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Hi All, A buddy of mine swears this is the best beer he's ever had. I'm not familiar with German beers whatsoever. So, upon reading up on Erdinger and Hefeweizen beers, I have discovered there are several varieties of Hefeweizen. Can someone please point me in the right direction to...

So Steve, what color is your wort in the primary fermenter? Pale yellow/amber??? (I HOPE!!!) DY

Not a dumb question at all. I had the same issue last week, and I used Dollar Tree's LA Awesome Oxygen (clone of Oxiclean) and soaked for an hour. The mold floated right out. Did LOTS of rinsing to get the soap residue out. I bake all my bottles at 300 degrees x 1 hour to ensure...

Thanks for your advice, Fellas! Wayne, I see I made a type-o...the hops wasn't added in the mash but rather, it was added to the wort during the boil. Lots of stuff is floating around in the fermenter. It looks like light colored swamp water. At some point, should I transfer this to a...

SWMBO and I brewed our 2nd brew ever last Friday: Wayne's Blue Moon Clone (we bottled our first English Bitter yesterday). We made some mistakes and we're not sure if we should just dump it and start over, or let it ferment to see how it turns out. Here's what we did: 5# Rahr American 2 Row...

Remember in those days, glass was not perfected; even window glass was put together in 12 over 12 (12 small squares of glass in the upper pane over 12 small squares of glass in the lower pane), 8 over 8, or 6 over 6 patterns. 4 over 4 pattern didn't occur until around the Civil War. Wooden...

I'm reading the Brewery Book from 1830. There's several recipes in the book (Devonshire White Ale, and one below which seems like real ginger ale: An American Recipe To Make A Wholesome Cheap Drink, According to a Method used in Philadelphia Take five pounds of molasses, half a pint of...

Hi Ben, I asked this very question earlier in the week, so it's a great question. 1. You can calculate how many cc's of priming solution need to go in each individual bottle (1 cc = 1 teaspoon) and use a large syringe to instill in each bottle (you can buy sterile 30cc or 60cc syringes at...

Uh huh...sure. :D Sounds like me 2 weeks ago before I started my first homebrew (a pale ale from extracts). Now, I'm making a homemade mash tun from a 48Qt cooler I've never used and I ordered grains/yeast/hops last weekend to make Wayne's Blue Moon. :rockin: Your carboy will be fine...

Thanks for all your help! I work at a hospital with patients so I can purchase 30cc or even 60cc sterile syringes for cheap (they can probably be purchased at an area home healthcare store as well). Drawing up the priming sugar solution and injecting "x" cc(s) into each bottle would be a...

Hi Guys, Next Monday, I'll be bottling my first batch of homebrew (extract; 5 gallons). My directions say to take the priming sugar, boil it, cool it down, and then add to the bottling pail/carboy. My question is, won't the priming sugar be more concentrated on the bottom and ultimately...

Ya know, I never thought about milk crates *DUH!!!*. I like the thought of the 6 gallon/24 quart which will hold a case but online they run over $20 - and that doesn't include shipping...Hmmm...

I'm pretty sure; maybe it's an old term as it's what my dad called them years ago. http://www.probrewer.com/resources/distribution/glossary.php http://www.heymabelblacklabel.com/id38.htm http://www.brownsbrewing.com/gallery/show/2 http://www.duffyshanley.com/pride_narragansett.html...

Mother cartons are the actual name for the cardboard case boxes which hold 24 bottles of beer.

Hi All, Do you use mother cartons for your bottled beer? If so, are you aware of a place where I can purchase a few? I'll be bottling my first batch in a couple weeks. Thanks in advance, DY

And this brings up a question some of us newbies have about the timeline... After primary fermentation (3-4 days for Cooper's English Bitter extract), I placed my brew in my secondary fermentor last night. I have a couple questions about the 3-4 weeks: Should I condition for 2 weeks in...

Use the real stuff; if brewing beer is anything like in cooking/baking, the less chemical components in your food/drink, the better it's going to taste.

Hi Yooper, Thank you for sharing your expertise! You're correct about baking: it's usually a 1:1 ratio (for the most part). I now know for beer, a good guestimate is 1.5:1 (1.5 qts water to 1# grain). Now I see how much grain and liquid I'm working with, I understand how using bags may not...

Awesome - a fellow Buckeye to the rescue! Thank you VERY, VERY much for posting your work! After we get this batch bottled in a few weeks, I'm going to try make this for SWMBO. In the mean time: if yours gets carbonated, I know there's a number of us who'd like to know how yours turned...

I don't know if aerating is voodoo or not as I'm brewing my first batch. I didn't see the harm in doing it so I used my old Braun MR400 hand blender (Emeril Lagasse calls it "the boat motor") and it only took a minute or two to work up a heckuva froth. I then pitched my dry yeast into the...