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Hi, I figured I'd show some pics of my old school can collection. These are only my cans from the 1930's to the 60's. All of my 70's pull tabs are stored away in the attic. The reason that many are rusty is because most are extremely tough and expesive to get in grade 1 (mint) condition. One...

I decided to bottle today. I have all the bottles bottled and now my damn capper wont work. Is it possible to cap without a capper?

I did some more reading out of the new joy of homebrewing and the author said that hop pellets need to be strained. I never read anything about this in the brew kit instructions. They just said add hop pellets and stir till disolved. Was I surposed to strain out the cascade and chinook hop...

Ok I brewed my beer on 2/7. (IPA) The directions said it would be ready to bottle a week after which is today 2/14. Then ferment for another month in the bottle. I cleaned and sanitized everthing, got everything ready and took a hydrometer reading which had a close final gravity given in brew...

Hi ya'll, just got a quick question. I will be bottling my homebrewd IPA within a week and wanted to ask this before I forgot. My ingredient kit came with 5 oz. of priming sugar (Dextrose) for the 5 gallon batch. Do I use all 5 oz. like the booklet that came with it says, or does anybody recomed...

In reading how to brew by John Palmer, he says not to rinse the sanitized bottles with water straight from the tap. What is the reason for boiling the water, and how do I rinse the bottles after doing this?

I just got done brewing and followed everything to a T, and then as I was putting on the fermentation lock on my fermenter bucket the little rubber circle fell through. Luckly I had another lid and quickly sanitized and put it on. Putting the lock on first then attaching the lid. The only thing...

Hi, just a few more questions about the IPA I'm brewing before I get started. 1. How Do I sanitize the stepping bag? 2. How do I close off the steeping bag, and do I just let it sit or float around in the brewpot for the time that the instruction say, or is there anything else I need to know...

Hi, let me start off by saying this is going to be my first batch of beer I'm brewing. I picked up a True Brew (Crosby & Baker) India Pale Ale ingredient kit yesterday. The kit includes: 2 Amber Malt Extract cans 1 pckg. Muntons Crushed Crystal 2 row barley malt 1 pckg. Chinook Hop Pellets 1...

Hi everyone, great forum here. I am about to brew beer for the first time and have a quick question. I have most of the equiptment I need, except a few little things like bottle caps and sanitizer, which I will pick up. I have one tiny question though. After adding the yeast to my fermenter...