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I just put chamomile flowers in my Belgian wit. It tastes incredible. Check it out.

I dryhopped my pilsner after two weeks with an oz of whole leaf hallertau. Don't listen to anyone that says not to. The aroma after 4-5 weeks was awesome. Don't think I'd change a thing. Just a heads up that I added an extra # of dme into my wort to fortify my pilsner and it balanced the...

i read in charlie papazian's joy of homebrewing 3rd edition book that this can be done. in actuality it's what i hope to do when i go off to AG. i think he was saying to keep the holes in the bottom of the bucket though. you can use the edges of the bucket as a way to pull out the grain when...

i'll take a skunked tripel over a fresh bud light anyday...just sayin...

edb you're the man. i'll give it a try and let you know. thanks to everyone as well for the input.

thanks. i'd like to get away from rice and corn so i feel you all on switching to extra light dme. i'll see how that does. isn't caramel 10 gonna give me a little bit of a color issue? biscuit malt is a cool suggestion i'll def give that one a shot. and finally, i love cascades but isn't...

i keep it on top of my boil kettle while i'm trying to get the water to boil. The steam heats up the metal cover on my kettle, which helps soften the liquid on the plastic. turn it every once in awhile to distribute the heat, and then squeeze it from top to bottom. i also always tend to brew...

i'm no expert, just an armchair qb here. you might have affected your beer by leaving it out in the elements. between light striking the carboy (ever had a corona back in college that didn't taste like piss? me either) and the fluctuations in temperature outside, there could be a couple of...

don't know where sound beach is my dude, but i live in new york and i get all my stuff from northern brewer online. 6lb liquid malt extract will cost about $15- i've found that i pay about the same for ingredients in a kit that i do if i buy all my own ingredients. the only difference is that...

I'm an Extract brewer. I'm trying to brew a 10 gallon batch of a Light Ale this weekend. Let me know what you think: 6LB Pilsner LME from NB 1LB Briess Extra Light DME 1LB Rice Syrup Solids 1LB German Pilsner Malt for steeping (not set on this one- want to add an extra dynamic to the...

see, this is where the discrepancy comes in. you guys all seem to reuse your bottles. i commend your painstaking ability to drink a bottle, clean a bottle, and store a bottle. i, on the other hand, do it the hard way- i go to a beer distributor and buy every last brown popoff bottle that they'll...

Within a month I'll buy a tank and then it's on. Til then I'll have a couple of these days to look forward to. I feel you on the starsan. I did hear you can reuse it which is cool in itself. How do you clean bottles with starsan? I mix my bleach with water and fill all bottles with bleach...

i knew someone would say something about bleach. yea, its more work, yea it burns, yea it ****s your clothes up, yea you get dizzy if you don't open a window...but no it's not expensive at all, no i don't bleach my kettle that is about to get boiled anyway, no i don't usually have to scrub...

i had to bottle a batch that was kegged which contributed to this issue. i have a corny without a co2 tank- pretty stupid idea to naturally carb a keg and expect it to be ready on time. i see multiple keg setup in the near future. but you gotta learn to write print to write in script, right...

And I'd say you're right. 25 gallons of bottling yesterday, 5 gallons of which are not shown here. Belgian Wit Toasted Oak Pilsner "Not At All" Light Ale American Candi Amber Strong English Herbal Ale And brewed up a batch of Dunkel. All I gotta say is that I'm glad I had to drive after...

Yea just about. Interestingly enough based on a typical hef you're 1% off target abv. How long did you let it age before you bottled it? How much extract/grain did your recipe call for? Maybe you diluted your batch with more water than anticipated? Whatever the case, enjoy the hobby, keep a...

+1 to Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. And +1 to all aroma hops. My other suggestion would be to pair a more hoppy beer like a hopheaded Pale Ale with some hot wings. Let your friends use the pale ale to extinguish the heat from the wings. Ive always found the bitter to go well with the fire. Maybe...

lol looks like those sour hops, i may have made a few batches with those....

while i agree not too poo poo a volunteer beer drinking session, i'm not going to spend 100 right now plus gas fill to get my friends drunk when i can get them drunk @ 5 cents a bottle for empties from the local beer distributer. .05 per bottle x 48 bottles= $2.40 per 5 gal batch $100 + fill=...

the only thing i could speculate is that the carboy has an airlock, which allows for the co2 to blow out. maybe the airlock pushes the oxygen trapped in the carboy out as well when it bubbles? the keg on the other hand has no airlock, so if it's sitting for a week in contact with oxygen, it...