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Cool, good conversation, and I appreciate it. I have some Ice houses that are twist off and I will give a try with blow water* and see how they seal. Ill come back and tell how it went, but I am not certain about it and thought I would throw that out there for the community. * blow water is some...

I have been homebrewing for a while and want to take my beer to the next level. I can make, what i consider decent beer but always feel like i missed something. while it is easy to say relax have a home brew, I appreciate it but want to discuss a couple of things that I have been trying to clear...

I have never atempted growing my own hops. however I live in the herb capital of america which is gahanna ohio. I have been wondering if there is some magic to growing hops or can they be pretty much grown any where? btw Ohio has screwed up weather, where we could have snow one day and summer...

I have always used grolsch style bottles for my bottling needs in the past but recently I have wanted to use a capper because i have a ton of caps. I was wondering though on the bottles i have been told i can use any style that fits your cap but does that also apply for twist off bottles? or do...

I posted this in the electronic section today as well, but I have been reading a bunch about chiller ideas. I want to know if just leaving a mini fridge intact but running the wort through a coil inside the fridge would work or not. Seems to me that I can get the mini fridge to 32 degrees but I...

I have a mini fridge (those little college dorm ones) and it is not big enough for me to do a kegorator so I was thinking about using it as a wort chiller. Idea was to have brass fitting on top run brass tubing coiled in side 20-25' and then run the tubing to the side were I could have a tap or...

I dont know why this is a poll. I just wanted to ask the question and some how adding a poll got selected. I usually use white labs for my yeast and I dont have a specific brew on that I was thinking about adding the scotch to just thought it would be interesting. Do the manufactuers usually...

I wasnt sure were to put this thread so I went with this section because I feel if it is not known then it must be most identifiable here. :) 2 parts actually, was wondering if you can add alcohol to beer sometime or if that would kill all the yeast. (idea was adding scotch to porter) any...

Cool thanks everyone, I just wanted to get some perspective because I have worked in food health before and just get overly concerned with cleanliness sometimes.

I read a lot of stuff in the sanitation/cleaning section and just wanted to throw this out there for everyone in this section. We all know that cleaniness is next to drinking good quality beer. But I usually clean with soap and water, boiled water rinse, then sanitize with star cleaner in hot...

I am making a pretty high grav beer and was wondering if there is any benefit or negative benefit to aerating from the primary to the secondary. I know the transfer its self will have a little bit of air traveling with the beer in the tube but I have a venturi aerator that is suppose to be used...

Im going to leave it alone. Though this does raise a good point for me. I have seen many recipes with late additions etc. I have read extensively on people adding sugar in the fermentation stage but they never say when or how much. any guide lines here? why add the sucrose while in the...

Yeah, I know that I was the same person worried about fermentation before as well but I have never had great success with putting a batch in the fridge and then trying to give it CPR when i got back in town. I would leave it go.

This is one that I can actually speak to as a brewer and caver. First for the beer, I'm with the people before me, somehting like a mead or high grav belgain would be bad a** but as a fan of a lager you nailed the place to do it. A cave (if actual cave 10 ft deep or more) should be 52 degrees...

Username on CP is ChickenHatBeer, posted up my 5 and kicked off some good conversation in Ohio!

I made a recipe that I was following from a freind but I wasnt getting the same OG measurements. I know I was in spec on times and tempature but I was a little low...( or he was wrong) either way I was contimplating adding some kick to it now but I am 5 days into the fermentation process. Should...

I made a recipe that I was following from a freind but I wasnt getting the same OG measurements. I know I was in spec on times and tempature but I was a little low...( or he was wrong) either way I was contimplating adding some kick to it now but I am 5 days into the fermentation process. Should...

It went finally, seemed to go strong for a while there too. I moved it to a place in the house that always stays above 70 degrees seemed to help it get going.

Hello, I looked through the threads and couldn't find anything just right for my question. I just made a batch last night, i've been doing this for a period of time but still novice. everything is always clean and sterilized, I have not used liquid yeast before it was from white labs and they...