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  1. sTango

    Apfelwein update on first batch!

    I know, another Apfelwein thread, sorry.... My first batch is really combined two batches totalling about 6.5 gallons, right to the top of my carboy. OG three weeks ago was 1.67, today it is 1.010 or 7.4% abv. I'm leaving it for at least another week in the primary before I even think...
  2. sTango

    First Yeast Saved Questions

    Hi, So I am going down the road of making my own starters and I kept the yeast from the batch of Ale I bottled last night. I boiled the jar to put it in and the water also, let it cool and then drained the yeast from the secondary carboy into the jar. After seperating, I noticed two...
  3. sTango

    Woman drowns in rain barrel?

    How is that even possible? Darwin award finalist? http://www.koat.com/news/14993696/detail.html
  4. sTango

    Taking the plunge

    Yay!!! i'm taking the plunge. I'm working on my Lauter tun (its a 54 quart cooler I already had) and decided to go ahead and buy the stuff for my first couple of batches. I'm pretty excited. I tried making the filter with the stainless steel mesh from a toilet supply line, but it appears that...
  5. sTango

    I made a hodgepodge wine or swill....

    So my wife wanted to throw out some table grapes we had that our kids didnt eat. I said "Hold on there, I'm a brave brewer now and I can make something with that." Lol, so heres what I used: 1. About 4 cups of Red Globe table grapes chopped up (a few stems made it in) 2. 1 cup blueberry...
  6. sTango

    This is downright scary....

    .....so what better place to post than on a homebrew forum.... I searched for this already on here but did not find it posted, so if it already has been, please accept my apologies as I do not want to rekindle old stuff.
  7. sTango

    All the best to you in 2008

    From a n00b to all of you, I hope you find contentment and accomplish all of your goals for the new year, including making lots of beer and wine!
  8. sTango

    Concord wine question and what I just did

    So, I made about 4 gallons of concord wine last year. Steps were as follows: 1. Picked and washed the grapes 2. layered them with sugar in a bucket 3. topped with water 4. let ferment for 3 months 5. racked for 6 months 6. bottled you'll notice there are no measurements or gravity...
  9. sTango

    What would my MAX o.g. reading be?

    So I brewed a Brewers Best Brown Ale kit last weekend. 3.3 lbs Plain Amber LME 2 lbs plain amber DME 8 oz 60L crystal 5 cups of raw honey 1.5 oz willamette Nottingham Ale Yeast Says o.g. without honey should be 1.040-1.048 and f.g. should be 1.010-1.012 Steps I steeped the grain...
  10. sTango

    Help naming my Stout

    I have an Irish Stout in secondary right now. I need help with the name. It needs to be Lovecraftian (in keeping with the works of the author HP Lovecraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft) or his peers such as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch and other horror writers from that time...
  11. sTango

    Adding Honey will alter ABV how much?

    Hi all, I brewed a batch of Brewers Best English Brown Ale. In the last 15 minutes of the boil I added 2 cups of honey for a 5 gallon batch. I have been doing this for a while because I like the slight honey flavor of the beer and have been wondering how much it affects the ending numbers...
  12. sTango

    Hi from Tennessee

    Hi all, Greetings from the Nashville area. I've been brewing extract kits for about 5 years now. I bottled in the beginning, but now I keg. I mostly use brewers best kits and have had pretty good results with them. Anyone have any recommendations for other LME kits that are better, but still...
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