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i looked at the first few pages of the DIY forum for any information on parts to convert my mini fridge into a lager fermenter, but didn't find anything. i've seen equipment before that allows you to control the temperature of a fridge. i was wondering if there was an economical gadget that...

i looked at the first few pages of the DIY forum for any information on parts to convert my mini fridge into a lager fermenter. i've seen equipment before that allows you to control the temperature of a fridge. i was wondering if there was an economical gadget that would work for a mini-fridge...

i heard a rumor that Bells isn't going to be distributed anymore to the chicago area/illinois. has anyone else heard this or know more about it?

just brewed an oatmeal stout extract kit from austin homebrew. followed the directions to a T. this is my 5th batch, so i'm pretty confident i can follow the procedures correctly. the kit suggests that i should hit an OG of 1.053. my OG when i just tested some after i sent it to the primary...

Hey all, my ingredients came in today for the posted Imperial Hellfire 06.06.06 Ale. I have a few questions before i brew. First of all... i got the ingredients for an extract recipe. it called for 5lbs of light DME. for all the extract kits that i have bought and made so far, they all...

hey kiddos... we traditionallly do a power hour on firday nights, and tonight is our firday start of spring break, so there aren't a lot of pachos at the abrs tonights. but i decidied to call it an easy night tonight after our power. so where do i find myself? none other than on these stupid...

hey guys, has anyone ever encountered any problems with removing the labels from bottles when there is beer inside? my roommate just bottled his newcastle, and all the bottles have the old labels on them. is it okay to use oxyclean in the appropriate amount and submerge those bottles for...

hey all... my roommate has made this supposed mistake twice now. we're trying to up our bottle count, and i've always understood that the only bottles we can use are the standard 'pop-top' bottles. not the twist offs that the big breweries use. he just went to buy some beer, and got some JWD...

how long does it take to complete a batch of oatmeal stout and weizenbock? i'm interested in brewing these but am crunched on time, and dont want to move them while they are in the primary/secondary. how long does it take to finish one of these styles from brewing, fermenting, secondary...

i'm interested in brewing an oatmeal stout and a weizenbock from AHS. i'm sure i could email them on how long they take from brewday to bottles to drinking... but i thought i'd ask how long you've all had to wait for these two particular styles. i know that beer with higher OG's and higher...

EDIT: updated labels! here they are, i took the suggestions the you all gave, and updated the look to them. (plus one of my roommates said the old ones sucked, but these aren't changed because of him, they're changed for me):rockin:

i need some help here with a reuseable or disposable grain/hop boiling bag. i bought a nice 8.5" x 9.5" bag from austin homebrew, and used it once. my roommate also used it once and mistakably and unknowingly threw it away (idiot). unfortunately we did not realize this mishap until after we...

In your opinion, what is the worst beer commercially sold in the US? Please mind you that I'm from the Midwest and a lot of what i consider worst beer is from personal experience. 1. Miller High Life 2. Natty Light 3. Milwaukees Best 4. Keystone Light 5. Bud Light

i bottled an Irish Red Ale last week and stuck a 6pack in the fridge this morning. This evening i opened one up, got a nice "chsshhh" and poured out clearer than i expected. not a lot of head, but i poured conservatively down the side of my pilsener glass. my only negative comment is that it...

just a quick noob quesiton on yeast varieties. if a beer kit has different selections of yeast (ie Austin Hombrew Supplies offering 3 or 4 different kinds of yeast like dry, Wyeast, and Whitelabs). is it safe to assumet that if one of the types of yeast is an ale yeast, that all the types of...

i bottled my Irish Red Ale a few days ago. and i checked on them today and noticed that settled at the bottom of the bottles was a white sedimentary substance. what could this be? and is it supposed to be there. i thought about it maybe being the sugars or yeast that are still in the beer...

so i'm in the process of bottling my first batch, and the priming sugar is already set. i THOUGHT i had all the bottles i needed. but after a closer look, not all the bottles fit. my red baron capper doesn't grab a hold of the lip in the neck for every bottle. now i am stuck with a half...

i checked my beer today for FG, and it hasn't changed much at all from when i checked it after the inital 'boom' of fermentation. its been in the primary for a week now. OG was 1.038, FG after the initial boom was 1.018, and now the FG is 1.016. i do not have a glass carboy, but i'm concerned...

the extract kit that i just used came with a muslin bag for the grains. i ended up reusing it for the hops as well. but i am interested in a reuseable nylon bag. what size should i be interested in for 5 gallon extract batches. i went to austin homebrew and they have a multitude of sizes...