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Hi all, I just made my first batch on Saturday, and all went fairly well. The OG was right on, and everything else went as expected. Well this morning I checked the fermentor, and it is not bubbling. I thought at around 24 hours it was supposed to start bubbling. Does this mean that...

Air in the Beer. Turns out I am a poet and didn't even know it. (lets see if I can keep the song theme going) So when I rack from primary to secondare, towards the end it starts to suck up air, and blow bubbles in my beer, and from what I read and what I hear, Maybe this should give me...

Hello all, Well I tasted my first batch a couple weeks ago and it was good. Waiting a couple more weeks, last night I took some over my friends house, and they tasted like carbonated water. There was a little flavor, but there was not much after taste. I did a Brewers Best Red Ale kit, and...

holla back youngin's, If you sanitize the test tube and the hydrometer and everything else, why is it not a good idea to dump the beer back into the fermenter after taking a reading? I ask because I did this on my last batch, before I heard that you shouldn't do that. I am just going to...

Hello all, If IPA and Stout were people, who would win in a fight? I am visualizing IPA being the character in street fighter with the stretchy arms and legs. That guy was pretty awsome. However, I am visualizing stout being a Mike Tyson like character. Which is definitly something I...

What is the best beer you have ever had besides your own? Mine is Pabst Blue Ribbon. (after all it did win a blue ribbon) But seriously, mine is Dark Horse Brewery (in Marshall, MI) Crooked Tree IPA. It is delicious.

Hello all, Well I want to go to AG ASAP, and have read a bunch about it. However, I learn better from watching. I just watched the Joe Polvino video that was very informative, but I have just a basic setup. Can anyone suggest a video on youtube or any other site that will give me a good...

Bleach is a good Nirvana CD. On that note, I am reading homebrewing for dummies, and they say the most cost effective sanitizer is bleach. Me being a cheap ass, I want to use bleach. Why do you not have to rinse bleach? I ask, because they say rinsing is not necessary in the book, but I...

Okay all, With wine you are suppose to drink red with red meat, and white with white meat. There is probably some more rules and what have you, but that is what I know right now. Anyways, is there rules with beer? When I am sitting down and eating a big juicy hamburger from McDonalds, j/k...

Hello, So this is just a quick question, and I am curious if anyone can answer. So I am on my third batch. I use an Ale Pail to ferment in. My first batch recieved no airlock activity, and I was informed there was probably a leak in the top of the bucket. (common from what I hear)...

Hello all, Well I just tried my first batch (that was not made with a Mr. Beer kit) last night. It was a red ale. It was great. It tasted the exact way that I thought it wouldn't. For some reason I thought that the first brew is usually always bad until you get the hang of it. Anyway...

So I got a bad ass picture in my gallery, but I want it to show whenever I post something over to the left: <------------------------------------- How do I do this?

Happy Friday, Okay so I could do some research on this and answer my own question, but I am lazy, and you guys are experts and I trust your advice over what I can find on google. I am currently working with a 5 gallon kit. I have made two batches so far and they have both turned out...

Hello peeps, Okay so I brewed an Irish Stout today with my friend who didn't know what was going on. Anyway, when the wort was chilling I told him what we had to do next. I went to go get some pizza while it cooled in the sink and my friend took it upon himself to poor the wort in the pail...

Hi all, So my little bottling tube thing-a-ma-jigger just broke when I tried to hook up the siphon hose to it. Do I really need this, of can I just put the hose right in the bottle? I can't see any reason why I would need to get a new one, but I thought I would ask just in case it serves...

Hi all, The directions for my siphon say that you only need to pump it two or three times, but I used it yesterday to fill up my test tube and I had to continuously pump. Can someone please tell me the best way to use one since the directions are hard to follow.

Okay, It has been 4 days since I brewed my first batch, and I am still getting no action out of the airlock. There was Krausen at first but now it has gone down. I know you can't judge if it is fermenting judging by the airlock but here is the reason I think it might be bad. First of...

Hi all, I just got a brewers best Deluxe kit, and only one of the buckets has a spigot on it. Should I use the one with the spigot as the bottling bucket or the fermenter. And why? Any help will do. Thanks

Hi all, Tomorrow I am making my first batch ever (brewers best red ale kit). I have been reading home brew for dummies, and I have been reading this site to get tips, but I am still confused on a few things. After I am done boiling the wort, how do I get the hops out if I don't use a...

For my first batch I made a Pale Ale. It has been bottled for a week and a couple days, and I got a little anxious and opened one last night to see how it tasted. The smell was not all there (kind of bad but not horrible), and it tasted like it was too carbonated, and not amazing. Is the...