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Hey everyone, So I have been on the board a lot and posting in the beginners section. I figured I would say hi. I am getting ready to start my fourth brew. I am still learning and not ready to graduate from Extract brewing but maybe one day I will. hahaha. Thanks for all the help so far and...

Ok this is my favorite beer. I am not joking I bring 4 or 5 cases back to VA with me every time I go home. I am from about 20 minutes away from the brewery. If someone that has had it, and tried the recipe I would love a heads up.

lol. I am at work and it is really really slow right now. So yes I have spare time. I guess I should drive home and lock myself in the closest with my beer :)

Um I am lucky I remember it is in the closest. I have to check my binder just to remind me when to check my gravity. You all have to much time on your hands.

That is a solid setup. I just started a month ago and I got mine from my LHBS. The only thing I didn't get is the wort chiller which I am looking to buy. My primary is a 5.5 gal bucket and secondary is a 5 gal glass carboy. The only thing I would suggest is to buy StarSan sanitizer. It is very...

When I am home in Indiana visiting, I love to go to 3 Floyd's Brewpub. It is a great little place, excellent beer and awesome bbq pulled pork. When I am sitting here in VA I have a couple places I like to go for beer. Mostly the Birch and Cogan's Pizza. Both places have a huge selection of craft...

I figure this way. I like to drink craft beer. It is not uncommon for me to go out and spend $100 on beer and maybe get 15-20 different bottles, that is on a good day. Sometimes it might only be $10. Now if you are use to drinking a case of race car beer you are going to be spending more brewing...

Relax, I thought the same thing making an Amber Ale. I just let it go. Let it go the rest of the week in the primary taking your readings making sure they are the same. Then rack it to the secondary for a week, then bottle it for two weeks. It will probably condition well.

That is what the recipe had listed for FG. I am not sure about why it is so high, what is your OG suppose to be. I also had the recipe switched over to a DME to make it a little easier for a beginner. The lactose powder was added at the same time as the malt in this recipe. What we tried...

Hit me up in a couple weeks, I don't want to give you a bad recipe. I want to try it first out of the bottle.

Horned Brewing, Pitchfork Brewing, Boiling Pit Brewing????

I went with Nautical Brewing because I am in the navy and living in Virginia Beach. For you, I would go with something like Hell's Bells, Deviant Brewing. If you do a stout, Sinfully Dark Stout.

nice job man. I have been doing this for a month. I have bottled two batches and have a third ready to move to the secondary. My Amber Ale (Fat Tire Clone) was a big hit. I had 10 people try it and they all LOVED it!!!!. I had no clue on my first batch, took me 4 1/2 hours to get done brewing...

Ok so my milk stout batch was just bottled last night. The suggested OG was 1.064 mine was 1.058 but that was taken with the wort at 80 F. So with the adjustment for tempature difference I am at 1.060. FG was suppose to be 1.024 and I ended up at 1.022. Last night I bottled it, I tasted at the...

How long it can sit depends on the beer, your belgium is fine but others will not benefit from picking up the taste of yeast. Good luck man.

I just went through this, I thought it was strange that day two when I checked it looked like it was broken back down completely. OH well it is now in the secondary so I will see in a couple weeks.

I take my reading in my primary at day 5,6,7. Then on in my secondary I start at the 6 day mark. If your recipe doesn't tell you what your FG should be then go ahead and look around online you can find a chart with the average listed for all types of styles. You will find a lot of different...

Ok so I followed the directions and added the priming sugar to a boil until it dissolved. Today was my day to try my first batch, my first four bottles I pulled out but they were flat. What went wrong. These four also happened to be the last four bottled. I opened a fifth one that was from the...

How so you adjust for the temperature when taking a reading?

I did a partial boil. It was all liquid extract, but I took the reading as soon as I added the water.