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That's probably it... There's no crown for a cap on these bottles. How many hours do I have in the bottling bucket to get things sealed up? Its covered and everything was sanitized, but I don't want my priming sugar to be consumed and all that CO2 vented off and get flat apple wine in a...

not only are their prices a bit high, which I've been willing to pay because it saves me shipping, gets me stuff in hand the day of, and supports the local guys, but when I asked about a grain bulk order, he said "yea, we could take off like, $.20 per pound if you order a whole sack" when the...

I'm about to ruin a batch of cider.:mad: I made a batch of cider and wanted to bottle them as a champagne/sparking cider. stopped at the local store, run by a bunch of home brewers, and if they're selling beer AND wine making equipment, I figure they OUGHT to know what they're doing...

in my opinion, if you ferment for 2 weeks, and then let it sit in a bottle for a few months...you didn't make good beer in 2 weeks. you made good beer in a few months plus 2 weeks. my point was that you cannot ferment for a week, bottle condition for a week, and expect to get good beer, but...

the first batch of beer I ever made, was a Mr Beer kit. what a miserable failure THAT was! I had not read any brewing books. I had not joined the website here yet. I knew nothing about making beer other than "it's easy, and you can do it at home" so, I followed the directions to the...

if you drink from the bottle, there will be sediment that gets shook up and into the beer, so I leave the bottom bit of beer in the bottle. but I've also found that if you open the bottle, and pour it into a glass in one smooth pour without "glugging" the bottle, you can pour the beer out and...

true!! but in all seriousness...I don't want to be that guy where people mutter behind his back "that guy has an alcohol problem...he's drinking a 6-pack a day?!" because, while I don't feel like having 4 or 5 home brews a day is a problem, the first thing that someone says when they DO have...

what steps are you leaving out?! how do you wash and sanitize your bottles/caps, siphon the beer into a bottling bucket, add priming sugar, bottle it all, cap them all, and be done in 10 minutes?! even if you ferment in a bucket that already has a spigot on it and bottle straight out of...

outside of your already broken nutrient bag... I've done 3 or 4 batches now with the smack packs, just whack them, wait till they swell up and start brewing. I've not had any problems with them. that being said, and after reading here about how important starters are...I'm sure...

ah, kegging! as I wash, fill, and cap approximately 50 bottles per batch, I often finding myself wishing I could do everything at once, one clean step, and be done with it, instead of taking 2 hours to siphon, add carbing sugar, washing bottles, filling them, topping them off, capping...

what is it? I dunno exactly...I guess you're "waking up" the proteins, but letting them "Rest" before they work? not entirely sure what exactly the "Rest" means, but a lot of the wheat beers say to give the wheat a protein rest before begining the mash. resting the wheat at 120-125 for...

cool! I'm betting it bubbled up and over because of the CO2 that was "dissolved" in the wort as the yeast are working, it hadn't bubbled out yet, and when you distrubed it with the fresh DME wort, it was enough to get some CO2 to bubble out and foam over. when I did my last batch, I left it...

my LHBS has grain by the pound that's on par with ordering on line, especially when you consider no shipping at the Local store. I haven't asked him yet about bulk orders, but I need to. that'd be awesome if I can get 50 lbs for $33 like I can online!

it worked out well...I mashed, then did a full drain, and added my sparge and did a full drain, then did a 2nd sparge and drained it all into my brew pot.

save the turkey fryer pot for your boil and build a mash tun from a cooler. I built this mash tun for about $20. new 48 quart cooler from walmart, $18. piece of old 3/4" copper pipe--free (had it laying around) brass fitting for a 3/8" rubber hose to a 3/4 NPT thread to fit into the end of...

Yea, probably the same place. I think it was Kabul Military complex or something to that effect. who knows, they kept changing the names of crap to "show progress towards independant operations" like, while I was there, they went from Afghan National Army Air Corp (ANAAC) to Afghan National...

KAIA. at the airport. I was one of the advisors training the Afghans. left in January of '11. but, we drove all over the city, went to the embassy and that whole downtown complex a bunch, several trips out to phoenix, KMC, etc. plus we got to fly around and go out and about with the Afghans...

my first all grain batch was a bit lite too. recipe called for 1.050 gravity, I ended up at about 1.035 after the boil and before pitching yeast. I too, had several mis-steps, and messes as part of my learning process. chalk it up to learning experience. the beer is still aging, goes...

second batch of all grain, first batch with my new home made mash tun. I batch sparged, completely draining the grain, then adding several gallons of fresh hot water and collecting it. I collected 7 gallons of wort, pre-boil volume. My grain bill was 6 lbs pale, 1 lb biscuit, and 3 lbs red...

Hmmm....so that dark layer around my canning pot is a GOOD thing?! I've used it now for some all-grain batches, it's the only pot I have big enough to collect the wort while my sparge water is heating up in the big brew pot on the propane burner. I play musical pots on brew day! heat mash...