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I have had a 9% double IPA slow carbing in the keezer for about a week. I tested it and it is very green. I am sure that it will be fully carbed in another week because the carbonation is close. It has a great head on it, and it bubbles up pretty well already, but it really needs more time to...

I was just transfering my primary to secondary in the kitchen. My wife has a few hot pads as ART on the wall above my sink counter, you know the kind you place a hot pan on after cooking? these are some artsy fartsy ones she was given as a gift. Anyhow, one JUST FELL off it's hook as I was...

Dang, I sure have had lots of difficulties dealing with my first month of Kegging. Not with the Kegs mind you, but with the co2 and the regulators. Lost all my gas in one week from a leak on the first try, then after refilling this last weekend, Just one week later It is reading under 400 again...

SO the kegging process is going along very well. Or so I thought! I wanted to keep it simple and small... a 5 cubic foot Kenmore Sears Freezer to keep two cornelius kegs and a co2 tank. No problem... first keg is three weeks in, good beer all is going good. THEN i get my second corney and...

So i pitched a high gravity ale yesterday 1.080 with two packs of Wyeast 1056 american ale at 78F ... I left it in my basement overnight thinking temps would fall, but we had an unusually hot day in Seattle today and the temps are still at 76F on my primary after the first 24 hours. I...

Hey everyone, last week i was trying to figure out my loss of CO2 with my first kegged system. I had only had the gas on for two weeks before running out. I finally figured it out... and for you noob's like myself, it is such a simple mistake that I think most anyone could make. When i...

After slow force carbing my brew in the garage at 58 F for two weeks... i finally got my feezer set up and regulated the temps at 38 F. So i put the keg and CO2 in the Keezer for a day, and last night had a brew... all seemed good. However, in looking at my guages I noticed the high pressure...

I wonder why so many people would want to carbonate really fast in a keg? Won't the brew taste green and not be fully conditioned only a few days? I am just starting kegging, my first batches are in bottles... and have taken a while to condition, they tasted OK at three weeks in bottles...

I get my first corny keg kit today or tomorrow. However, my Freezer is being delivered with an electric range, so it doesn't arrive until the 13th! and my temp controller is being shipped right now. Question: I have an amber ale in secondary about a week. (two weeks in primary) It should...

For a simple set up, a small freezer to hold a couple cornies do you NEED to have a temp regulator on your freezer? Or will most freezers hold a basic temp and work ok without this extra item? Also what is a good temp to keep your freezer? I don't need a full on keezer set up just yet...

Ok about 5 weeks ago i started my first extract batch. Not trusting my city tap water i bought most of my water at the store. Not knowing any better i bought distilled water. I had about a gallon of spring water at home that i used, however the rest of it was all distilled. The process seemed to...

Noob here, three batches in process... I tasted my first batch just two weeks into bottling yesterday, it was drinkable & not bad, the carbonation seemed good... but it tasted more like a semi sour German beer then a red ale. I am guessing it had that hard to describe "GREEN" taste you all talk...

I saw this recipe somewhere on the web a while ago and remember writing it down on some scrap paper. Now i can't find the where it is on the web. I am only a three batches into home brewing, so by all means a noob. Most of my recipes were right out of my LHB store. My favorite beers are...

hey everyone... Noob here, three batches in and hooked! In May I plan to get a corny keg kit and small freezer to be able to have the goods on tap at home. In fact I found out a few of our local brewerys here around Seattle will even fill em for you between home made batches for only $55...

So get this... two extract batches in, my first brews are doing very well. #1 is an 12 day old red ale, in secondary... #2 (an IPA) freshly bubbling in primary only 48 hours in. But this is the crazy part... My wife calls me from her photography group tonight, turns out one of the guys...

Hey everyone, Another noob here working on my first two batches. I racked my first batch to a secondary this weekend after 10 days of primary. One day later the color has changed from a carmel color all the way through to carmel in the lower half and a darker coffee looking color on the...

Noob her, working on my first batch. I am wondering if oxy caps are worth the extra cost? The local homebrew shop has them, says they absorb oxygen and that they reduce off flavors from oxygenation.. also help the beer last longer. Are they really that much better then the normal ones?

Hey Everyone, I am new to this brewing thing... just started my first batch of red ale from a kit on Saturday. Everything seemed to go along pretty well. Granted i had no idea just how long it took to get that 3 gallons to boil, but I finally made it through the long process. To my...