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I happened across a little can of extract called "Bru-Mix Pale" that appears to have been made here in Ontario, Canada. It looks to be roughly half the size of the cans of liquid malt extract (LME) that I'm used to seeing, and roughly half the price. Surprisingly the recipe didn't call for 2x...

I showed my neighbour how to make a LME kit beer on the weekend. It was our first nice weather and I could brew outside, bringing the full 6 gallons to a boil. It was also the first test of my immersion chiller, which performed impressively (much better than the snowbank I used in January!)...

Here's a question for those who've brewed more extract kits than I have... I was at my LHBS and bought a very cheap can of Cooper's Stout. It was on sale, when I turned over the can I saw the expiry was November '08. I mentioned this, but the person in the store said that date didn't really...

I had a can of Brewmaker High Gravity Victorian Bitter that was a month away from its "best before" date, so I figured I'd give it a go (I know what you're all thinking... I was thinking it too, but I decided to give it a go anyway). To make things even more unpredictable, I threw in maybe...

A couple of nights ago I attempted my first all-grain batch... Because I haven't got the ball-valve plumbing sorted out for my cooler mash tun, I decided to go the brew-in-a-bag (BIAB) route. I've read a lot of posts about it, and it seemed like others have had some success with it... So...

Hey everyone, Just over a week ago I brewed my first kit batch... It seemed to go pretty well. I used chlorine bleach to sanitize and I rinsed a lot, just because that was all I had at home. My biggest problem was getting it to cool fast enough. Even in the water bath with ice, it took...

Hi everyone, just popping my head in to say "Hi" from Toronto, Ontario, Canada! I just started my first batch from a kit on the weekend, I am happily listening to the bubbles coming through the air lock now... It's a Munton's kit, but already I'm anxious to start working with grains! This...