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Looks amazing! If I get over your way I'll stop in

I'm drinking some home brewed english brown ale, well brewing a belgian strong ale!

I will consider myself warned to avoid that one!

Is using bleach on the bottles, then rinsing in hot water, then starsan soaking bad? Does anyone use bleach? I have had trouble with my last two batches getting good carbonation in the bottles, could this be the problem? One batch I primed with priming sugar, the other with cab tabs...

That's awesome!

Cleared some space in my house in order to shop for a small refrigerator for my 6.5 gallon carboy that I use for fermentation, any suggestions?

Enjoy chimay grand reserve last night. Ladies choice as it's my wife's birthday.

That makes perfect sense, thanks! It's your own personal yeast lab.. definitely going to wash the yeast on the batch I have in primary now when it's ready.

Great information! How long do these keep?

I switched from honey to sugar on this one. I am going with cane sugar, Florida crystals to be exact. I'm excited to brew this one and will get started as soon as my son arrives for summer break from fsu. He wants to learn something valuable while attending university!

Hello everyone, I live in South Florida a little north of Ft Lauderdale and have recently started brewing. I am about to start my third batch this weekend. There are so many styles I want to try brewing and this sees like a great place to talk with others who have lots of knowledge. Looking...

Welcome! My first beer was a brewers best pale ale kit, and I felt like it turned out great! I may try the rye pale ale myself soon. Happy brewing!

I'm very new to this, but I have used bottled water for all the beer I have done so far because I'm not crazy about my city water. You may try that.

Removing labels from bottles in order to reuse them is a pain in the butt!

What is it about your beer that you consider to be inadequate?

Good advice, thank you! After the mash I would guess that steeping is not necessary? Would I at this point just add the mash water straight to a boil, or is there something else that needs to be done? I like to taste the wart every step of the way to better understand how each thing I add...

I have a recipe for a Belgian Golden Strong Ale, but It varies in some ways. I am using 12 lbs Pilsner Liquid Malt extract 1.0 lb Aromatic Malt 1.0 oz Kent Goldings (60 min) Hops 1.0 oz Kent Goldings (12 min) Hops 0.5 oz Williamette (3 min) hops 0.5 oz Sweet...