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Welcome! I have also found a lot of information on this board that has been good and bad. Good in the form of valuable information, bad as it has fueled my hobby to the degree of buying more and more equipment and dreaming up more and more elaborate ways to transform my house into a brewhut...

Nice find! Now what time is your house empty so I can errrr check on things for you. :D

I have also noticed that when mine gets around 350 / 400 PSI mark it is close to being empty. It seems to drop fast at first hoover around 700 / 800 for some time then drop to 350 /400 before running out. I need a better gauge.. :(

Well I figured I would share my first rootbeer horror story and strike it up to a lessons learned. The wife and I thought it would be fun for the kids to make some rootbeer so we bought a Homebrew rootbeer extract, grabbed some sugar, yeast, and a some 2 liter bottles. At the time we decided...

Plot thickens... It appears I may have had a batch of bad caps if that is possible. I placed the other case of Oatmeal Stout in the fridge which has been sitting in 72 degree room temp for carbonation and the three bottles I tried were completely flat. In hopes to save the beer I did the...

Great advice so far all I can offer is my own opinion, I started on bottles for about the first 3 brews. Since these brews were back to back we had 144 bottles in various stages. Everything was great.. Until, the cleaning, sterilizing, storing, <rinse and repeat> game was in full effect...

I tend to be on the 1 - 3 pints weekdays and a slight to drastic increase on the weekends. My SWMBO likes to drink with me so I guess you can say I never need to make born-on dates for me beers. :) Although the ongoing joke around my house is a 3 beer limit, you can drink as many as you wish...

Is it bad I tend to brew almost every weekend? Blahh what am I saying of course not.. Light Brown Ale is up for this weekend :tank:

14457 + 5 = 14462 I have started my first batch of this, now it is the long waiting game.. :D

Another fellow Indy brewer! Great post BTW.. :mug:

Just to be on the safe side if you are indeed making too much brew feel free to ship some my way. ;) Better safe then sorry I guess... LOL

I first brew had to be my worst by far, it was a Brewers Best IPA and used original ingredients and instructions. Way too bitter and not a hop bitter I may add.. :drunk: I still managed to pawn most off on my neighbors until they tasted my other brews then the IPA stayed on the shelves until...

I admit that it does look a little scary, but as "Walker-san" mentioned time does wonders with beer. Good luck and keep us posted if possible..

This forum is great, I never thought of this... <Adding this to my bag of tricks> Good Luck on the beer and if possible let me know how it works. ;)

I have done this one with decent results, hope it helps.. Name: Oatmeal Stout Yield: 5 Gallons 5.0 lbs Unhopped Light Dry Malt Extract 1.0 lbs Flaked Oats .75 lbs Munich Malt (Crushed) .75 lbs Chocolate Malt (Crushed) .75 lbs Roasted Barley (Crushed) .25 lbs Crystal 60L Malt...

My first bottling day I sort of went over the edge with the cleaning. I cleaned each bottle with a cleaning agent and a bottle brush, rinsed, placed into the dishwasher for the high heat cycle, then dipped them into a no-rinse sanitizer. After that batch every bottling process there after...

Well the wife and I decided to bottle our Oatmeal Stout so we can save the kegs for other brews. I used the same process I have used in the past but ended up with strange results. I used a bottling bucket and mixed in 5oz of priming sugar after stirring in the sugar we bottles 2 cases of brew...

Very interesting sounds like my speed. Do I carbonate it like a beer or drink as is? Have you tried both methods by chance? Thanks..

This is my first season for brewing myself and I have officially caught the brew-bug! I now have done around 7 brews and about to start two more. I started off with a basic kit and quickly moved to a 3 keg system and looking into laagering and all grain. Beware the bug as it has strong...

Indianapolis near 67 and Mann Road... Small world huh... :mug: I think I may have found a use for my better bottle that has been empty for some time.... I think I am going to try Ed's Apfelwein, I figure after 500 replies it has to be good!