alcohol does work quite well together, I make a banana liqeur by steeping mashed banana in half a bottle of vodka, leaving it for a month, filtering...

I've always started the siphon using my mouth and have had no problems. I know that it's considered a mortal sin here, but until I get round to buying an autosiphon or a batch gets horribly contaminated, I'll carry on :) It's just easier IMHO. Footnote so I can't be held responsible by people...

I remember when I first saw the brown deposits on top of the krausen, and thought the beer had been contaminated. I came to these forums and made a thread similar to this one. The paranoia will soon disappear, I think it's a lot harder to mess a batch up than you think (All mine have been great...

You could also refer to the Secondary as a "Clearing Tank". You just take the beer off the yeast layer in the primary so more yeast can fall out of suspension in secondary, making the beer clearer. It's a matter of preference really, Since I've used a secondary my beers have been a lot clearer.

They're only estimations, I hope it was on the lower side. It had been in the ice bath for quite a while. I guess I'll have to wait and see.

Brewed on Saturday, used an ice bath to cool 3 gallons of wort but it took forever, and after a while I got impatient and poured it into the primary and topped up, aerating it nicely. It wasn't quite at the ideal temperature, around 85 - 100 F, and I was wondering whether hot side aeration would...