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I have been trying to decide what to brew and I know it is getting to the point where the Christmas beer needs to be in the primary. Some people might say, past time. I already brewed a pumpkin beer, but that is my fall/halloween/thanksgiving beer. Thoughts for a Christmas beer is an eggnog...

for a camping trip that I am doing the weekend before Halloween. The beer must be bottled and ready to drink by then. The campsite is in an old ghost town that was a sawmill town in the early 1900s and vanished around the great depression. All that is left are a few foundations, old rail beds...

Setting up my kettle and burner to brew an English Pale Ale, as Irene is setting up shop of her own kind. Anyone else brewing in the hurricane?

I've never partial mashed, but I want to make a pumpkin ale this weekend. I've been searching, but can't seem to find a good description on how to do it. I am not sure if I have the gear. I have two kettles, one 3 gallons and he other 5 gallons. No spigots. I usuall use my 5 gallon for the boil...

I brewed an ale version of a vienna lager and wanted to bottle them in modelo negra bottles. I am bottling them right now. I should have checked before, because the caps are going on funny. Seems like they are tight, but going on the same way they do on normal bottles. I am a little worried. I...

When I was in high school back in the mid nineties, we had our parties and everyone always claimed skunky beer was the result of beer being cooled and then warmed. I have always held on to this theory and have never heard otherwise until I got into homebrewing. I remember kids hiding beer in the...

I just want to see how many of you are out there. When I go into Mr. Steve's it seems busniness is doing pretty well, so there must be quite a few. I know there is a brew club there, but I was wondering if anyone was interested in small brew groups and getting to know eachother. Pretty...

In the past, the most I ever had going at once was 3. I am getting for the summer of beer! I have 4 beers fermenting right now and plan to brew a fifth on Saturday. German Alt ready to go into a secondary any day. Hefeweizen has another week or so in the primary and then I am going to rack to...

I bought the AHS Anv ESB kit and I am wondering if the hops additions are adequate. This is my first ever ESB, so I want to nail it and have a classic example of the recipe. Here are the basics of the recipe: grains 1 lb of crystal 90L malt 1/2 lb of Crystal 60L malt - extract 6.5 lbs of...

I have a kit from Brewer's Best for Vienna Lager, but it is new world recipe and I am unhappy with it. It comes with a pound of corn sugar and I would like more malts. I also want better hops. I have some ideas, but I am wondering if anyone has a great vienna lager old school recipe that will...

Anyone brew this? What did you think of it? I have a buddy coming over to brew with me on Saturday and I am worried the kits won't arrive by Friday or Saturday, so I was thinkin of picking up a BB kit just in case and Vienna Lager seems like a good one, although I would need to brew as an...

I was brewing outside yesterday and we got company and allowed the specialty grains to steep to just below 200*. I came into talk and didn't go back out and check soon enough. I probably relaxed and had a homebrew a little too much yesterday. I would never consider anything but seeing it...

So the other day I was bottling a AHS Cream Ale, came out pretty good. I got down to the bottom of the bottling bucket and tried to get the last little bit out of the bucket. I tipped the bucket over and it was almost all out when the bucket fell and knocked over half of my bottles. At first...

The other night I was drinking some homebrews with a friend and he got down these old mugs from Horlacher Brewery in Allentown, PA. They are no longer in business. They used to brew what would be craftbrews these days and their greatest beer was their 9 month perfection ale, which is said to be...

It feels good to be a homebrewer. My first beer was a BB Oktoberfest I brewed as a steam. That beer has been in the bottle for 2 weeks and overall tastes good, but has some suttle off flavors. I think it is still green. My second beer is a BB witbier that I added some sweetened orange peal...

http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/cream-ale-extract-kit-2.html I was thinking of adding a lb of honey to up the alcohol contact and some additional flaked corn for more creaminess. I was also thinking of pitching ale and lager yeast. The kit does not come with much hops. I know cream ales...