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Hmmmm.... I'm thinking that this will turn out ok. It's happily bubbling away. It looks and smells great !!

I'm in Ottawa and I'd be very interested in this. Unfortunately, I'm just getting started and don't have much to offer yet... I've made a decent stout from extract, but that's just about gone. I have a nut brown bottled, but I'm skeptical that it will turn out. I have some Apfelwein that should...

ditto. It sounds like a rather happy ending to a potentially explosive situation.

I'm from Ottawa! Shaun, where do you buy your ingredients? I've tried Defalco's, but they didn't even have the stuff necessary to make Edwort's Haus Pale Ale.

I tried to brew my first AG batch last night with Edwort's Haus Pale Ale. I ended up with almost 20% too much water after cooling. The accident actually happened during cooling. I had the pot sitting on a bed of ice in the sink. The tap was running and filling the sink just beside my pot. The...

Never heard of her, but I don't watch TV. I just googled her, and she looks kinda hot.

I just installed a laundry tub in my basement. It was dead simple because I was also very close to the main drain and had easy access to hot/cold water pipes. I extended my clean out and put a Y on that which gave me an easy drain without having to actually cut a drain pipe. Extending my...

My Apfelwein is bubbling now at 13 days just as vigorously as it was bubbling on day 2. OG was 1065.

Thanks for the clarification!

I'm about to try this recipe for my first AG batch, but I have a question about the hops schedule. I'm not sure what is meant by this: Once I start boiling the wort, can someone please explain to me when I add hops and how long to keep it in the wort before removing it? Thanks.

USPS is also my preference, but unfortunately many vendors will only ship UPS. Oh well.

I can't contribute anything to help you find suppliers in Canada, but I also wanted to say that I hate UPS more than Coors Light. Shipping from the US to Canada via UPS has more than doubled the cost of many items due to their ridiculous brokerage fees. I can't tell you how mad they've made me...

I'm just about to buy a scale for my first AG brew. I'm going to pick this one up tonight after supper. Link To Scale Regular $30, on sale for $10. It will hardly break the bank compared to some of the kick-ass scales I've seen. I'm sure something more accurate like a postal scale would be...

I got some old gear from my Grandfather. One of the items is an old 2 gallon carboy that hasn't been used in 40 years. There is some kind of dirt in there an nothing has worked to get it out. It looks like a tea spoon of maple syrup or something on the side. I've soaked in a strong bleach...

Why would you use oxygen for this? If you are going to start experimenting with using compressed gas to cool, I'd strongly suggest using air instead of oxygen, since oxygen is actually combustible. Air is safer than oxygen. Another advantage is that you'll be hard pressed to find oxygen over...

I've read a few threads about sterilizing bottles in the dishwasher. It sounded like it would be much less effort than the normal soak in sanitizer and rinse. I was going to try the dishwasher last night, but I ran into some issues. Perhaps someone who does this more often can offer...

Here's a nice Canadian beer in a flip top. Beau's All Natural Brewing Company Beaus Brewery isn't too far from my city.

We had a small party here tonight with 8 friends coming over for drinks and food. A couple people asked to try my homebrew. I only had a stout bottled. Surprisingly, people ended up drinking a lot of it. The most common comment was "nice flavour and none of that homebrew after taste". People...

Thanks for the tip Shaun! Cheers!:mug:

I have a slowly growing collection of Grolsch swing tops. I can buy Grolsch at the store for $2 with beer. The only problem is that I'm not a big fan of drinking Grolsch beer. Oh well, it could be much worse I guess ;) I also have some cheap PET pop bottles that I can use whenever I run out of...