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i recently made a brew riquiring a blow off. i just left the rubber gromet in place on the lid and stuck the tubing into that, that way you wont need to tape anything. as far as how deep, contrary to what "she" might tell you, not very. in fact, only enough to pass the gromet, maybe an 1/8"...

i'm assuming he added the glass carboy for purpose of 2 stage fermentation, not as a direct replacement. as far as starting goes, i started with a kit and it came out great using single stage in the bucket. for your first one, i wouldn't worry about it unless you feel you want to go that...

i just started a cherry ale this weekend what i did, though not truely applicable to you was ... freeze cherries for a couple of days. then defrost cherries and remove stems. i then placed them in the 1st stage fermenting bucket and using a potato masher, crushed them. while i was making...

so yesterday i brewed my first fruit beer using 8+ lbs of cherries. now i'm using a 6.5 gallon fermenting bucket for stage one, but in the interest of avoiding a blow off, i replaced the airlock with a blow off tube. i fit a piece of tubing through the rubber gromet in the lid and fed the...

i too am planning on doing a fruit beer, actually i'm going to make it tomorrow so this is a interesting topic. i'm making a cherry ale using 8 lbs of cherries. now i'm very new to homebrewing, less than a year, but here is how i understand it: at which step one adds the fruit to the wort...

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it all depends what flavor of beer you like, not me. the california common is pretty much a standard american ale and a very good one at that. i would definitely recommend it as it is very good. what i was attempting to say and perhaps i said this poorly, was that i prefer dark beers to any...

i made the beligan witbeir kit from nt and my first taste, about a month after bottling was very good taste, not very full body. however, as that was my first batch, i soon learned as time passed the beer get significantly better as time passed an the body became much better as well. i still...

since there seems to be a large contingent of buffalo brewers on this thread and i just registered, i figured i would add to the group. and yes no tokens was great last year at brewfest, it will be interesting to see how it goes this year with the tokens.

just heard abou this site from a fellow member, thought i would check in introduce myself. i'm pretty much a beginner, i've brewed 2 kits so far from niagara traditions, the local home brewer store and i'm set to start my first custom recipe this weekend. glad to join the brewing community...