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Dangerous things can grow in mead. But if they do the mead will taste like it has dangerous things in it.

If you have pasteurized your beer already, then you have taken down your main defense against infection. The yeast beat the bacteria because there are so many yeast. Sanitation is not sterilization. On the other hand you asked your question 2 days ago and you have probably already done it by...

With that amount of airlock activity you could wind up over-carbing it or just making bottle bombs. Every week that goes by will help. I haven't tasted yours but I under-carbed mine compared to how I carbonate beer and it tasted great. You could use 1/2 to 1/3 or the usual bottling sugar and...

Science nazi reporting for duty. Correlation is to show a connection between a two data sets. If you did this a hundred times and got sick 37 times that would be correlation.

Nice to hear. I think I will put some effort into getting tea then. When you say 1 cup strong black tea what does that mean really. Are we talking playground bully kind of strong or Hercules + Chuck Norris kind of strong? If you put a little sugar in that tea how would it compare to a normal cup...

I plan to completely jack your recipe starting tomorrow. A few questions: Could you be more specific on the nutrient and energizer? Amounts, type, and times? What is the black tea for? and what did you use there? Any idea of the FG?

So that is 2 3/4 lb of specialty grain in an extract recipe. That's double what I have ever used before. I realize that some of that "specialty" grain is maris otter which is really just base malt. My concern is that I wont be able to steep this effectively in 3 gallons of water. Do you do full...

I brewed this a while back and left some with my girlfriend. She loves it but called me after one glass of it and she was decidedly tipsy. She was very happy because of the alcohol and very unhappy because she has to get up in the morning and I didn't warn her this stuff is very alcoholic...

@Starman Lazy Magnolia actually makes a version that they age in oak Jack Daniels barrels. It is called Southern Gentleman and it is sublime. The flavors blend perfectly and the bourbon really enhances the pecan notes. The downside is they are rather limited on the availability of Jack Barrels...

Thanks for the advice everyone. To summarize what I just read, the structure of a good heavy keg is indestructible, but the inside can get scratches and dings that will make it unusable. A "reconditioned" keg shouldn't have any of these, but if they cut corners with reconditioning, it might.

So i've been idly shopping for a keg and just kicking thoughts around. I know I want one. I know its a good investment, but which one. I also know I want to have the potential to hook two kegs to one CO2 cylinder. How do you tell a good quality keg from a poor quality one? Kegs seem like...

Thanks for all the great feedback. Keep it coming. Any idea how they view homebrewing?

So I just got off the phone with a recruiter for Anheuser-Busch. I have a second interview on coming up for a job as a "Group Manager." I would be working on the floor managing one of the processes at a brewery in Columbus, Ohio. Although homebrewers are typically indifferent to Budweiser as...

I live in northeast Mississippi and I brew beer. I would like to try a cider just 'cuz. My first big problem is where to get juice. My second problem what recipie to use. I found two apple orchards using google but they are each an hour and a half away. I don't think that is an option but...

Warning TECHNICAL POST AHEAD. I have taken courses on the analysis of heat exchangers and can do these calculations in detail. It is hard to simplify it without being so simple that i am not contributing. You are going to see three big differences as your diameter increases. Fairly...

I followed Darias's recipe pretty closely. I came out with a beautiful beer. Thanks Darias. I tried to follow his suggestion to "hold the ginger at 160 for 20 minutes to pasteurize." However when I put my ginger in the microwave i didn't watch closely enough and it boiled over. Boiling ginger...

So why did it not taste like this the first time I tasted it when it was even younger? Should i have given it another week in the fermentor before bottling?

I brewed a ginger beer 4 weeks ago. The wort had a nice amber color and it went light on the hops. When i moved it from primary to secondary two weeks ago it had some residual sweet flavors with none of the of sour apple taste that young beer typically has. I moved it to bottles and it had that...

There is a glass recycling place near my parents house. I live a couple hours away from them but when I am there I go and raid all of the empty bottles I can get my hands on. My first choice on the bottles are Guinness, Sam Adams and Hoegaarden. The Guinness labels can be cut off. The Sam Adams...

To teach what the other idiots are doing. I'm not gonna claim that there isn't right and wrong in language. Just argue on how right and wrong are defined.