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Are you planning on refermenting in the bottles? If so, then all you have to do is add the correct amount of priming solution and rack into the bottle as usual! Just be sure to scale down the solution quantities appropriately. Oh, and filling bottles out of your keg will give you a chance of...

Nothing to worry about; in fact, this ought to happen! It's called krausen and is basically just a head of yeast due to fermentation. It looks like your krausen is creeping up the neck of your carboy. Some people invest in a blow off tube system that basically swaps out the airlock for a sealed...

Well, I guess that settles the taste problem; I don't mind mixing drinks!

Niko has a good point in that I never inquired about the ingredients involved! Brewing has been more like an art form for me so I have never used a kit before; just created recipes and brewed them! Just make sure to take good, detailed notes from now on so that you can reference possible...

Sounds interesting. I have had problems with high temperature fermentations where my beer turned thin and very hot. Alcohol was quite present, the viscosity was low and the hop flavors or scents were nullified. This sounds a little different but I find that keeping good notes on your brewing...

Thanks for the input! I thought about lactose but it's rather expensive around here; about $5 per pound at the local hombrew shop. I have been thinking that if I were to keep the liquid around 42 F, perhaps could I add simple sugar to the solution without worrying about another fermentation.

So a few months ago I brewed up a delicious wheat beer and decided to toss it onto some fruit. Following the direction of Ray Daniels in "Designing Great Beers," I managed to leave my wheat on 10 lbs of whole strawberries for roughly two months only to discover that my precarbonated brainchild...

According to the book, "Brewing Classic Styles" by Jamil Zainasheff, if you are using extract, you want to use it at bottling to taste. This means that you don't have to add it in the priming solution but put it right into your flat beer. This gives you the chance to mix it in and then taste it...

All of the above recipes look good. Most of the time, a good pale has quite a simple malt bill. With that said, I usually like to add a bit of wheat malt to my pale ales but it gets carried by a handful of American style hops. It looks like you've got the inventory for a more continental or...

First of all, thanks a lot for the helpful input! I will look into the chocolate and coffee additions but for the sake of ambiguity, I did not change them in the recipe. And yes, I will let the beer sit over many months as I expect plenty of quick maturing beers in between! At any rate, here's...

The original idea was to brew an Imperial Oatmeal Coffee Stout but I decided to add chocolate to help transition between the dark roast coffee and malts. Also, as an extract brewer, this will be my first attempt at a partial mash so I am not sure how much 2-Row is actually needed for proper...

I have brewed wheat beers in the past and both times the only extract I used was wheat DME. It should give you that big wheat spice but if you want a hint, I would up the amount of wheat or lower the proportion of the caramel malts because it looks like they will give the wheat a run for its...

That sounds like a decent temperature! Let me know how the beer turns out. After that fiasco I have been curious about what the original product is supposed to be!

Sometimes profound, sometimes random; the names for my beers have roots in many different sources. I listen to a lot of metal music and my brother likes zombie flicks so I was thinking about naming our next brew, a breakfast stout, Corpse Rouser. Better than a Bloody Mary!

The first time my brother brewed a beer on his own it was the fabled A-Z Brown Ale! That brew has enough sugar in it to fuel a rocket ship so it has the potential to really ferment out. Which is what happened to him and the final product was really thin and boozy. So my advice is; I think with...

If it's store bought fruit juice, I'm thinking Ocean Spray, it will probably have a lot of sugar in it and you should expect it to ferment! You also want to be careful because adding too much sugar to your beer can turn it cidery or hot and overly boozy. If you want a cleaner product with...