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Hey all, I'm getting back into brewing. Picked up a much better job that gives me some $$$ for brewing. I've been upgrading my system (chest freezer, 2 kegs, grain mill, bulk grains and hops, ball valve for my kettle, immersion chiller, swamp pump etc). I have been brewing IPA's almost...

Pretty sure i made headache beer. 11 months ago it was SUPER hot with Fusel alcohols. I let it age in the fermenter. Bottled it a couple months ago, taste great. Loaded with esters. Both me and my girlfriend have split two bottles and both have gotten headaches (similar to getting too drunk on...

So I just bottled my first Brett beer. I was able to buy a case of Champagne bottles for 10 bucks from a friend (but only the one case). However, I had been saving up a bunch of Cook's champagne bottles from when my GF and her friends have mimosas. They were American bottles so in theory...

Hey guys, Before I go any further I need to preface this thread very quickly: I've never brewed with Brett, at all. Not in secondary, at bottling, or in primary. However, I LOVE Brett Beers. Orval being my favorite(I do understand Orval is brewed first with Sach, then Brett.). So, I...

Hey guys, I'm a film maker. I'm partaking in a contest right now, making a 60 second commercial for a nanobrewery, in northern California. Their beer is great! But i wanna know what you guys think is missing in the advertisement of small, localized, neighborly craft beers. Usually these...

So I have 18 cases of champagne bottles and 2 Belgians coming up, how can I use these? I know some can be capped, but they're to big for my capper, so where can I get a capper that will fit? If I wanted to cork them, what corker do I need? I guess my third option are those plastic corks and...

So after I added my sparge water to the mashtun (after collecting my first runnings) I realized I broke my thermometer in the sparge kettle, contaminating the water. My thermometer is alcohol based, and that part didn't break so no worries there, but the metal was lead (it did not stick to any...

So I got a 15gallon wine barrel from a winemaker. He's used it for 4 years, with several batches of Syrah. He told me he had purchased the barrel while he and his wife took a 4 month trip to Burgundy, France, where they bought it from a small, small vineyard. It's French Oak. From what I...

Hey guys, So I got done bottling an American Wheat about 20 minutes ago. As I was putting away my bottles I noticed several of them had little black specks of mold, and a couple with big black floating mold, either at the base, or floating to the top of the bottle. I discarded of the ones...

I think this gets posted about once a week, but i've finally had a beer not carbonate and I'm wondering what I can do? So here's the story: 4-5 weeks ago I had a particularly ambitious day. I brewed a batch, bottled my IIPA and my bitter. For the IPA I did the standard 4oz of corn sugar. For...

I had my first infection:( It was a combination of me being lax with sanitation and fruit flies. Here's what happened: I fermented an ESB and had it sitting in primary. We had a fruit flies in the house so I just didn't open the primary until last night (three weeks after brew day) and...

So being in San Francisco we're pretty far from DFH. Last night my girlfriend and I picked up a 4-pack of this beer after I had been telling her about their 120 minute IPA(which i have not had but read about)I gotta say though, this beer is not at all an IPA; which has me thinking, maybe my beer...

Just wanted to pose this to you guys: I'm making an ESB tomorrow, and I'm basing it on my Bitter recipe. Basically this is a big version of my bitter. My bitter recipe is loosely based on Ska Brewing's(from Durango, CO) ESB recipe; which they sent me as part of their news letter. I...

I opened a 7 year old Cabernet Sauvignon called Cover Dive tonight and when I opened it it seemed to "foam". To me, it tastes good. My girlfriend can't detect anything wrong with it, but I've never seen this before. Is it spoiled?

So I started making beer so that, eventually, I could make wine; good wine. I do all-grain and make my own recipes with my brewing, so I wanna dive straight into winemaking. It doesn't seem anymore difficult than beer, just a couple of differences. I think for my first wine(or two; I have...

I had a batch finish at 1.030. It was a partial mash stout and I realize now that I under pitched yeast. I didnt know under pitching was the problem at first so I made a simple syrup and added that after fermentation and it brought my points down. I was talking to the guys at my lhbs and they...

So a guy I work with is getting married in October. His wife(and her friends) love my beer so he's asked me to brew him 15 gallons. I said yes cause he's offering to pay me for my time, cover the ingredients cost and it's a perfect excuse for me to brew all weekend. So, what should I make? He...

So I made a hefe that had an OG of 1.049 and finished out at 1.010. I wanted a bit more body so I primed with Wheat DME(I don't have my notes in front of me do I don't know the exact measurement, prolly close to a cup). I mixed the DME and yeast when it cooled and it had started to fernent by...

So as I understand a gravity reading (in regards to beer making) is a way of essentially measuring sugars in the solution( water). Am I right to assume that a gravity reading of 1.040 is saying there's 4 grams of sugar in the sample? Or 40 grams? Or am I just completely off base?

Just got done bottling this beer and it will be carbonated in about 4 weeks. The samples I've pulled are delicious. I can already tell all of the flavors I wanted are there. I will post pictures and detailed tasting notes in about 4 weeks. About this beer: I went to Germany earlier this...