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Well i've joined midwests beer of the month program and the past 3, plus 3 other beers i have brewed have been undrinkable. It has a strong odor and taste that i honestly have trouble describing believe me i have looked at the books and tried pinpointing the taste and smell there is just nothing...

So i'm making a second batch of Edworts and it is a little dry for everyone that has had it. And that got me to thinking. I'm currently making a persimmon wine and the instructions told me to buy some wine stabilizer. And to sweeten it to taste and then bottle. Is there anything wrong with using...

So about a month ago i had my old fuse box replaced with a circit box and i don't know to be happy or pissed :S I popped down a few times and noticed they were standing on a white bucket i didn't think of it until he was almost finished when i noticed it was my botteling bucket!!!! WTF???? He...

Went to get my CO2 tank filled this morning after running out xmas eve :( and talked to the tire shop owner about an extra. I nearly crapped myself when he said he can sell me a 5lb tank of Co2 for drumrole please..... $15 bucks :ban: I need to start saving up now for 2 more kegs!!

So I brewed a cream stout two weeks ago and I decided to rack it to a secondary which is not like me cuz I usually do a long primary and omit the secondary all together. Long story short it smelled pretty good but tastes really bitter I've had another one kinda taste the same and after a year it...

I did a full boil of Brewers best Hop nog IPA on saturday and did the gravity reading and i was at 1.60 (the goal was 1.50) I didn't add any water but just added the yeast anyway. Yesterday while showing some friends my house i showed the the beer and the whole airlock was gunked up and...

As a christmas present my brother is going to add a line to my kegarator :D my only problem is i can't find a website that i can send him to to get a "add a line" for a Keg conversion kit, i am looking for the shank, faucent, ball valve connections, tubing, a keg and a splitter. Thats it no...

So long story short i started growing my own hops this year because i love hoppy beers and on top of my trelis i put one of those solar lights on top of it. (You know to make sure the low flying aircraft are aware of my hops lol) Anyway i've been calling it my Beacon of Hop and i think i may...

I bought 4 kits from Midwest Supplies and bought the Wyeast propegator packets of yeast to go with it. Long story short, i was gone the entire weekend for business and did not get to store the yeast in the fridge until yesterday (it had arrived Friday and was put in the house with the ac...

I would like to carbonate my Edworts Apfelweizen with either brown sugar or honey to sweeten it up a bit, how would i go about that? Should i get a gallon of Applejuice and disolve 1/2 of brown sugar in it and add it like usual or do i just dump it into the bottleing bucket and give it a stir??

So I brewed a Hefeweizen last tuesday and stuck it down in my basement and after 4 days of no activity in the airlock i opened it up Friday evening. Upon opening it up it stunk...bad. It had a cidery smell to it and it tasted...Aweful, well i did a gravity reading and as i suspected it didn't...

So i put together an Edworts Apfelweizen and followed the directions to a t and used a 5 gallon glass carboy and I got one of those orange toppers for it instead of a traditional bung. Long story short its fermenting like crazy but no activity in the airlock. So obviously its not a perfect seal...

So i brewed a Hefeweizen on Tuesday and put it in my basement and today there is still no sign of active fermentation, so i moved it to a different section of basement thinking that might be the problem and i still don't have anything. I also started a Edworts Apfleweizen last night and there is...

I have a Brewers Best wheat kit laying around the house and i would like to add Blueberry to the beer to hopefully get my wife hooked on some of my homebrew :D I bought a 4lb bag of frozen blueberries and was thinking about adding 1 lb into the last 10 or 15 minutes of the boil and then add the...

So SWMBO isn't really a fan of the beer but really would like for me to make a rootbeer. I have a little extra money and decided to add 2 kegs to my system and dedicate one primarily for soda. My question is this, if i buy the gas splitter for 3 tanks will that be sufficiant enough for 2 beer...

I racked my beer to a secondary last night and i had a host of problems with it and long story short I had to restart the thing 10 or 12 times. So my question is my beer ruined due to oxigination? What does it take to oxiginate beer to the point its ruined? I really want this to turn out, its my...

I did my first AG which was a Liberty Cream Ale from Midwest Supplies. Everything went really well until I sparged the directions say to sparge 30-90 minutes for efficancy. Well i slowed down the imput as best i could but i sparged for MAYBE 10 to 15 minutes if i was lucky. At the end of my brew...

I planted my hops about 3 weeks ago and have yet to see any growth, when i dug them up they were WAY to deep so i replanted them higher, they still looked good and had no signs of decomposing or anything, since then (I did that about a week and a half ago, I still havn't seen anything, It has...

Been checking out the site for a few months and decided this would be great time to sign up. I'm getting ready to bottle my second batch of beer and can already tell this is going to be an obsession! Are there any other home brewers from the good old semo area out there? I figure with 7 wineries...