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Thanks Revvy! This makes me feel a little better. I used brewvint powdered sanitizer. Everything was brand new except the bottles, which were just old ones. I ran all of them through the dishwasher and dropped each in a 5 gal bucket of brewvint and water for at least 30 secs.

About a week and a half ago i bottled my first batch of beer. the recipe was an IPA extract beer with a mini-mash. Everything tasted fine when i was bottling and i have tried a bottle daily since just to get an idea about how beer ages. Suddenly in the last 2 days i have started tasting this...

Hi Everyone I just brewed my first 5 gallon all grain batch. My mash came out with a sg of 1.044. The sg was supposed to be 1.070. It looks like i had less than a 50% mash efficiency. I mashed at 151 dF for 60 min, i was able to hold on that temp almost perfectly. At the end i fly sparged with...

I wonder if anyone other than you or i got that :-) Anyway my starter is was an extract not a minimash. I used Austin Homebrew's Munich liquid malt extract to do the job. I think it is a mix of munic and pale malts. The starter ended up being a like 1.045 og, i was going for 1.040. After 24...

The munich starter is a liquid extract. I didn't have any dme. Will that hurt anything?

Hi everyone I am new to home brewing. This is my second batch and my first all grain batch. About a year ago i was in Chicago and a bar i was at had Legunitas Imperial Red. This was one of the best beers i have ever tasted, so i am trying to remake something like it with my available supplies...