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Only suggestion I have (and I am new so take with grain of salt) is that you might want to add in your gelatin alongside your sugars to ensure an even distribution throughout your batch. Also, allow beer bottles to condition for a full two weeks and do not put in too much bottling sugar in...

I've used White Lab's yeasts once. I don't like the delivery system in comparison to Wyeast's, so I have never gone back.

Almost posted yesterday, but I was just too into it all. I smoked yesterday AND brewed for the first time. Unsure if there are any smokers here, but my MIL had a couple of whole tri-tip steaks preseasoned and prepackaged just needing to be grilled. Well, after my BIL didn't do it the day...

Untrue. I do. Lol.

Aaaaand today I got my chest freezer that goes with my after market temperature controller for my fermentation chamber. SUPER stoked!

I think I am almost too new to have any controversial opinions developed, yet, but I have a story of my adherence to a name of a piece of equipment that was decently frowned upon in the former brewing forum I used to post on. Here they are. They were listed on Amazon as what was called "Ball...

Whenever I start growing hops, I am going to name my first plant Amanda. Amanda Bines.

Jelly Bellies

As someone who lives in the California East Bay about 40 minutes away from Santa Rosa, I will be attempting to brew this beer using local water and charcoal filtration to see how the water balances out after some chemical additions (if needed) for ph mash. Am VERY interested in trying this...

Just received my Apera Instruments AI209 PH20 Value Waterproof pocket PH Tester

Welcome back into the pitch :)

Ahhh, the home state of the AHA. Have you been to the convention there, yet?

Worst commercial beer I've ever had was when I was underage in the 80s. It was called "Stag's" something beer. It was terrible

Unsure what your setup is like, but I moved a couple of weeks ago in the middle of a 5 gal brew of California Common. Due to the move, I decided to keg after air lock activity ceased, so about a few days ahead of schedule. I was then able to draw and drink off of the keg before moving. We...

1. When did you start brewing? March 2017 2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 4 batches at 5 gallons a piece 3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0 4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what...

Hey all, my name is Brent A.K.A Incuubus2112. Nice to meet you. I am brought here today by way of a spur-of-the-moment Christmas purchase for myself from the 2016 holiday season. And there it sat for a few months until round about mid-March when I broke out the All in One Extract kit...

When you lose your entire kitchen's capabilities for a move and you couldn't be worried in the slightest because you've not moved your brewery, yet.

I went glass... and bigger lol But this time with STRAPS!

I had this occur on my first batch of California Common on my second ever AG brew. What occurred was that my sparging was jacked up but only after all the sweet wort was pulled. I had to end up completely disassembling my mash lauter tun and reassembling after clearing the obstruction of...

Just want to comment that I, too, have joined this club. Broke a nearly dead on similar 5 gallon glass carboy this weekend preparing to fill it up with wort to ferment over the weekend. Suffice it to say, I had to sanitize my plastic paint bucket in a hurry after I set the glass carboy...