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You never know untill you try. I cleaned everything out of my fridge in sep. I used 9oz. black 6oz roasted and a lot of other grains and all extra hops. turned out to be 1 great beer that I really enjoy. Had 1 tonight after I got home from work. Good luck.

I use a Grain Bag over a funnel. It works to aerate the wort as well as collect a little of the trub.

Question? Since when it foams a lot of your hop shows up in the foam you would not possibly take some of the bitterness out?

Boil about 3 gallon. If you can take 2 gallons of pre-boiled water put in frezer as you start your batch pour this into your fermenter will help you cool down your wort quicker which will get you closer to your yeast pitching temp.

I've only brewed about 6 batches in my keg but don't seem to notice anything. Before I used a stainless 5 gallon pot,

I agree I never leave :) mine together and always wet down before and don't seem to have any problem with my auto siphon.

:cross: My main concern is that I don't get any little buggers . Sanitation I agree sometimes seems a little extreme to do but when you think about your finished product it really is'nt that bad. I would rather spend extra time with sanitation to be sure that my batch of beer is ok. But that is...

I purchased a mead kit that came with oak chips. The instructions for it was to put the chips in a small sauce pan with a half pint water. Heat on stove and steep. Stir to get oak flavor. Longer you steep more flavor. Pour water into primary leaving oak chips behind.

Jan 2004 41 batches to date

Great feeling isn't it. I Boil 1 Gallon of water on my stove while I heat up the water on my cooker outside that way if I need to raise the temp. I already have some ready. If I don't need I either just put in the boiling pot to add haet to my sparge water or I put in fridge just incase I need...

The reason I went to these is just incase I under estimated and should of had a blow off hose I can just slip 1 on with out a lot of problems. Before I purchased one my wife calls me one day at work and wants to know what she should do I had crap every where. I think even she could put on blow...

I agree if you can drink water from a water line why not beer.

My favorite part is the smell of the gains and malt. My wife thinks it stinks my son thinks it smells like cheez-its. Me I think it smells great and that something really good is going to come from it. Just like sour kraut some people think that it smells great others think they are going to puck.

I go to my local hbs and try to buy at least enough grain and other supplies to do at least 2 brews. I spend around $25 which includes my wyeast. Also it is cheaper to buy all grains by the pound so I try to do 2 brews that are closeso that if I only need 4 oz of a grain for 1 and 6 oz for the...

I have one that I purchased from my local hbs. The one I purchased was for a 6 gallon carboy. They also had a differant size for the 5 gallon carboy. If I remember the one that I took off the shelf was the bigger cap was really for the 5 gallon carboy. Mine seems to fit tight.

I wouldn't dump it yet. I brewed a batch believe it might have been my first english ale I also stored it in my basement it was closer to a month before it showed carbonation. I don't stir when I add the priming sugar to bottleing bucket. I let my siphon hose lay on bottom of bucket. Knock on...

I have been lucky that when I do a batch it happens to be trash day. They don't show up till after lunch so I dump them into a trash bag and let them deal with it.

I just drop the pellets in. Did a clone of grants imperial stout bottled last week put agrain bag on bottom of my siphon tube to keep as much of the hops out of going into my bottles. worked great.

In boxes in basement except the few of each batch that i put on a shelf. Don't use basement for anything really but a storage place for all the wonderful items we have purchased over the years that we don't use any more. So not a whole lot of light.

I did 10 gallons of wheat yesterday. I put into 2 fermenters. Did the best I could at making sure they had the same amount from brew pot then added about half gallon of water that I had already boiled to each to get my 5.5 gallons. Both are burping away. It really didn't take any longer to brew...