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I just kegged a batch last night too but am carbonating it the old-fashioned way.

That is fairly selfish of them that they wont even allow you to make your own homebrew. I mean that is just denying you your rights

It is definately common knowledge that hops has antiseptic properties , some have even said it has medicinial properties. However, I dont know if there is any scientific data to that can prove these claims either way. It certainly IS possible to spoil a batch of beer though, but it has never...

But in the other thread, posters are oxygenating their wort deliberately using O2 cylinders. Are you saying that the plastic is porous or that air can creep in through the lid of the container? Because O2 and H2O are molecularly around the same size so if the plastic was porous then wouldnt that...

Is candi sugar even worth paying the extra? As far as I can decipher brown sugar would work just as well. What is the advantage in using candi sugar?

I am planning to do another batch in a few days since my keg is almost empty and I have another beer that is now in secondary. This is the recipe I have calculated on Promash. It is a English Mild Brown (5 gall) 3kg Pale Ale Malt 250g Crystal medium roast 125g Black Patent 2oz Goldings...

I dont understand why you cant buy a Growler or some such device and just tap your beer of from the keg and then refrigerate it in advance. http://www.northernbrewer.com/bottling.html

Hey Steve thanks for the link. I would gladly try some of those recipes. The only problem is I dont trust my local homebrew shop will stock all of the speciality malts.

There are various ways you can play with the chemistry of your water if it is required. Firstly, you should cook up a few batches and see if you are getting quality beer before you commit yourself to changing anything. When I stayed at a hotel in Ibiza one year the water tasted like it had been...

I understand that it is possible to leave the beer fermenting on the yeast for about a month or so before it needs racking. So in this sense a carboy is not exactly an imperative piece of brew-ware however it does look like it is quite popular amongst alot of the people who are dedicated to this...

Well I was using my immersion wort chiller just the other day and it is not at all as though it requires a lot of water. Relatively speaking having the cold water tap running for 10 minutes is not alot for a 5 gallon batch of beer. Here is a picture of the one I own...

My friend made a bad batch one time when he used a old piece of garden hosing a siphon. What you have described sounds very bad error. No yeast activity in two weeks! There must be something wrong with the smack pack. You should pour it down the sink and write a letter of complaint to the yeast...

Hmm, I quite like the idea of IPA's. It is very satisfying for the brewer to smell the hops in the bucket but I have found that add it too early in the boil and the batch tastes vile.

This looks like an extremely good recipe but is a little bit more complicated than I can understand at the moment. I notice you wack close to 4oz hops in your brews but here it seems to be more toward the end of the boil. Do you think that finishing/aroma hops is an important part of beer...

I've never made that error. I usally pitch my yeast at lukewarm temperature and this has never failed me. However if I pitched my yeast at 180F then yeah, i'd feel like i doofed up. No offense buddy, you just gotta take the rough with the smooth. The batch should still be drinkable.

Ok, thanks for the information. I had always suspected that this was the case, but I needed information from folks who have actually used it because I was under the impression that having a false bottom might mean having to sabbotage a 5 gallon plastic fermenter. You are right about the mash-bag...

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Well I was heating my wort with the grains in a grain bag. In the grains the heat was ~62C whereas the water running around the edge by the heating element went up to 80C by the time I noticed. I think it will turn out 'ok' but I was rather ****ted off by the whole thing (xcuse language). My...

Hmm the guy on this link tends to do things very similar to myself: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jim.dunleavy/recipe.htm I think if I had of seen this previously i could have helped prevent my errors from occuring. Unfortunately harsh learning experiences are what happens when you go...

So this is a brew day I was looking forward to. My 3rd ever AG attempt. I had calculated the US-UK ale on Promash according to my in-house feedstocks. 8.25 LB Pale Ale Grain 250g Crystal Grain 270g Flaked Maize The problem was during the mash my thermometer reading was all over the...