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if youve got it in a closet, four weeks might be too long in the primary - unless the closet is about 67*

To hijacker - the 'bitter' is hop oils clinging to yst cells that are still floating around. The longer they are stared at the longer they float around. Back to topic: I go the two week metod , done on weekends. two weeks after bottling they go into the fridge for twoo weeks 36d and...

Starch conversion cant happen til the starsh has reached gelatinization temp -149- be nice to know how much sugar just falls off the grain during a rinse and what kind of suger

Like David said and was prob under pitched

Why not demystify brewing by using the extract to make a bunch of quarts of sterile wert and make AG right off? My first tun was a round trash can - indoor office - and the very bottom of a five gallon bucket with over two hundred holes in it and a spigot from hardware, had to move the mash...

You wondered what it would tastelike nad I KNEW what it would taste like an initial dry front of tounge followed quickly by a dry leaf ground fine and sprinkled on the back of yr tunge the sides of yr upper throat streams running downhill it would nice to stop the ferm and keep a little sweet

I've had good results in taming water by boiling it for 15 mins the day before the brew. be surprised what you find in the bottom of the kettle Dave Miller calls it treated brewing water then adj the mash with salts ..and relax

Like the 'other hop' the resinous aau is the last thing produced by the plant, first it takes care of growth then flower and finally its protextion. Advise all who grow hops, to compost well with spent grain- grown compost

Grainger catalogue - gotta have contractors lic. Try Grainger online

feeling that .60 to.75 lb of the crystal would be good for 5 gal

Sorry brother - I feel yr pain. No. There is no known solution to yr problem - counting works towards the end, a little

my first truly infected batch just last week and well, blah, blah, blah, beer, beer, beer. I'll whine about that ... To my experience infected beer is very rare and a bummer. If youre useing plastic bucket w' lid, throw em out and go ..don't want to sound like an ad. but I bought two 6gal...

HomebrewHeaven out of Wash St. has real nice hops. My Miami outlet, Hearts Homebrew does not. Both online. Shipping on hops, Miami or Wa is same - online is the way to go - for me.

Fond of canning, I 'put up' about a doz. one cup mason jars with the slurry. One cup is enough for two fives. It's sterile, premixxed - what more do want? could mix a little polyclar in it for the dbl. whammy Too much of the polyclar/bentonite combo will strip the beer of some color and...

Great head retention: Tie

Who was the best cop? - or who killed the most crooks/bystanders/fellow cops/ in- nocents/etc?

I like to pitch alittle of my starter into the wert @75 (when still in the kettle) then rack after the wert reaches max chill or I get bored. The racked beer goes to a high place overnite and in the morning I rack again (without moving the carboy) and pitch again. Clear beer from the start

I'm a carpenter. One of our guys was laying up sheathing with a nail gun. After watching him for a while I asked him if he still had any nails in the mag. He was surprized that there was a mag., he thought the nails came through the hose.

Been on the site all evening, it's putting a dent in my homebrew stocks. I brew double batches AG with both submersion and immersion chilling. Been brewing for 15 plus yrs - or long enough that my heart-rate remains calm throughout the boil/chill (just happened recently) Need some new...

You may never look back! when you siphon place your cane part way down, til some of the pressure is gone - I hang it on the chiller - then in one fell move put it in the bottom of the kettle and DONT touch it again. If it clogs,carefully hold the cane so it doesnt move and qickli lift the...