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Gentlemen, 'I can't wait to brew', or can I?... To brew or not to brew? { Brewers indesision...} {???...???} Last year, my ale was good till june, {ale which had been bottled in May} then began to fall off in quality. Three batches, one was...

Gentlemen, The owner of 'Homebrew Headquarters' in north Dallas, old 'Kelly', said: Once the ale is bottled, 'room temperature' is fine. Now I imagine there are folks here in Texas, who don't have air conditioned houses, I used-to-didn't myself. People didn't live in Texas before...

Gentlemen, For 'Ale', 1 week in the primary, and 1 week in the secondary. A week being 7 days. I have used this measure for 15 years and it has served me well. I own a hydrometer but never use it any more. Just a week in the old #1, and a week in the old #2. Then bottle the...

Suds, Howdy, Thanks for asking. 8 Lbs of DME, if my memory serves me correctly, {but it seldom does} is 6 3/4% alcohol. 7 1/2 Lbs is nice 8 1/2 is too. 7 Lbs is a little light weight, whereas 9 is a little too strong. So along in there somewheres. 7 1/2, 8 1/2, Lbs per...

Vermiscous, Thank you. And Vermiscous sounds 'Latin', or 'Keltic', what does it mean? I heard about a Keltic chief named Versingetorex {sp} Bad ass dude, they whipped the entire Roman army way back. Right outside of Rome! The Romans were whipped and sent emmisarys to try and barter for...

DNscih, or whatever... Great idea! a layer of rum over the LME in 'the bucket' for when in the storage mode. I use DME now for that very reason. But I miss the empty LME buckets because they make good poulty watering buckets when cut down right. You know, where they stick their heads...

Gentlemen, Dude! Dibby down in Tasmania, and all y'all, It now is August 9, and store bought beer and ale ain't bad, better than no beer or ale at all, but I am thinking, ..........'Homebrew'........... I called old Kelly at the 'Homebrew headquarters up in north Dallas, and...

Gentlemen, I brewed for years using a reracking hose for a blow off hose. Till one day 'Kelly' , the owner at: 'Homebrew Headquarters' on Coit- Dallas, told me Knife, THIS! is a blow off hose, showing me the hose with the diameter of the carbouy neck. Now I use a correct size blow...

Gentlemen I drank my last homebrew, of the 'Nov-May', brewing season, July 28th. I drank it and it was gone! I had 517 homebrews and except for the one that I forgot to add the priming sugar, they were the best I have ever done. {That one was good too, just not carbonated} 517...

Gentlemen, Interesting in that the carb thing was touched upon in relation to the red malt thing. Hmmmm I was just thinking that I don't really like carbination other than enough to, you know, 3/4 cup max. I like beer-ale, but don't like store bought beer because it is...

IndyPAdude, Howdy from down here in Texas. If I understand you correctly, a week in the bottle ain't enough time to expect to hear much of a pissss when one is opened. Nor to carbinate worth nuthin. I give mine a month in the bottle. You can do that unless you are out of beer-ale. Just...

Gentlemen, As my homebrew hoard disapears from the 'former pantry brewery', as the work of many nights alone brewing and bottling, getting 'Hammered' and listening to beautiful music, 'Sandymay' and I, as I attempted to achieve 1,000 bottles of beer 'on the wall' so to speak, as the last...

Mornin Y'all, 4:00 am and I just woke up for no reason. {It is terrible gettin old.} Wide awake! So I got up, and so as not to disturb my Coonhound 'Sandymae', who was sleeping soundly in a pile in the middle of the bed, I headed in here to my computer. Opened me a homebrew and started...

Gentlemen, This will be a rambling {3:45am} discourse on how the art of brewing is learned step by step, we learn and we evolve and it is cool. I have been brewing since 1990 or 91, {hold on I need to go 'get me' another} {eine Acht Pfund Hammerbier!} ... Alright, now hold...

Badnaam, I was reading the posts from the bottom up. So it is already bottled! Congrats! Use a hop bag to keep crap out of your bottling bucket. And give the left over crap to your horse or your hogs. Or just throw it out the back door. Luck J. Winters Knife

badnaam, If your secondary is as full as mine are when I bottle... then you are about 10 bottles short. Go get a 12 pack, drink it, and you'll have enough bottle's. And Sam Adams is great beer but the bottles have a label which I find impossible to remove, I won't even try...

An interesting question, According to my records I brewed near 300 gallons of ale 2007. Dern, thats a lot of ale. "Originally Posted by Chimone no man, you guessed around 199 remember"? because going over 200 breaks some law...... Oh yeah, no I didn't, it was only 200. I am...

One scaler guy, What is a swmbo? And congrats! 650 + is a real beer hoard! It takes me basically all day 7-8 hours to bottle a batch. But my techniques are improving. It gets better and better, and next year I will start earlier. Dec. & Jan. is coon hunting season. Afterwards, I have my fur...

Gentlemen, The weather is getting hot and I have officially stopped brewing for the summer. There are two primarys being reracked tonight. And one secondary which will probably be bottled tomorrow. Hmmmm, 375 full, clean, 'former Bavarian beer' bottles, {with 'Grolsch' caps} {A...

Gentlemen, It was here on the forum a few weeks ago, I first heard, I think it was old 'CBBarons,' description of chlorimine. I asked the 'Rockett water supply', I did, I called them up! Whether they used clorine or chloramine... the chick came back and confirmed they used clorimine...