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has anyone heard of crown-cappable 40oz bottles OK for homebrewing? I see the are some 32 oz varieties, but I'm not finding much else. Any suggestings? Beretta

Howdy, Extract Brewers! I passed along a Irish Stout recipe to my brother, and extract/partial grain brewer who reports that this recipe failed: 6 lb. Amber DME 1 lb dark roasted barley 1/2 lb flaked barley Yeast + Hops (kent golding) In his words: "My stout from the recipe you gave...

During my last 2-3 batches I've gotten pretty lazy during my sparges. After about fifteen minutes of a regular english style sparge (after the grain bed settles), I simply opened the valve on my HTL, and emptied 3-4 gallons of sparge water into my MT. I ended up with about 7-8 inches of sparge...

Am I the only person who wears a brew hat while brewing? In most kitchens and commercial food plants, basic kitchen etiquette calls for wearing hats, hairnets, beardnets, a gloves. Why not during brewing? I'm not a santitation nut ( at least not before the boil is over) but I see loads of...

I don't see many (any?) AG recipes using potatos. I can't imagine they would add much taste to a beer, but does anybody have experience with mashing potatos? (pardon the pun) Just a thought. I went into my fridge today and looked at my 5 pounds of slowly rotting spuds and thought: starch...

I have this nugget of wisdon I'de like to share with the group: Four the best pour, head, and lace from your homebrew, prepare your serving glasses this way: 1. Clean your glasses as usual, let dry. Yes you can use a dishwasher, and soap! 2. Before serving, to remove all residual soaps...

I'm relatively new to plating and slanting yeast. I'm in the process of isolating/purifying a White Lab 004, Irish Ale strain. The plates took, and show no signs of gross infection, and I have isolated round colonies, but the streaks are very pale, very translucent looking. I've tried this...

I'm curious to the HB's experience with Cooper's Ale Yeast. I've been using it on and off for a few years now, and even have it slanted. I found a particular package a few years ago the ferments so darn vigorous its kinda scary. I brewed with it again yesterday morning, and my fermenter was...

I've been working on simpllfying my brew process. I figured one way I figure I could reduce complications was to reduce my infusion mash formulas down as much as possible. I figure by always using a mash grain/water ratio to 1.25 qts/lb (or 2.5 lb/lb by weight) would allow me reduce...

Last evening, after brewing, I ended up with about 1.5 gals of 1.050 extra wort, that I didn't know what to do with (besides canning) so I left it in the unsanitized bucket, loosely covered with a lid, and poured the dregs from a couple of homebrews (coopers / WLP004) in during the night. This...

Sunday, I had my most painfull brew session: 1. My sparge stuck, twice. 2. I couldn't get my mash temp above 144 F for reason 1, above. 3. I'm sure I got plenty of HSA do to reason 1, above. 4. Tropical Depression Ike shut off my power just after the sparge, but before the boil, so I...

Hello fellow brewers. !First Post Alert! I have been brewing beer for 4-5 years, and last year I switched to all grain brewing. Early on, I used to have trouble controlling my OG. Some beers where too small, and some where too big. I figure this had a lot to do with my then constantly...