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20 here...I think i might be the youngest on HBT :) I have been brewin for a few months now and yall have definately helped out a lot. I look forward to many more years of brewing and ESPECIALLY to that magical June 17th date when i can finally hit the bars :mug:

I forgot about daylight savings today and went to work an hour early....i was PISSED

I wasn't even a tickle in my dad's shorts until '85....haha

Is it OK to use a new women's leg stocking as a grainbag? I plan on brewing today but don't have a muslin bag nor know where to get one so I was thinkin about picking up a pair of stockings at the drug store to use...any thoughts?

Check out simple brew sites especially www.howtobrew.com. From experience, the "hopped" can kits are complete bull shizah. To make a decent beer all you need is liquid malt extract/dry malt extract, hops, specialty steeping grains, and yeast. If you already have a fermenter then just buy the...

Maybe you should re attach the airlock and see what happens. There is no harm in waiting a week to see if the batch is REALLY infected or if there is just a suspicion...it takes a lot to infect a batch

baseball is probably the most boring sport on this planet to watch....i'd rather watch grass grow

I had a "secondary" fermentation in my secondary with my Irish Red Ale that is currently in bottles. Everything tasted OK during the bottlind process. A little extra fermentation in the secondary shouldn't be a problem

I'm the one on the right...without the Old Crow

I've been drinking that variety pack like a champ because its my source of non twist-off bottles. #9 is quite sweet due to the apricot extract...a hit with every beer drinker. I agree that Jinx is a very nice winter brew, probably my favorite. Batch 375 is almost too hoppy, and I'm a hop-head...

how do i put my pic in the thread?

I hear Perle is the main hop in SNPA, which is why I ordered some for my first attempt at my own IPA recipe :)

Possible problems: (diagnosed by a beginner) not enough hops scorched malt (pouring your LME too quickly into the brewpot) poor fermentation (try a starter next time) just my .02....probably just .01 actually

Sounds good, so a ziplock is all I need to keep my DME nice and fresh?

I have to break into my plastic bag of DME tonight to make a starter. I don't have a way to vaccum seal the bag so I was wondering how I should seal the bag back up to keep it fresh until this weekend when I brew. Can I wrap the bag up in aluminum foil and stick it all in the fridge? I want to...

I'm bottling my Irish Red Ale tonight...can't wait for a taste!

P.S. sorry to post in the AG/Partial Mash section, I thought I might have to do a mini-mash but I guess I'll just steep

Ok, the hulls are cracked...I thought it might just look a bit more ground up than this. Can I use a nylon stocking as a grain bag? The kits that I have bought off AHS before have given me a muslin bag so I thought they might include one with individual grain orders but I guess that was just...

So I just got my ingredients to do my first original IPA recipe and I have a slight problem with my grain. I ordered 1lb of Crystal 20L and 8oz of Carapils and asked for the grain to be "milled". Now I thought that meant they would crush the grain for me and ship it in a muslin bag for...

Does unconverted starch mean that I won't get the full "head retention/body adding" effects of the carapils?