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I am located in Brookfield IL. That time has come again for me to purge my beer room of extra bottles. Here's whats up for grabs today: 24x12oz. - clean and delabeled longnecks 12x12oz. - clean and delabeled bottles (these bottles are either silk screened bottles or have embossing on...

I brewed up my 2010 Flanders Brown a few days ago and have a question about whether it will be ok to age on the primary sediment. I only pitched a smack-pak of Roselare yeast for this beer and now that it's fermenting I noticed a noticeable amount of sediment on the bottom, most of which I can...

I searched and didn't see this linked anywhere yet. I haven't been as active on this site the last few months but have spent a lot of time over at BeerAdvocate as I've been working up my commercial cellar collection. Over there, about a month ago, there was an idea to conduct a homebrewers...

I am located in Brookfield IL. I'm about to begin kegging now and with the upgrade SWMBO is making me get rid of some of the bottle taking up room in our apartment. I can give away 3 cases (72 bottles) and still have plenty for me to bottle some from the keg and for special beers. These...

I posted this in the Chicagoland Brewers group as well but this may see more people. Next week I'm going to be around the Mid Country Malt warehouse area so I figured why not pick up a sack of Pilsner malt and Maris Otter for the upcoming 10.10.10 brew as well as some others in my pipeline...

The title says it all. I have my starter covered in tin foil as I always do. i went to put it in the fridge today to crash cool it and noticed a single fruit fly floating on top of it. I know all about acetobacter and vinegar and am aware of the possible consequences. How risky is it to...

So I have some washed yeast in my fridge of WY #3725 that is approaching a year old. I want to see if it is still viable so I build a 1L starter today from it. It still smelled yeasty so I have high hopes. In the off chance it is viable I want to be ready to brew with it either tomorrow...

I came up with a question that stemmed from this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/milky-star-san-130330/ I know that having star-san milky doesn't indicate ineffectiveness in itself but is the reverse true? I mean if it is clear, than would that mean the star-san good to go? I've...

I have made a similar beer three different times. Not that impressive i know, but I've only brewed about 15 times and these were my only repeats. I realized all three brews I had improved my brewing process so I thought a vertical tasting was in order both to see how the beer aged and how my...

I've used my Ic for about 15 batches so far and my cleaning regimen has stayed mostly the same. After a brew I rinse all the hops off and then just dunk it in my bucket of oxi-clean until all the equipment is ready to be put away. It then gets a nice rinse again and stored until next brew day...

With about 15 minutes left in the boil of my 2-row/ Sorachi Ace SMaSH yesterday it started raining. I couldn't find an umbrella handy so I just let the rain hit the boil kettle. I didn't think that was too big of a deal until it started storming with about 5 minutes left. It was raining so...

I picked up this lot of 13 beer glasses on CL for a whole $20. There are some pretty cool ones and I'm pretty excited. Below is some beer glass porn for you all. From Left to Right: Schlitz Goblit, 2x John Smith, 2x Kwik Pils, Bass, Makers Mark with wax From Left to Right: Makers mark...

That's my first beer I ever made; a Brewer's Best Irish Stout. It's exactly one year old tonight and I'm enjoying the glass above. (I know beer glass not to style but that's my only glass big enough to hold a whole bomber) SWMBO is asleep and I'm just reflecting about how awesome this past...

In November I bought the ingredients to brew a Flemish red including the yeast WLP655 Belgian Sour Mix. I read in this months BYO issue that Wyeast Roselare blend is available starting in April. I know Roselare yeast is highly regarded as a wonderful yeast. My question is what are the major...

I was so excited yesterday to get my grains from UPS yesterday I decided I couldn't wait until Sunday to brew and I had to do it last night. It all went well until I needed to sparge. I drained my mash water, put in about 2 gallons for my first sparge and let it drain. So far so good. My...

I have acquired an IPA recipe from the owner of a brewery that I cannot buy where I live currently. He was amazingly helpful in that he just faxed me over the recipe sheet he uses and told me to bring some in when it's finished for a taste with him. The problem; it's a recipe for a 50bbl batch...

I washed my first liquid yeast following the directions on this site. It was really easy and I am now happy to have all this yeast I don't have to pay for in future batches. I didn't have any mason jars available so I stored the yeast in 6 beer bottles. My question is now that the yeast has...

I brewed this kit last week. I came with a 1lb bag of priming sugar. I've always bottled with 5oz packages so I was a little surprised. The instructions that come with the kit are general and not specific to the kit. I'm assuming that the kit wanted me to put in all the dextrose except for...

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/gms/801635802.html I am beginning to SLOWLY acquire AG and kegging equipment and was wondering if this would work for a MLT. I only plan on doing 5 gallon batches for the foreseeable future as there are so many recipes I'd like to make and not enough time to...

So after first brewing my Irish Stout on March 24th and being ever so patient I cracked open my first home brew after 12 days in the bottle. I was surprised as it seemed fully carbed and has the same iss and CO2 haze in the bottle. It pours a real nice dark brown with a quarter inch head that...