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my brother wants me to make the beer for his wedding. if i make several batches and keg them and carbonate them do they need to be kept cold? or could i carbonate them in my corny kegs and then chill them before the wedding?

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light - amber - dark is it just color or flavor too? and is there more or less sugars in them?

ok we all have seen some form of the wooden barrel beverage dispensers. I would love to do up one of my old cider barrels into a work of art that i could stand in the dinning room and not have to go downstairs to get beer from my ugly fridge with the tap in the door. But I want to be able to...

cool thank you!

ok thanks. i will look it up.

wow just checked back....lol this escalated quickly. To those who helped thank you. GILA.... it took a minute but i got your joke. Packer.......... i'm new to brewing. But not new to internet idiots. i joined a site to learn and ask questions. I do know what a dictionary is. I just looked up...

i am trying to figure out all these new terms.... i have heard lager all my life. But wasnt until i started brewing that i know it had to do with temp. so what is the differnce in some of these terms? ale....stout....ipa ...porter...pilsner....malt....ect??????????????

ya sorry Muntons hopped can kit. it was cheap and a buddy said they taste good. So even at the 20% off i will have 30 bucks just in extract and still need grains and hops. next question. Is a pound of lme the same as a pound of dme? i mean i know one is dry and one is liquid but are they...

new to this so beer with me. i ordered the summer wheat kit from aih. loved it. now trying a mutton can kit. But my local hardware store has all its brew stuff on sale foe 20% off. So a can of lme is about 15 bucks. but the cans are only 3.3 lb? my summer wheat kit had 6 lb of lme in it...

so i just started brewing about a month ago. first batch was great! kegged it and been enjoying it often. then i realized how fast it was going so i decided to do a mutton can kit next as i was told they dont take long and taste ok. so for whatever reason my stove refused to boil 2.5 gallons...

i reread my post and i dont think i explained it right. the beer will be ready to bottle/ keg before i leave for vacation. (2 weeks since brewing). would there be any reason not to keg it, so that it will be carbed by the time i get back? i mean do you have to check it and adjust your pressure...

1. i am in the middle of brewing my first batch of beer. It will be ready to bottle/keg in about a week. the trouble is i am going to be on vaction for the next week. So i have 2 choices. Leave the beer in a carboy until i get back or go to the keg and set my pressure and leave it carbinate for...

so my buddy has a new keg....but used regulator and tank. while leak testing his set up his line and regulator turned frosty and super cold. is this normal? could he have nitrogen instead of co2?

thanks for the replies!

that clears it up...lol guess i have a lot to learn. so if i did extract these tannin, what would the final result be on the beer?

ok so i just did my first batch of beer. it is an AIH summer wheat kit. it says to steep the grains at 150-160 for 20 min. i started at 155 or so and turned down the heat but it climbed to about 170 so i removed from heat and it returned to below 160 but it was probably above 160 for half of the...

new guy from PA. probably have lots of questions.... i have my first batch of beer boiling while i created this account... its a wheat beer kit. i have made hard cider (barrels) apple wine, and stag horn sumac wine. looking to learn and share!:)