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Howdy, This is a picture of three hydrometers. http://www.leebrewery.com/hydromet.htm One at OG, one at FG, and one is 'just water'. I've been brewing 15 years and seldom use mine. For ale: A week in the primary, a week in the sencondary, and bottle. Simple...

'99', Korea ... Isn't that really a little 'too'... austere! Knife

Fellow brewers, The 'quest' for a thousand bottles of beer {or ale} {The big buzz} is still going along swimmingly. I have been real nervous and out of sorts lately as I have not been following my own best advise, to keep my primarys full. I had a two week delay in my monthly DME...

Denubis, Yup, lots of hops. I am, as I type, brewing 8 Lbs of DME in 5 gallons of water. I will add 3/4 oz bittering hops, and 1/2 oz each of flavoring and aroma hops. I tried 3/4 oz and up to as much as 1 oz of flavoring and aroma hops, {Fuggles and Hallertau} and as much as 1 oz of...

The world awaits the word on how it tastes. I gotta make me some of that 15% 'stuff'. Knife

Ya'll, 'The Former Pantry Brewery' T.F.P.B. Update ... 225 bottles {actually bottled} of ale. 135 'bottles in secondarys, figuring '45 bottles' to a 5 gallon batch... And... get this... DME for three batches on hand and 55 Lbs PAID FOR !!! at the...

Suds and dibby, Howdy, yawl dern ole Scotsmen, 'Knife' here and its 2:30 in the morning here in Texas. "My liver knows what its doing" was the first thing I saw as I came back to the office here, while letting my bottles sanitize. I'm bottling the first of three batches of {'Mein Acht...

Hey Biggenius, Check out my website, there is a picture of me 25 years ago with Cottonjoe and Suemae {his sister} under 'storys.' All my dogs were poisioned and died horribly, poisioned by three cowards {brothers and white trash} who all died in prison two years ago. And not by the prison...

Purebloom, Don't worry about hydrating your yeast, just throw it in the carbouy with your 'wort' and shake it 5 minutes! A milk crate is great way to do so. Go out and steal yourself a few crates from behind the convenience store. They hold 25 -12 ounce bottles perfectly. Or 16 -22...

Gentlemen, Back on 1/3/07 I posted: I have a 'goal' of brewing 1,000 bottles of beer-ale. To qualify: I have brewed 1,000 bottles before, {thats only 100 gallons,} but the 'goal' is to have 1,000 'full' bottles on hand, all at the same place and at the same time. To be able to take a...

Torchiest, The carbouys in the pictures on your 'Gallery' are way too full. In see that they are marked with tape but are filled way over the mark, and they are marked 'way over' 5- 5.5 gallons. ie. Marked too high an filled too high too! I use 7 gallon carbouys for primarys and 5...

Gentlemen, My hat is off to the homebrew forum as a place, a 'forum', where ideas may be freely exchanged, and such good ones. The orginal question about: "What has beer done for the history of man?" Caught my eye as 'Zen' has always been an interest of mine. In fact an hour before I read...

Yup, I was going to say just that. I haven't used my hydrometer for years either, and actually need to become more conscious of my gravities. I'm learning full grain, and kegging, but just I brew D.M.E. In fact am brewing some right now, {filling the third, of three, 7.5 gallon...

Hi, My standard recipe for ale is 7-8 Lbs D.M.E. { 3/4 oz boiling hops, {a high alpha acid hops like warrior, 60' } and 1/2 oz of flavoring 15', and 1/2 oz aroma 5' { ' = minutes} A week in the primary and a week in the secondary. Then to bottles where a month or two will make it ready...

Recipes ... I have a problem. I am an old homebrewer and after years of trial and error have learned how to brew some good xxxx. D.M.E. and hops. I am endeavoring to brew alcohol which doesn't taste bad and I am doing pretty good. Working on the freezer and temp controller for lagering...

Sorry I was re-reading this old one and realized I had not mentioned I was 4,000' from my house and spittin distance from a road {ie. 50 yards} I just couldn't see it. Knife

Brewhead, I checked out the brewtoapian site, cool. Welcome to the 1,000 bottle of beer race. {I guess you won already...} but keep brewing. We have Texas, Alaska and now S. C. with massive homebrew hoards already building. Two friends came out today, and they brought Maredsous 10, and...

Onescaler, Cold ain't it? I just counted and there are 365 bottles in my former pantry, the 'wall' so to speak. 365 bottled and a batch in a primary. Tomorrow however I get paid! 55 lbs of pale DME and 35 more gallons to go. 350 bottles = over 700, but for what I drink.... 30...

Howdy, I would like to get into brewing 'lager-beer', rather than ale all the time. Kegerators seem to be for holding one or two corny kegs ready for dispensing, but are not big enough for ferminting several kegs, ' 4-5-6-8... over a long period of time. Old refrigerators look like **** and...

Gentlemen, I tried a Maredsous ale and it was a profound and moving experiance. It was as tasty and rich an ale, as I have ever experianced. I can't recommend it highly enough. And at 10% alcohol it is not thick or in any way, less than a beautiful example I would like to emulate for...