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Hi all. My newest batch is a pilsner with 3 lemons, 6 oranges and 3 limes all juiced and put through a filter. Pix at home will post later* The guy has been sitting in stage 1 for 2 weeks and then moved over to stage 2 for 5 weeks. Bottled and now its week 2. Tried one of my fruity...

Help meeeeeeeeeeee lol :P What bottle caper would you recommend? i use this billy. http://www.homebrewery.com/images/2-handle-capper.jpg

I have been using multiple caps on multiple bottle types. the problem is that red capping thing does not seal tightly enough. With hoegaarden where it has a ridge deep down i can clamp nice and hard to get the seal but with others I get some carb. Just not enough where when you open the bottle...

Did you make sure when you cap the bottles it is fully sealed? Try using a hot glue gun to seal the cap on all sides to the bottle to air tighten it. If you do this to 1 bottle and notice it carbs perfectly where the rest do not you may want to switch to this. Its what I do and every beer is...

I have noticed that after a few batches i was getting less then perfect carbonation. besides the hoegaarden bottles I never could get a perfect seal so headed out to the home hardware shop and picked up a high heat hot glue gun with a refill pack of 24 sticks. During my last bottling...

carona bottles can only be taken off with industrial grade acid from a science shop. I have tried soaking them in everything for 2 weeks = nothing. boiling them = nothing. even after I boil to the point where they crack the label stays on. sand gun worked but scratched the hell out of the...

I really want to get my hands on a bunch of these bottles :) Sadly we are talking 30$ for a 24 of them here :P

None taken. For my supplies I usually order from over seas.. I find they have better stuff then anything in north america :P Belgium supplies for the gold :D ** to be fair when summer is here and the farmers have fresh stuff at the market i grab a bag or 2 :)

The other place I go to is. DeFalco's For Brewers & Winemakers * 957 Gladstone Avenue Ottawa, Ontario With a quick 2 min google search I found a few places right near you. Beer Me! — Kingston Brewing Company — Kingston, Ontario, Canada Lyons Winery & Brewing...

I live in Ottawa right down town and there are 4 places local. My fav is the wine house right beside the mcdonalds on bank street right past south keys mall. It looks like a vintage house. But as I said there are about 4 huge ones 20 min from eachother you can pick from.

Sorry and yes I meant malt :/ I tried dry hopping it but I found it was not giving me the results I wanted.. So I instead mashed the crap out of the little seeds and boiled em in a dryhop sock until I got a nice thick fluid. Oh man the results are great... But then again i am kind of a...

2)Does any one have a Octoberfest German beer kit with the easy liquid mash? Thebrewhouse.com is one of the better places to get pre made wort kits ready to go. Kind of like making really good koolaid ;) They sell them all over the place here in Ottawa and they are fun to hack :D

Crystal malts Crystal malts are different from the other types of malts. They undergo a process that changes the starches in the grain to sugars and become caramelized. They can give a sweet somewhat caramel taste to the brew. They add to the body and head retention of beers. Crystal malts range...

Erm yeah... :drunk: Crystal malt is what I meant sorry lol. For some reason i was thinking malt but typed in hops :P " Crystal malts Crystal malts are different from the other types of malts. They undergo a process that changes the starches in the grain to sugars and become caramelized...

Ever since I made my first crystal hop hack i have been hooked to the thick head that comes with the addition. Now every beer I make has a nice boil of crystal hops added in and each one has a very tasty thick head like guiness. I think this may become my trademark ;) thick head...

Add in a nice helping of crystal hops for a nice thick head on your cream ale.. mmmm What I do is crush up the crystal hops and boil them in water for 40 min ( not your wort boil ). Let it cool in a clean 2L bottle ( after sitting for 20 min to cool a little ) Then add this into your wort when...

Well it has been 24 hours and nothing is formin on top of the beer since it has been moved :P phew! I will take another pix when I get home to show you guys. I think I was just over reacting to the sludge the hops made on the beer. When I went to wash the carboy the sludge basically was...

oooh i hope so... If this is the case in 2 weeks I should still have clear clean beer then I can bottle it without any worries :) Edit* yes they were the ones that come freeze dried in a package and they look like little pills that disolve into green pools when dropped into the beer.

I am kind of a non quitter. I took a fine coffee filter. Stuck it at the end of my auto syphon and spent 35 min sucking out 80% of this stuff into another clean carboy. I see no traces of the crap yet and after adding more dextros the burning flavour went away. I will let it sit 2 weeks in...

ha ha i love it. Please do so that I can put them on the back of my bottles as well :D