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I have been homebrewing for about a year now, so when the most beautiful women in the world agreed to marry me, I knew that I would be brewing something special for the wedding. Based on our religious views, we decided to have a handfasting ceremony (an old pagan tradition) instead of a church...

Thanks for the advice. I just finished bottling and to my amazement got it dead on for the number of bottles. Lifting the bucket up as high as I could in one arm and lowering the bottle & filler as low as I could in the other drained mostly everything and resulted in a full bottle. I was...

I did a search of the forum and found a lengthy discussion on the number of bottles a 5 gallon batch will make, and how it varies due to the amount of trub in left in the primary, how many hydrometer samples were taken, etc. The mathematical conclusion was that if there were no losses, then 5...

Cool, thanks for all the responses. I had originally thought of a best bitter, but I have a light ale in the secondary right now so i didn't really want to brew another light-type ale. I think I am gonna go ahead with the IPA. In fact I am gonna take a stab at the continual hopping to try...

I am still waiting to bottle my first batch of homebrew, and (like so many) already thinking about what to make next. A friend of mine is throwing his annual crawfish boil in early May and I would like to brew up something special just for the occasion. So, any suggestions for what beer goes...

2 weeks ago I brewed my first batch of homebrew (Light Ale from morebeer.com). I noticed that the original gravity was way below where they said it would be (1.025 instead of 1.043), but thought oh well. Anyway, within 12 hours I had a nice thick layer of krausen so I was on my way. After 3...