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So, I took about 3 years off of brewing.:( Prior to that I was brewing on a weekly basis. I purchased my ingredients in bulk and had gotten to a point that even a big beer 5 gallon batch wasn't costing me more than $15. Because of my abrupt departure from brewing (kids, kids, kids) I...

Theeeeeeeyyyyy'rrrreee Baaaaaaacckkkk!!! The Drunken Celtic Brewers are going to do another live brewcast this Sunday, 9/5/10 at 6PM EDT!!! We've done the Scotigyle, the Celtigyle, and now we are going to an Anglogyle! This will be an English-based partigyle - brewing two beers from the same...

I think that someone messed with the temp controller today cause the interior was still about 65 degrees F up from 45 degrees F. The wort/beer was at 75 degrees F. As of Sunday (7 days after I pitched) it was about 50% fermented and I know for sure that the temp was correct then. It's now...

Do any of you guys have ideas how to pasteurize my already bottled beer/wine/mead without popping the caps or corks off/out? I've lost corks to 110 degree F temps so that worries me. :tank:

I am trying to punch the numbers in my brewing software but can't find any source for this info. Any help would definitely be appreciated. Thanks! :tank:

I plan on making an Old Ale on New Years Day. I want to use Black Treacle. My problem is finding it. I know I can order it online but I saw something called King's Po-T-Rik syrup at my grocery store. King's also has a golden syrup. I know that Lyle's makes a golden syrup and a black...

Hagen and I will be doing a Brewcast tonight. We're doing a partigyle, wee heavy and 80/-. We plan on starting at 9pm. Although feel free to start checking in around 7:30 or so as we may start earlier. It'll be at HagenBrew - Mogulus Live Broadcast There's also a chat window for live feedback...

Doing it as we speak! I am doing a double decoction. My first decoction wasn't as thick as I wanted it to be but I think I will be ok. I am improvising to get the right thickness on the second one. My goal was to get up to 145 degrees for my second 20 minute rest. I got 124 for my...

I have been largely out of the whole brewing scene for the most part for the last 2 months or so. I apparently missed the fact that AHB stopped their weekly drawing. Does anyone know what happened-why this occurred? :tank:

Thought I would post the text from an email that the president of Fredericksburg Brewing Insiders sent (my homebrew club). All, Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day was a success. Sorry I couldn't be there. If you haven't had a chance to read "Musings Over a Pint" , David sums it up very...

So, this is not a political discussion. So please keep it away from that. I have to bring up politics to illustrate the context at which I titled this thread. So I was talking to my mom last week and she asked me what I thought of Palin being the Veep nominee. I started telling my mother...

I am sorry if this has already been covered. I did do a search but only saw references to using it but no how to prepare. I have a melomel that is very cloudy. I was planning on transferring it to quatinary tonight. I was going to use gelatin finings to try to clear but I was wondering if...

Friend of mine who could give a sh*t less about my brewing (or so I thought) was at his buddies house on Monday night. Apparently, this keg had been sitting empty in the front yard for 2 weeks. My friend asked him what he was gonna do with it and the guy said he was going to throw it away. My...

So I've got a 5 gallon Mead that I made on 4/27/08. I transferred it off the yeast on 7/5/08 with SG of 1.011. This had 15 lbs of honey, water, and whitelabs sweet mead yeast and started at 1.116. My wife just got 2 lbs of blacksberries and I was wondering if it is too late to put those in...

So I am part of a homebrew club that has connections with Blue and Gray Brewery in Fredericksburg, VA. Just got an email earlier this week that they were giving out there Hefeweizen yeast to club members for free. I stopped by today and got half a gallon of yeast slurry. Now I gotta figure...

I was just wondering how it came out. Is it worth me trying to make a 1 gallon batch of it? I know what OJ tastes like if you leave it out of the fridge for a long time. I was wondering if it didn't taste nasty like that. :tank:

I posted this in my "First AG" Thread but I think that, based on the subject, it might be better to start a new thread to ask this question. So it looks like when I took my sparge gravity (?) it was high. My guess is that I didn't stir it enough. Anyway, I am assuming that Beersmith knows how...

So i exchanged my five gallon tank today for another aluminum tank. Looked pretty good. attached my regulator to it and began to open the valve. Heard and felt the CO2 leaving from the regulator connection and the male threads on the tank. I don't get it. I tightened the nut til it hurt my...

So this past Saturday I did my first AG!!! My friend Hagen came over and helped me through the process. My Corona Mill sucks but I somehow managed to get an 81.5% efficiency!!! Brewed an extract version of the same recipe today and in 6 weeks or so, I will get the chance to taste and...