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Hey all, my father is coming down this weekend and I'm looking for a some what cheap recipe. I'm looking for something that my BMC friends would enjoy and have read that a cream ale would be a good choice. I am looking for something like a cream of three crops (I think that's what it was called)...

My wife and I are going to Red Lobster for our anniversary on Friday. I plan on getting a grilled lobster trail or coconut shrimp. What would be a good beer to issue with either of these. I have heard a hefe goes well but wanted some other opinions.

I transferred my beer to s secondary and realized that an infection is begging to develop. It is done fermenting as I have gotten 3 gravity readings over 4 days, but I had planned to let it sit in the secondary to age and clear for one more week. My question is, should I go ahead and move to...

So I decided to make a 5 gallon batch of pumpkin ale. I used 4 lbs of pumpkin and add it with 15 min left on the boil. I go to transfer it from primary into secondary and only get 3 maybe 4 gallons out. The rest was soaked up into a pumpkin sludge at the bottom of the fermenter. Not really...

I'm new to kegs and was wondering how often do you guys clean you beer lines. Do you clean them after each day of use or just after the keg is done? Do you have another keg that has the cleaner already in it and you just hook the line up to it?

I brewed a pumpkin ale tonight and I scorched a bit of my lme. How bad still this affect my beers flavor? I stained it when I poured it into my fermenter so that nothing got into the fermentation bucket. Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

So I have the opportunity to get 4 corny kegs, a 2 or 3 tap hose and picnic tap dispensing set up, freezer, and CO2 tank for around 400 dollars. My question is, is it worth the money. My fear is that I wont drink the beer fast enough and it will go bad. I may have one beer when I get home from...

Here is the scenario, It's doomsday you have a 5 gallon brew pot, a 6 gallon carboy and one pack of us-05 yeast. What do you look for to use as fermentables, what do you brew, and how do you g about brewing it? All ingredients must be found by scavenging.

So tax returns are coming and after getting some things we need for our unborn child, and things to fix up our house. SWMBO has decided we each get 500 dollars for "fun" things for ourselves. I have a bottling bucket, caper, siphon, bottle wand, 6 gallon glass carboy, bottles, hydrometer and 5...

So I'm looking at trying my hand at a Pumpkin pie ale. I know it is out of season but I would like to try one before it is in season. Below is the recipe I intend to follow. Batch size: 5.0 gal Yeasts American Ale II Wyeast 1272 Fermentable Briess 2-Row...

I'm looking into getting into kegging and I was thinking about using the plastic pub kegs as it is what my LHBS caries. However, I can not find any sources for them online. Were these recalled or something. When I do a google search for shopping, only one source comes up. I understand that I...

So I made a hard root beer and was going to pasteurize. They have been conditioning for 2 days and now they are gushing foam when I open them. I know I can not pasteurize with them gushing. What should I do because now they are ticking bombs. I could put them outside to cold crash and try to...

I made a ginger beer and let it ferment for a week. I then racked into a carboy with one gallon of apple juice. It sat in the secondary for about a week and FG was 1.008 over 3 days. I did use priming sugar at about 3/4 of a cup for a 5 gallon batch. My Question is, should these be pasteurized...

I cleaned my carboy with oxyclean and a carboy brush. However, I did not soak the carboy overnight. Is it essential that I soak it over night, or is it alright that as long as I scrubbed and rinsed I will be okay? The carboy looks clean I'm just not sure about micro particles.

So I tried my first Heff today, it was Weihenstephaner Heff Weissbier. The smell at first was as promoted. It smelled like bananas. However, I also noticed an after taste I could not put my finger on. Then I realized that it tasted almost like an ashtray. (YES!!! I accidentally drank a beer I...

So I tried my first Heff today, it was Weihenstephaner Heff Weissbier. The smell at first was as promoted. It smelled like bananas. However, I also noticed an after taste I could not put my finger on. Then I realized that it tasted almost like an ashtray. (YES!!! I accidentally drank a beer I...

I'm making a hard root beer and it calls for nothingham ale yeast. My LHBS said I could use us-05 and it would be okay. Well I had to use the us-05 fir something else and can't get to my LHBS because of a site storm. I do have red star active dry for baking bread, can I use the red star or will...

So when I took my OG it was 1.050 according to my hydrometer. I later took another reading but was looking at the portion of the hydrometer that reads ABV it was reading like 2% ABV this lead me to believe that I had produced a low ABV beer. I took another reading today and the ABV was the same...

I soaked my bottles in oxiclean and now they look like they have been frosted or something. I can't seem to get the film off. Are my bottles ruined? Sent from my SCH-I545 using Home Brew mobile app

I am trying to make an Abita Purple Haze Clone. I plan on using American Caramel /Crystal 30L. Can I steep this in a muslin bag for 30 min before boil? If so what should the water temp be? Below is my recipe any suggestion would be appreciated. Also here is the link to abitas site describing the...