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we use a wort chiller so its already cooled when we pour it in the carboy! and well its fermenting today.. so thats a good sign!!

well tried some mead from Whole Foods tonight.. let me just say it tasted like grape wine.. im truly hoping that maybe it was just some nasty mead.. please tell me it doesnt taste like that.. what i bought was .. The Royal Table's Own Sweet Mead by Desi's Dew LLC in Rougemont, NC was...

That's just too funny.... its hard to get her lips off the end of a Bud Lite, but she is getting better....

welcome aboard to another fellow carolina brewer! we (that is the brew team im part of ..) enjoy the board and have definately gotten lots of good information from it.. GRABASS lunch sounds good.. im off on fridays now.. and beerluvngrl has some beer bottled.. :) mine of course is kegged!

More activity today. About 18 bubbles a minute. The stuff on the top has seperated and is now more like the head on a beer (kinda like foam)... i know this is going to take a long time to ferment and clear.. we are thinking about 2-3 months for fermenation and about 6-8 mos to clear and...

ok here are some pics...its been almost 24 hours.. we are seeing little to no activity in the fermentor lock...we aerated the must really good when we poured in the carboy before pitching the yeast.. any advice on if this is normal.. should we be seeing more activity? also being pretty new to...

today we finally got around to tasting some of your beer as well Walker.. we tried the Espresso Stout.. (now keep in mind we are NOT huge stout drinkers) Definately could smell the wonderful coffee in it.. and it had a very dark color.. little to no head retention at all.. now i gotta...

well as we are late as well .. we finally got around to tasting some of your beer. we tried the honey pale ale as beerluvngrl likes that kinda beer :) both of us thought the aroma was really good..smelled great both in the bottle and in the glass. not alot of head retention and sadly to...

Well today we finally kicked off our first mead...when i got back into brewing, mead was definately one of the things i wanted to make.. we made a traditional mead...now its a matter of wait and see...pretty much followed the recipe out of the homebrew "bible" for a traditional mead.. 15...

Looks like Im doing a Mead Sunday morning. First one, Ive got a lot of reading to do!

Were still here, just on vacation in memphis. looks like we may have scored a keg for a brew pot. only problem .. how do we get it home? looks like beerluvngrl may have to walk! :) last sunday we tasted dude's beer.. it was really good..we decided to break into the honey pale ale.. we...

well we are traveling and are in memphis tn and wanted to go check out another brew store.. anyone know of anyone near or around this area? we figured since we were out in a bigger city we thought we would check out a bigger place in a bigger city.. we love our brew store but its smaller...

ok the beer has been at 40 deg. all week

thanks for the link ill definately have to make sure i have enough tubing

thanks that helps out, i have about 4 ft of line now.

Ok last Sunday we kegged 5 gal and and forced carbonation at 30 psi. We did agitate the keg untill it would hold no more co2. Then we let the pressure out of the head space and then put back on the co2 at 10 psi. We did this twice but still low carbonation. Well it has been at 10 psi all week...

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yea its ok but a little flat . im going to let it set for a couple days in the keg. also chill haze:(

nothing like drinking on a cool dreary sunday afternoon!!

gotta love some fine brew.. we are definately enjoying the fruits of our labor.. its a little flat needs a little more carbonation but this light ale will definately due the trick...gotta love the 7% alcohol level!