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I give some to my chickens, some to my compost bins, and this last brew I donated the rest to a buddy who is raising a few pigs.

I brewed this sunday afternoon and pitched my starter around 830 that night. My og was 1.051. A bit higher than anticipated but thats fine. Today i took a gravity reading of 1.014! Ive kept the temperature between 67-72. It only got up to 72 for about 3 hours before i got it down. I'm thinking...

Just finished my starter for this beer. I'm brewing tomorrow after noon and I'm doing 6 lbs LME and .5 lb DME with white labs American ale. I'll post results when it's ready.

I still dont understand the problem with the soot

I like the look of a "used" kettle. It gives it character

Does the soot hurt the kettle?

Wow with comes that mature you might be able to harvest twice on some plants. Super cool

So I finally went to the Homebrew store and picked up what I needed. I got 6 lbs Light LME and 3Lbs light DME. So I'll do two pounds of the dme instead of all LME like you guys suggested. My homebrew shop is out of Simcoe hops and will be for at least 6 months so i substituted that with...

I wasn't planning on using any DME only LME

Nice! This should be my last extract before I purchase my all-grain equipment. I'm going to try to convert an igloo cooler myself. We'll see how it goes!

I am going to brew 65-65-65-6.5 India Pale Ale from Charlie Papazian's Microbrewed Adventures. The recipe calls for 8.25lbs of light malt extract syrup. All I've been able to find at morebeer.com is ultralight malt extract and pale malt extract. I'm a fairly new brewer (this is my fourth batch)...

Just got my trellis up. There is only about 10 of growth space but I have a gazebo behind it that I can string some twine from if I reaches the top.

Again sorry but if you split everything I'm interested in the cooler mash tun and the carboy.

here are my hops. I planted a willamette but I think it was too dry when I got it. The fuggle is the only potted hop and it's doing the best. Going in I would have thought the opposite. Centennial is going good but my cascade is sluggish. I think partially because it's getting the least among of...

Make sure you blew the bag inside the smack pack. I've hit it freakin hard, had some swelling only to open the yeast to find the nutrient pack full.

I'm interested in both recipes also I you guys could post them in this thread or pm me.

Do a combo of all: sluggo, beer in pie tin, salt border, egg shells around the hops. I'm an avid gardener and have grown to hate snails with a passion. Also not sure where you live but buy a chicken and let her roam, they love to eat snails.

I just brewed my second beer which was Northern Brewer's Nut Brown ale. Brewed yesterday and fermentation is on it's way. I read somewhere that someone primed with molasses. It sounds like it'd go well with this brew maybe add some flavor and mouth feel. Anyone have any experience priming with...

I too compost my grains however about once a week I'll mix some used coffee grains into my garden soil. Not too much. I was told it would boost nitrogen and also repel snails and a few other pests.

It's a coyote. I caught it this morning and shot it with my pellet gun. Dug up my willamette again. If I see him again we'll she how he likes a nice, sweet bowl of anit-freeze