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Ok as some of you may know I am a paramedic in Baton Rouge La, In case you havent heard we had a Little storm which knocked out the power for the past week. I had a Bitburger clone in secondary in my freezer at 55 degrees until I got activated and did not come home from work for 8 days. Well...

So I went to the LHBS, a short 6 hr drive each way, and got my ingredients for several beers one of which is a Wit Beer and as usual, put the all the grains in the same bag for each recipe. Well, I wasn;t thinking when I did the Wit because I put the flaked wheat in with all the other grains. I...

i just cleaned my beer lines, faucet etc after my last keg. I hooked up my current keg and get nothing but large sputtering foam. I didn't change any settings or the length of the tubing. What could be the cause? I have tried to take apart the faucet thinking I messed something up but it looks...

I brewed a Munich Dunkel and had doubled the recipe to 10 gallons and forgot to double the bittering hops. OOPS!! How can I correct this. Its currently in secondary.

I have a question about CO2 tanks. Can you put these on their sides? I use O2 tanks at work and they are pretty much always on their sides, but they are also gas not liquid as CO2 is. Just thinking of ways to maximize my space in the freezer.

Ok actually its in Metaire. 70+ brews on tap plus another page of bottled beers. Best selections I've seen so far. They have a club of somekind, can't remember the name, but if you drink all the beers on tap you get a "free" t-shirt. As we were on our 4th or 5th beer we added up that it will...

A buddy of mine and I were talking about oatmeal stouts one day and we remembered back to our childhood eating maple and brown sugar instant oatmeal. Has anyone made one? The buddy was wondering when to add the brown sugar without being used by the yeast. My suggestion would be to add it after...

Well it happened. My first infection. :( i brewed a Fat Tire clone and it was great through kegging it. I tried it after racking to keg and it tasted fine, a little sour but pretty good. After 3 weeks in the keg i tried a pint the other day. YIKES!! Talk about sour! After just a taste i tossed...

Has anyone used superclear? I have an American lager in secondary for 6 weeks now and when i did a hydrometer test I noticed it was very cloudy. I am planning on racking it to a keg soon and wanted y'alls opinion on this. A friend of mine has some superclear that he hasn't used and offered it to...

Hey guys and gals, I have been lurking about for a few weeks now learning from others mistakes and just started my first home brew yesterday. It is an American Lager. I made a large starter with the yeast and oddly enough it worked great!! If any of you know me you know that I have tried to...

Hey guys and gals. Newbie here from Louisiana. Just bought all of my equipment and looking forward to my first brew, just waiting for it to cool off a little. I am planning on kegging the beer. I got a hell of a deal on Craigslist for my equipment. I bought 5 Corney's, 20# CO2 tank with...