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wow, thanks, I will have to look into that. :)

wow, thanks.

I found a place today that sells whole hops cheap $4 per ounce $15 for 4 ounces. www.rootsdown.ca

Where do my fellow Canadian brewers go for cheap hops?

I go to the galdstone location. I'm making an irish red this weekend, I need crystal malt, they only had grains but they let me grind the grain there for free. I don't know if they would charge if I ground 5 kilos worth, but I don't think think it would be much.

I don't know how much you pay now but I go to defalco's in ottawa. defalcowines.com The dme prices don't seem to be bad but the hop prices are high. I live near gananoque and make a trip to Ottawa once a week.

Thanks, I've been using 3/4 cup of corn sugar/ 5gal batch. I was told by my LHBS this was standard.

I have bottle three batches of beer recently and they are all tasting the same. I can't seem to put my tongue on it (lol). The oldest batch has been bottled two months with plenty of carbonation but when the smell seems fine but the taste is either tinny or very bitter. The beer is a blonde...

Last night was my first extract brew. I've been using no boil kits for a while now and wanted to switch to extract. I boiled the water and removed it from the heat to at the dme. As I started to add the dme I touched the corner of the bag to the element and poof up goes the bag. Slight...

wow, thanks for the quick reply. Good to know, I will the plastic out of the fridge and put in the glass.

I have recently started drinking some of my last batch of brew after three weeks in the bottle. The beer in the glass bottles are great, the ones in the pepsi bottles are flatter and have an off taste. I was wondering if the plastic bottles have absorbed some of the pepsi flavour and is now...

I'm an Environmental Science grad currently working in retail.

I'm in Eastern Ontario, near Kingston.

Thanks everyone, I think I will stay with beer kits for now and make a wine kit for Christmas gifts. When I get more comfortable with the brewing/wine making I hope to start using all of the carboys for wine from scratch, and doing ag brews.

Hello all, First time poster here, and I have recently gotten back into the brew world. I've been looking for some equipment and found 5 cases of wine bottles, a floor corker, 2 5 gallon carboys, 4 4 gallon carboys, a plastic primary, two racking canes and hoses, corks, shrink caps and a...