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I ordered some growlers with screw caps to bottle part of my latest batch of brew. Another member suggested that growlers are not a good idea for bottling and could explode due to being thin walled. Doesn't make much sense to me so I'm just looking for some advice. Has anyone used these 1/2...

I'm going to use 64 oz'ers for the first time to do part of my bottling this time around. I have the metal lids for the jugs and also the plastic lids. How well do these seal, which is the better and how long is the shelf life? :mug:

When I drink draft beers at the bar, it gets me drunk way bad. I've heard other people are like that too. Needless to say I don't drink draft at all. My question is this: does anyone know why draft beer affects some people in this manner and will I be able to keg my own beer without it having...

Thursday night I cooked two batches of beer using Muntons extract and maltodextrin. I cooled it to about 74F, measure the OG (1.047), and pitched my Muntons yeast. By the next morning, both batches were bubbling like there was no tomorrow and then, by the following morning within 36 hours of...

I brew my beer from Brewers Best beer kits. The last two kits I made were German Altbier style. The first batch I made was by the book per their instructions. The beer was great but had a bit of chill haze, so the next batch I made I used Irish Moss in my boil to help with clarification but this...

Hello from Pittsfield Illinois. I've been doing Brewers Best kits for about three years and having learned alot about smoking a pipe on the pipe smokers forum, I thought a home brewers forum would be a great help for me too. A friend at the Club Stogie referred me here. Looking forward to...