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I was mentally noodling with the idea of CO2 and brewing, and I came to wonder how much Carbon Dioxide a typical batch of beer puts out during fermentation. I did my own math, and I came up with about 783 grams for a 5.5% ABV beer. Has anyone else done the calculation? Does anyone want...

Hi Folks, I'll be uncapping my first original recipe beer in a week or so, and since this one's all mine, I thought I'd whip up a label for it, especially since a lot of it is going to wind up as a birthday gift for a friend. Here's my first crack: Any Suggestions?

The cardboard 12-packs I've been using to store, stack, and lug my beer around have been getting kinda soggy and ratty, and I needed an excuse to play in the garage, so I decided it was time for something a bit more substantial. I whipped this guy up in a day, out of some plain ol' select...

Hey Folks, Last weekend, I brewed up my first original recipe ever. I started small, only using 3 pounds of grain. When I did the math, it looks like I came up with about a 65% mash efficiency. I'll admit that the equipment I'm using right now isn't exactly ideal. I'm fly sparging with a...

Hey Folks, I've whipped up a first shot at a recipe. A friend of mine is having a graduation/birthday party in a few months, and her husband asked me to make a batch of beer for the shindig. She's a big fan of Yuengling lager, but I'm still a bit of a noob, so I'm not nearly comfortable...

Hi Folks! Upon reading DeathBrewer's awesome sticky, I decided that my third batch ever would be a partial mash kit from morebeer.com. I received their Irish Stout kit in the mail yesterday, and I'll be brewing on Saturday. Now, morebeer has some instructions online that differ from...

Bottled a 2-gallon batch of Ancient Orange mead yesterday. It already tastes good. Very tart, since I used some very berry-tasting blood oranges, so it's not super-sweet like some meads can be (in my experience). Here's my motley assortment of bottles. The middle one is clear glass, so...

Hey guys, On Sunday, I pitched a batch of a British Pale Ale from a brew store kit. It was a beginner's kit (my second batch ever), so the ingredients were pretty simple. 6.6 lbs Northwestern Gold LME a pack of kettle hops, 60 Min (the hop blend is proprietary to the shop that built the...

Hi Folks, I'm working on my first batch ever, a nut brown ale kit from a local shop. Everything seemed to go fine. I pitched, it bubbled, it stopped, and I racked it over to a secondary to clear. That's when things got weird. I estimate that there's only about 3 gallons present of the...