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I guess that was my thought......less steps...and nothing would get into a keg.....if venting was an issue, I could just pull the pin a couple times a day......would I need an airlock on the keg???

I'm attempting my first lager. Doing the Brooklyn Lager clone from the Dec 2011 BYO and using my ghetto Son of Fermentation Chiller (another post someday!). Recipe says that when fermentation is close to finishing (thinking 10 days or so) I'll do a d-rest for a couple days, and then lager. My...

Would it hurt anything to go straight from primary into a keg for lagering? I can fit a corny in my refrigerator, not sure about a secondary carboy....

Enjoying a Watermelon Wheat with the wife as I type!....Edit, I just noticed this was a Gluten Free post......sorry......got here through Google Reader.

The 21st amendment is great beer, mine is a similar color, and the watermelon flavor is about the same (get some in the finish but that's about it), the biggest difference is that mine is much more estery and clovey. Probably due to combination of my Bavarian Wheat yeast and fermentation temps.

Ok, I've been sampling my beers now for a week or two. First off, I really can't tell the difference between the ones primed with Dextrose and the 5 22oz bottles I did with a jolly rancher. Second, the watermelon flavor was great when I was bottling, but not that it's carbonated, I really...

Thanks for all the talk on this, my wife and I brewed this on March 19th, bottled a few days ago, can't wait to taste it! I used a MoreBeer American Wheat Kit, and Wyeast 3056 Bavarian Wheat Blend. Fermented at around 68 for two weeks, then racked to 5 cups (or so) of watermelon juice that I...

You think it would be really out of place in an IPA style beer? I guess 1lb of 40 wouldn't be that expensive, just trying to use up what've I had extra for a few months.

Brewing up an IPA tomorrow, recipe calls for 1lb Crystal 40L (steeping grains), but I'm trying to finish off some leftover grains that I have so I'm going to use .25lbs of Crystal 80 and 0.6lb of Crystal 120. Other than obviously being darker, probably outside style guidelines (not worried...

Just saw this in the store. They had a sixer labeled at 9.39!!!!! I took two up to the counter, and it rang up at 18.99 a sixer....told the guy what the sticker said on the shelf, he was just about to adjust my price, when the manager came out and the cashier asked him about it. Needless to...

So do ya'll just clean/sanitize jars and dump your slurry right in?

I'm a teacher too...we had 7" early monday morning and have still not been back to school. With an already planned furlough day on Friday and MLK on Monday, I'm off until Tuesday!!!!!! Gotta love the south!

Really? Reading a lot of the threads on here, people have said they had success with yeast kept for a year! But yeah, something definitely wasn't right!

I had a quart jar with some washed 1098 yeast in it from the beginning of Aug, I was going to use in a yeast starter, but when I opened it it smelled faintly of vinegar and had a weird gray layer on top of the yeast on the bottom. Anyone experienced this? Was I right to just dump it down the...

Thanks for the input! Is campden usually something you can get at your LHBS?

I just got the results back from my first Homebrew competition. I entered three beers (two of which were not my best efforts, but all I had on hand to enter) with scores coming back as 29 (black ipa), 27(pumpkin amber ale), and 20(amber ale) for the three beers. All the judges mentioned...

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Well it's been about 6-7 months now and the beer is quite drinkable. It does have a "hot" or "peppery" finish, but a couple of my friends think this is really interesting and nice. Anyway, I guess another testimonial to just waiting and letting the beer make itself drinkable!

Yeah, I don't know, this is a recipe I got from a Rogue I2PA kit from MoreBeer....

Tried to give it quite awhile in the secondary to flesh out. Bottled it 2 days ago.....we'll see how it turns out....I tasted just a little at the end, and it tasted very "alcoholy" almost smells like nail polish......anyone experienced that before? Recipe: 12lb Ultralight Liquid Extract...