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wow, reading these posts, some of you have your major brew on.. 10 beers in fermenters! That is awesome. I might be able to pull of 5 or 6 in the next few weeks. This really is going to be the summer of beer!

pbc stout, that sounds very interesting

I just want to see how many of you are out there. When I go into Mr. Steve's it seems busniness is doing pretty well, so there must be quite a few. I know there is a brew club there, but I was wondering if anyone was interested in small brew groups and getting to know eachother. Pretty...

they're both easy going beers, easy drinkers. The AK47 has a lot of corn sugar added to it and is very carbed. I guess I would say the cream ale is the better of the two. The cream ale has an interesting flavor, sorta fruity. I wish NB still had the special yeast for innkeeper kit, that is an...

in bottles I have: a couple growlers of a chocolate cherry stout, bottles of AK47 pale mild, bottles of NB cream ale, AHS cream ale, NB caribou slobber, NB number 8 and my inn keeper is all gone. I also have another AHS cream ale kit that I will brew in 10 days or so. When is National...

I don't know about my basement floor, it might be worse than an army barracks floor.

In the past, the most I ever had going at once was 3. I am getting for the summer of beer! I have 4 beers fermenting right now and plan to brew a fifth on Saturday. German Alt ready to go into a secondary any day. Hefeweizen has another week or so in the primary and then I am going to rack to...

the last time I bottled, I had a couple of pre-bottling beers in me and well, I was pretty relaxed on the homebrew. I bottle in the basement. Our basement is pretty close to a dungeon, so there is no harm down there. I use the drier, it is perfect height and kneel on the floor. Well, I usually...

thanks. good luck with your ESB. I think I am going to stick with the recipe as is after doing some research.

what if you spill half the batch during bottling, do you get credit for the beer spilled?

I too would like to make an ale version of Oktoberfest. Would WL European Ale be a good yeast for this type of endeavor? I didn't brew last summer, so I am not sure what my cellar temps are during the heat of the summer. It is always cooler than anywhere else, but after summers like last summer...

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I bought the AHS Anv ESB kit and I am wondering if the hops additions are adequate. This is my first ever ESB, so I want to nail it and have a classic example of the recipe. Here are the basics of the recipe: grains 1 lb of crystal 90L malt 1/2 lb of Crystal 60L malt - extract 6.5 lbs of...

Was it a brewer's best or true brew kit or an actual Mr Steve's recipe? I know they started boxing Steve's recipes. I go to the York store, haven't been to the Lancaster store. I know some of the staffmembers know more than others. When Steve is in there, I usually try and talk to him and get...

when ever I go into Mr Steve's for somethin small, I feel like I need to buy something else. The other day I went in there and just bought some yeast and felt like, I need to spend lots of money.. but I have two more kits in waiting at home. I don't need anything else... but I must, because I am...

I always pitch my entire starter. Never had a problem.

they have auto siphens and bottle trees at Mr Steve's on Centerville Rd and also on Whiteford Rd in York.

glad you let it ride, be interested to see how this comes out. Did you brew another kit?

I just used some LME for a starter that I bought at the end of December and used for a starter. I kept it in the fridge since I used it in December. Before I used it, I went to the local HB store and asked if it would be ok. They told me to never throw away LME, that it should be fine if kept...

the temp rage is 50-57. how cool do you think you can get your beer? You could go to walmart or target and get a big plastic tub and put the carboy in there and give it an ice bath. you'd have to babysit it a little more to make sure the temp is steady, with in 3 degrees. keep a thermometer in...