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sounds good. I wanted to culture my regular yeast anyway. If i used petri dishes, can i use a whitelab yeast and just not scape where the initial sample was placed? That way i can have all of the variaties available and just have test tubes ready for starters? My buddy said he'd buy the pressure...

I was checking out mcmasters website looking for things i need to build and saw the bronze mufflers and thought that might make a sweet cheap aerator. Is the bronze going to leach anything into my beer? i know most valve housings are bronze but its not havis pure o2 being pushed through under...

Yeah I'm not as worried about glutten contamination as making a delicious beverage for him to enjoy. On another thread i heard people talking about washing yeast. I strictly use liquid yeast because I have always gotten great fermentations from them. Does anyone have a lnk to a thread on how to...

Howdy all, I have a friend with celiac and ran accross a GF extract kit at homebrewers.com. Has anyone tried it? I told him if he bought it, I'd brew it. I get from him that celiac afflicted people learn to eat crappy GF food or go with out and based on that I'm not expecting a fantastic...

That sounds more managable. like i said, its my first brew and i'm anxious to taste. maybe once i have a couple of kegs on tap i'll be more inclined to let it carb up all natural. And i think i'll throw the hops in. I'm with you on a hoppie red. How do i figure the correct amout of priming sugar...

I just put my first brew in to ferment last night. its a red with peat smoked barley in with the grains(partial mash). I have .5 and oz of the styrian goldings left from the finishing. Would it be good to put it in cheese cloth and put it in the keg when its kegging time or would that be over...

So last night I brewed up my first batch. Its a partial mash and it was as exciting as it was scary. I had a fairly big boil over and made a pretty good mess on the stove. My pot turned out to be too small and my wife had to run to wally world and buy a big pot for me. I had made my own wort...

i figured it would be ok. don't wanna waste perfectly good hops if i don't have too

hey all, The recipe calls for 2.75 oz. of hallertau and i had to buy 3 oz. will it be ok to throw it all in or would that not be advised?

i have a dark cool closet that doesn't get used for anything. It is now my fermentation chamber complete with a cat proof door! little jerk gets into everything not locked!

Oh and I'm going to make an irish red, in case that makes a difference

Ok that makes good sense. Is irish moss handy in extract brewing or is it more for all grain beer? Got a lot of friend that are expecting this to end poorly and i want to prove them very wrong. Hoping for good clean looking beer

Hello all, I'm going to brew up my first ever extract brew this weekend. In doing my home work I noticed some people have issues with extracts not converting completly to fermentable sugars resulting in final gravities being a bit high. Is there a way to assist the enzymes in their work? I...