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so, i was originally planning to let my beer (spiced belgian) age in primary for an extra week or 2 after hitting my fg. hit my fg on 11/16, was gonna bottle on 11/23. but here it is 2 weeks later, and my beer is still sitting in the bucket. i haven't wanted to open and check it until I...

even though I missed the mark for my OG somehow, hit my fg perfectly at 1.016... The recipe wanted me to add cinnamon and ginger to secondary for a week, but I decided to skip that because I wanted something that would be drinkable a bit sooner (ginger takes a while to mellow out so i've been...

pitched at ~75 wed night, 1.062og. started full force after roughly 8hrs. I noticed a LOT of airlock activity, and I know that's not USUALLY a good indicator, but I know my setup, and it's usually pretty close, and my fermenter temps were roughly 2deg above ambient, so, 69-70. I noticed this...

this was not my first brew by any means, but it's been a year or so since I made anything, and in actuality, i've only done 3, one of which was a BIAB partial mash which failed epically. this was an extract w/ specialty that my lhbs helped me put together from some old byo magazines. expected...

that I made 3 YEARS AGO. I was afraid something would have gone sour, but threw em in the fridge for a few hours, cracked one open, and it's absolutely delicious. tastes just like slightly dry, lightly carbed, apple juice. and 2 bottles later, I realized I forgot how much of a punch it packs...

I went to my lhbs and he had a whole bunch of old BYO magazines, I found a recipe I liked: 4lb amber dried extract 3lb light extract syrup 1lb wheat dried extract 2oz special b 10.5aau perle .35oz perle .35oz goldings .11oz star anise .04oz seeds of paradise .42oz bitter orange peel...

I haven't been able to brew in a really long time now (over a year), but I'm looking to get back into it. I wanna do a spiced holiday ale, extract w/ specialty grains is fine. I don't have the facilities to do AG right now. Anyone have some recipe suggestions? I'm tempted to just walk into my...

for some genius reason, I saved 2 bottles of my first beer (an autumn amber ale, which was dang good) and let them age for a year, mostly cuz i forgot about them. I just opened one: and of course the cat had to come see what was going on but, it was DISGUSTING, reminded me of how stale...

I was planning on bottling this weekend some day, the beer has been in primary for 2 weeks, the 2nd one was spent dry hopping. is there any reason why I can't rack to my bottling bucket and let it sit there for a few days before bottling? or should i just leave well enough alone

so, this IPA i got going in my Mr. Beer right now is already a huge hit, and it hasn't even finished dryhopping or conditioning yet. I'd like to make it into a full AG batch so i can always have some of it around. this is the recipe I used for reference: 2.5gal batch 4# 2 row mashed at 158*...

the small IPA that i've got going in my Mr. Beer just kicked into warp drive (i pitched a vial of WLP-001 tuesday night) i'm glad i drilled the lid for an airlock on it, i had to take it out and put a blowoff on it. I heard the air lock bubbling last night, and came out to see a bit of...

does anyone here know what kind of yeast it is that comes with the Mr. Beer kits? i was considering using it to make a small back of hard apple cider or something of the sort

i just bought this thick bottomed SS 20qt pot yesterday for doing my small partial mash, and it honestly wasn't cheap, but it was all i could find. what i'm wondering, is when i start going for full (5ish) gallon batches, can i still use this 20qt pot for something? i've also got a 32qt...

Getting gifted a Mr. Beer for christmas re-sparked my interest in the hobby, but i wasn't going to use the basic kit that came with it, after talking with a couple people around here i decided to go for an IPA, using 4lb 2 row, the hopped LME that came with the kit, 1oz simcoe @20min, and 1oz...

I've already got a pretty good setup for 5gal batches, and when asked what i wanted for xmas, i told my parents beer ingredient kits. somehow that became a Mr. Beer kit. Never seen or used one before, when i started the hobby i just jumped into doing full boils w/ extract and specialty grains...

i really thought i had drank it all, but when I finished packing up to move last night, i found a case of unlabeled filled 12oz bottles in the basement closet, cracked one open and i knew exactly what it was. after aging for a year in a closet, it's incredible, there's so much more depth to the...

a friend of my family always gave us a few bottles of what he called "apple jack" it tasted just like sweet cinnamon apple cider, and a few glasses of it would have you flat on your ass. I have since learned that it's not apple jack (which is freeze distilled hard cider), and after polishing off...

I haven't been able to make a batch in almost a year now between moving, school, work, too hot, etc. the house I'm in right now doesn't really have air conditioning where i'd be letting the wort ferment, it runs an average of roughly 72*F (sometimes a bit more, and rediculously humid, so swamp...

I've done a lot of reading and preparing for this day since i brewed my first batch 3 weeks ago, and just have a few questions. what is the best way to sanitize my bottles? I had read that I could just stick them in my dishwasher on the sanitize setting? and as for storing the bottles for the...