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Alrighty, who likes homebrew? Who likes Crawdads? Who lives in the general vicinity of Louisville, Ky.? Well Aug. 25th I'm having Mudbugs & Brew to celebrate my 41st B-day & more importantly just to have a good time! If you're interested in coming post to the thread so I can get a good idea how...

Ok this is my second batch the first batch went without a hitch & I'm pretty sure this one is also BUT, the fermentation has stopped I'm pretty sure. Hydrometer has been the same for two days. It's only been a week and a half at the time of this post but it stopped at a week & a day. I'm still...

This is my second batch & the first batch had a slightly weak carbonation. I use a bottling wand & I stopped filling the last bottles when it was an inch & a half or so from the top of the bottle. That was WITH THE WAND displacing the beer. My question is this: how far from the top of the bottle...

Have Krausen coming out of my econolock gas release I need to know if this is something to be concerned with.

So yesterday I made another 5 gal. batch. While transferring to the primary an acquaintance of mine was helping me filter the wort & he spilled a small amount of hop dregs into it. Now I know the beer is going to ferment just fine but is this likely to change the characteristics of the beer by much?

Ok so I made my first 5 gallon batch and 3 weeks after it was ready to drink it was all gone! The thing is, not many people besides myself drank it. It was really that good. I've been used to drinking crap like miller but no more. I know what real beer tastes like now. It had a beautiful head...

Ok, I'm taking SG readings as it's getting close to bottling day but when I opened up the fermentor, there appears to be crusty yeast (looks just like the little yeast pellets in the packet but their kind of blackened) or maybe even mold but it doesn't really look like that. Is the beer...

This is the second full day & the fermentation lock isn't bubbling as much as yesterday. Granted it was bubbling pretty good yesterday & the odor coming from the lock already smells like beer. Has my yeast stopped working already or is this normal? Sent from my iPhone using HB Talk

Know I'm getting ahead of myself cause I'm new to home brewing but when I settle on my "standard" beer, I was thinking of calling it "olde scrawny dog" lol. It would have a picture of a medium sized short haired dog walking through a field who was slightly emaciated. What do you think?

More or less, putting beer in a secondary helps clear & improve the flavor by allowing old yeast cells to drop out of the beer right? Since this would also (or seemingly) increase the life of the beer, it makes sense to clear as much yeast out of the beer as much as possible. So here is my...

First I would like to say howdy to everyone as this is my first post, & secondly, I got a heck of a deal on some brewing equipment. 2 food grade buckets (1 6.5 gal. & 1 5 gal.), 1 bottle tree, bottle washer, bottle brush, hydrometer, siphon hose, bottling hose, spigot, bottle capper, bottle...