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Thanks for all the good ideas. I'm going to try a couple and I will let you know.

I'm looking for a simple AG IPA. Preferably one grain, no more than two. Also, using one variety of hops for everything. Being a real hophead, the more hops the better. I swear I've seen a recipe like this on the forum but I can't find it now. HELP!

All I have ever used is pellets but I'm looking forward to using whole hops. Just planted three each of Chinook and Cascade. They're growing like, well, weed(s). My question is next year when I have something to harvest, everyone talks about drying the hops. Couldn't you just put a batch up...

I just finished my first AG attempt and everything (most everything) went OK except the hot water wasn't high enough and I had to lift 5 gallons of 170° water over my head. Anyway, when I got to the boil, there were lots of light colored particles in the wort. As the boil progressed, they...

Thanks a lot for the ideas guys. Edd

I'm getting ready to build my three level brew rig and, without going through everyone's galleries at random, could someone point me toward some pics of good rigs? Also, any pointers you might have. Thanks

Duh, what's a brew belt? I never heard of that before but then I'm from Oklahoma.

Do you guys ever go to bed?

Cost? My lhbs loves to see me coming! I've never walked out of there for less than $150. It doesn't help that I'm a gadget freak.

A friend did the art work for me and I just put it into Word as a jpg file and printed off a master sheet to fit Avery 5164 labels (3 1/3X4). I then take the master and labels down to the local copy shop and get them to run copies on my labels on their color laser printer. The inkjets would...

I had the same problem when I first started kegging, the foam was horrible. I finally discovered that I had no O Ring under the outlet tube and the gas was pumping as much air from the leak as it was beer. Check your O rings.

On their web site, they list every beer they make, the ingredients, and the characteristics. They also show the "OG" of every beer and I don't understand where they get it. These numbers are all in the 1.010 to 1.025 range - looks to me like FG numbers instead. I sent them an email but they...

Here is the label I use for everything since I am extremely lazy. I just change the text at the bottom for different beers. The caricature is of the truck my son and I built - you can see a picture of it at eddalex.com. The license plate on the truck really does say "BUTUGLY" - I told my wife I...

Another dumb question from an extract brewer - is all of the liquor supposed to go into the end of the braided hose or is the hose made of braid only and some of it goes through the braid? I know this is dumb but I admit it.

OK, here's the problem - I made a batch of high test IPA (about 1.072 SG) with Northern Brewer hops both for bittering and at the end. When I first put it in the fermenter, it had a very hoppy smell. Now, after a week in the fermenter and a week in the carboy, I can't smell any hops at all. Did...

The immersion chillers really do work though. I had 5 gallons of wort the other day and cooled it from boiling to 74d. in about 11 minutes. I had tried ice and it did seem to take a long time. On the other hand, whats the difference between 11 and 25 minutes? Does it really make any?

So what causes the solid particles in the beer to fall out when you rack it? I had a high test IPA which had been in the primary for a week and activity was almost completely stopped. I racked it into a carboy 30 minutes ago, and within 15 minutes, I had at least 3/4" of sediment in the bottom...

OK, so everyone agrees that its better to rack it to a seconday. When? I know that on wine you usually wait until the SG is below 1.010. Does this hold true with beers as well?

On my very first batch to keg, I siphoned the beer into the keg, put the CO2 to it and, after a couple of days, tried to get beer out. All I could get was foam - it didn't make any difference what I tried, all I got was foam. I finally convinced myself that there was something bad in the beer...

I just messed up a batch of Hefeweisen by not using a starter. I pitched the White Labs WLP300 Hefeweisen yeast when the wort was 79 degrees, OG was 1.056 (everything perfect). After 18 hours, absolutely nothing going on. I got nervous and pitched some dry yeast from an old Coopers kit. At...