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hehe, you cant get good head. and i have the sense of humor of a 14 year old. but you still cant get head.. :ban:

dont exactly have pros or cons to each. corn sugar is 100% fermentable though, while cane sugar is not. cane sugar (table sugar, right?) might be like 95% fermentable, which might leave a slight sweetness, but probably nothing you can taste... i just am a huge fan of the IIPA style, and most...

not a big deal, you are barely 10 points higher on the gravity than you expected. just do what you were going to do if it was lower. personally, i almost always primary for 3 weeks, then secondary for one week. bottle conditioning- 3 weeks for tasty and 5-6 for really good. its not...

yeah not really a big deal. next time, try the exact same recipe that the kit came with. but instead of crystal 20, use crystal 40L, and then see if the color is better or darker for you.

Dont use cane sugar. Use corn sugar, dextrose. typically about 1#

also- if you dont have Beersmith Bookmark this link http://www.tastybrew.com/calculators/recipe.html free, online recipe calculator..

Your hydrometer read way to high! Thats more than double what the recipe says it should be. You just made a beer that will be like 12% abv! What was the temp of the wort when you took the hydrometer reading? What is the boil volume and final volume of the wort? The size of the starter...

Remember the recipe in Charlie's book where you add an entire chicken carcass to the brew pot?! You'll be fine! :rockin:

As far as I undertand it, a pound of corn sugar is a normal addition to the IIPA style. Try that next brew day, will dry the beer out slightly and possibly help the yeast stay awake longer too. :rockin:

I have a good friend in Manhattan KS named Jake B.

10 gallons Left Hand Milk Stout Clone modified to my taste. AG rocks. Just wait til you get tired of the 10g cooler and upgrade to 18g (72qt) coleman xtreme so you can do huuuuuuge beers. Enjoy! :rockin:

Nice work! I woke up one sunday morning and saw an email confirming purchase of 2 secondary regs for my kegerator... They are now installed and they are awesome, but my bank account wasnt very happy about that... I just bottled my first batch of apfelwein. It was in primary for 6 months 2...

7 pounds! chinook, colombus, centennial, magnum, amarillo, cascade and fuggle.

you hit the target gravity, but then you added water. you thinned out the wort. you added water and diluted it, that why your gravity went down. it will still be a good beer, but you prob should have just stuck with the 5 gallons at .077. you lowered the ABV by adding water. the batch size...

you dont at all need the 3 tier system. 1 10 gallon converted cooler MLT 1 30qt (7.5 gallon) Brew Pot 1 Immersion Chiller (you dont even 'really' need this if you can fit the brew pot in a sink full of ice water) 2-3 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot for strike and sparge water and to...

i use one when necesary... like this

plus after i read your thread closer, you are making cider and i am making beer... i just got a little excited and didnt read it close enough. but per my scale a quart is about 3#s when making the beer, i am gonna throw in the syrup. 12# or 1 gallon. I am just gonna sparge with a little...

I am making an attempt at a maple stout tomorrow. Charlie's book says 1 GALLON syrup per 5 gallons of beer. 1 FREAKIN GALLON! I actually went to whole foods and bought 4 32 oz bottles of grade B Organic Maple Syrup made by Whole Foods for freakin $18.99 each! Beersmith says OG 1.137 and...

30psi from primary reg, 12psi from first secondary reg on the left to 4 way manifold, 8psi from second secondary reg on the right to the stout tap, then the 30psi out the right side of the stout reg for force carbing. pretty nice set up..