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Bottled and lagered the MB Cowboy Lager last night. With a bit of a head cold, I didnt want to mess up while transferring 5 gallons of brown ale and bottling. My next issue comes to how long I can leave it in the pale before bad things start happening if I dont make time to bottle. Wednesday...

I still have the spring seasonal Mr Beer Lager to work with. Dont have refrigeration for a regular lager, but have learned enough that I can ferment at regular temps and then refrigerate after bottling for a month or two, and I can manage to do that, anyway, so looks like I will be making up...

I've got 3 bottles of a Mr Beer Blond Ale sat aside, and plan to put aside 3 each of the MB Cowboy Lager and the 5 gal English Dark Ale, but might increase the number of each of those to make 12 without waiting on the Dunkel Weitzenbier. We'll see. The Cowboy Lager and the Dark Ale are due for...

Bought a kit for English Brown Ale from the local home brew supply store and started it last week. Hope to start siphoning it in a week to a second pale for priming and then bottle. I got the Dunkel Weizten kit as well and want to start that soon too. So far, so good. Keeping this and the Mr...

Thanks. Among my history magazines, there are often articles on food preparation for certain periods. Even Napoleonic period wargaming magazines have articles on this stuff. So it might be interesting to put something together some day with all the right touches. Now I just need to get some...

I'm new to brewing, but have been a reader of historical novels like Horatio Hornblower and the like for years. Now that I am learning about the different types of beers, I am reminded of the small beer that gets mentioned a lot in many of the books of the age of sail. Is this a style worth...

I was at Fort Monmouth until I retired in '95 and am familiar with that area. Or was. Last time I was visiting my daughter in Seabright, it seemed everything had changed since then. But still a nice area, between the beach and the parks. Tom

Thanks! The Bock may have to wait for winter then. My basement will be nice and cool in a few months and once bottled, I can take over the refrigerator space. Looks like getting one of those small refrigerators is becoming more and more important if I want to make the beers I'm hoping for. I...

I am planning to get the Pumkin Ale kit from the local Brewtensils store shortly to start my first batch with the Ale Pale set I was given. After doing a bit of reading, I keep coming back to a couple of questions that I'd like answers for before I start that batch. First, everything I have...

I certainly got my start with Mr Beer. Drinking batch number 3 right now, the Bavarian Weissbier and have the Czech Pilsner in the bottles ready to go to the refrigerator next weekend. Awaiting an order of a 3-pack to get number 5 going. I was given an Ale Pale set and am reading 2 of...

Thanks. That would be cool. Just stopped in at the Brewtensils store last weekend for a look around and starting to plan a fall batch of Pumpkin Stout. I am still working with my Mr Beer stuff for the moment but was given an Ale Pale kit that I need to learn to use. Picked up some good...

I understand it is a Bock base, but I'm unsure where it goes from there. I'd like to start 5 gal to give as Christmas gifts. It's been 20 years since I was last stationed in Germany, and I'm afraid my memory only tells me how much I loved it, not exactly what it tasted like. Thanks for the...

With a last name like Oxley, I've been called Ox since I was in kindergarten, so when the boss told me I should come up with a name and a label, so while I'm still tinkering with label ideas, I did come up with Old Ox Beer for a family label. We'll see how that goes when I give all my coworkers...

Thanks. I'll watch for that book on my weekly trip to Half Price Books and download the freebie. Picked up one a few weeks ago that I can't recall the name of. They have a pretty good selection there anyway, so knowing what to look for will help. Gives me something outside of the military...

I picked up the book, The Witches Brew, a few years ago. I was considering home brewing but hadnt started yet. Now that I've got a little bit of experience and a lot more reading in, I understand it a lot more and thought others might enjoy it if you can find it nearby or online. Quite a few...

I searched for a Weinachtsbier recipe and found the forum thread about it, so decided to join the party. Tom Oxley

Just found the forum through searching for a Weiniachtsbier recipe. I started out with a Mr Beer kit for Christmas, and with my second batch in the fermenter, I'm already starting to look at bigger and better things. A friend gave me his 5-gallon kit that he said he didnt have time to use, so...