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You guys are awesome! My next dilemma. Closest home brew store is 2 hours away. Should I order the ingredients off the internet? If so, what are the top 2-3 suppliers of good quality (fresh) ingredients you would recommend ?

brewcat. I wondered about that. Their beer is really popular and trendy in our area. I think all of them taste "off", too bitter, over hopped, and even their porter has a strong sharp after taste that I was attributing to over hopping. Maybe they have a flaw in their process that is...

mcj999 thanks! I was wondering if I was crazy. IT happens most often with Craft or micro brews. I was reading How to brew by John Palmer and it talks about Fusel Alcohols as a yeast fermentation by product. It is said to have a "sharp" taste. It seems to me that most all micro brews...

You guys are awesome! Thanks for all the replies. I'm in the South so its 93-97 most of the summer and keeping the house down below 75 gets kind of expensive. Dropping it to 70 just to make beer would make the electric company happy but my wife....not so much. :-) I like the idea of the...

Sorry, This is with commercial beers. There is a local microbrewery that is especially bad and it has happened with each of the 5 varieties of theirs I have tried. A lot of people love their beer but its like a spike through my eye when I drink it. I can drink several home brews and not...

This is out of left field but here goes. Keg beer gives me a wicked headache after 1 glass so I have no desire to get into kegging my beer. Anybody have a clue why draft/keg beer gives me a screaming headache when bottled beer of the same kind does not? I was told 1. The cleaning...

As to chilling the wort.... We would use 2 gallons of water in the pot, then put the other 3 in the fridge/freezer. When the wort was finished, transfer to the fermenter, then add the cold water to bring the temp down. Usually got it down into the low 80's-upper 70's and could pitch the yeast...

Hey gang. Been reading the beginner forum and it feels like I stepped into an advanced PHD level class! 20 years ago when I made beer, we got a kit with the plastic bucket fermenter, got a "beer in a box" extract kit or got the ingredients separately from the guy at the home brew store...

Those sound awesome. Need to get my new kit in and get started ! THANK YOU !!!

First time poster with a rookie question. Home brewed back in college years and years ago and want to get back into it so I consider myself a 1st timer. Need some help with rookie recipes. I love true German Wheat beers Like Julies Echter Hefe Schniederweiss dunkel Tucher krystal and...