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i have kegged a few batches of beer and always just set my regulator a little high for a few days then backed it down to pour pressure and been pretty lucky. i am doing 4 kegs for my brothers wedding and can only fit 2 in my fridge at a time. so i looked up a chart and it tells temp , volume...

ok so my brother asked me to make the beer for his wedding. He will also be buying a half of something but i have in the making 20 gallons of home brew. 2 kinds, 10 gallong of summer wheat and 10 gallons of a steamer beer (whatever that is). i have 2 corny kegs and soon will be getting 2...

i tossed a recipe together with things that were on sale at a local store that has some beer making stuff. it came out really good. the grain i used from there was called : Briess caramel malt 40L i went on the aih site to price things on there and i cant find that grain. they have a...

I have 2 cans of munttons lme. the local place that sells brewing stuff had them on clearance so i grabbed 2. they also sell grains and hopps there but so far i have only brewed one "can kit" and i am on my second batch of the AIH summer wheat kit. So if anyone has a recipe for a not supper...

Can i make a lager in my old fridge that only gets down to 40 f?

I made a hopped can kit and had trouble with my stove and could not get the water to boil. after an hour my water was around 195 f and i was pushed for time so i dumped it in the bucket with the extract and the sugar. everything got dissolved and i added the rest of the water, chilled it with my...

my brother wants me to make the beer for his wedding. if i make several batches and keg them and carbonate them do they need to be kept cold? or could i carbonate them in my corny kegs and then chill them before the wedding?

light - amber - dark is it just color or flavor too? and is there more or less sugars in them?

ok we all have seen some form of the wooden barrel beverage dispensers. I would love to do up one of my old cider barrels into a work of art that i could stand in the dinning room and not have to go downstairs to get beer from my ugly fridge with the tap in the door. But I want to be able to...

i am trying to figure out all these new terms.... i have heard lager all my life. But wasnt until i started brewing that i know it had to do with temp. so what is the differnce in some of these terms? ale....stout....ipa ...porter...pilsner....malt....ect??????????????

new to this so beer with me. i ordered the summer wheat kit from aih. loved it. now trying a mutton can kit. But my local hardware store has all its brew stuff on sale foe 20% off. So a can of lme is about 15 bucks. but the cans are only 3.3 lb? my summer wheat kit had 6 lb of lme in it...

so i just started brewing about a month ago. first batch was great! kegged it and been enjoying it often. then i realized how fast it was going so i decided to do a mutton can kit next as i was told they dont take long and taste ok. so for whatever reason my stove refused to boil 2.5 gallons...

1. i am in the middle of brewing my first batch of beer. It will be ready to bottle/keg in about a week. the trouble is i am going to be on vaction for the next week. So i have 2 choices. Leave the beer in a carboy until i get back or go to the keg and set my pressure and leave it carbinate for...

so my buddy has a new keg....but used regulator and tank. while leak testing his set up his line and regulator turned frosty and super cold. is this normal? could he have nitrogen instead of co2?

ok so i just did my first batch of beer. it is an AIH summer wheat kit. it says to steep the grains at 150-160 for 20 min. i started at 155 or so and turned down the heat but it climbed to about 170 so i removed from heat and it returned to below 160 but it was probably above 160 for half of the...

new guy from PA. probably have lots of questions.... i have my first batch of beer boiling while i created this account... its a wheat beer kit. i have made hard cider (barrels) apple wine, and stag horn sumac wine. looking to learn and share!:)