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I don't think 5 bottle will be enough to do even one 5gal batch of beer. And if it was enough you'd be switching bottles every 15-20mins, I'd imagine you'd blow through 2 just getting the water up to a boil. Plus the adapter will be hard to find, most of the ones I see are designed to go from...

Is it just me for does this tip not make any sense? I think the confusion, for me anyways is that Aroma, Bitter and Flavor aren't types of hops so much as they are when we add the hops to the boil. Adding "aroma" hops to the first half of boil doesn't make them aroma hops at all, they...

Any american citrusy hop goes well with Simcoe but I've made a American/UK hybrid IPA that blended Fuggles, Northern Brewer, Simcoe and Cascade hops and it was very very tasty.

Hands down, Pyramid Apricot Ale, tried it before and after they changed the name to "Audacious" either way it was just crap, people diss Sam Adam's Blackberry Wit, Cranberry Lambic and Cherry Wheat but I can at least finish a bottle of those, not "Audacious". That beer turned me off to fruit...

I would consider bleach bombing (few hour soak in bleach solution, i forget the concentration) it if it's plastic or glass, that'll guarantee everything is dead and won't give you the same problems anti-bacterial soap can.

They would only break if you crammed them tightly side by side but if they are just touching you should be fine.

Yea i do the same as you only I give it a slight whirl when I am about halfway through racking and once again before I start bottling. Although I once used a 5gal carboy to bottle and didn't really stir it at all and still got consistent carbonation so I dunno.

I have a case of 8oz Coca Cola bottles that I use for tasting bottles with my barley wine. They work great and the glass is thick as hell. They don't produce them anymore and I believe they are somewhat collectible now so I dunno how viable that is as small bottles.

It could be the brand of oxy caps you are using. I source mine from two different places and one of them suggest I warm them in hot water prior to capping to soften the seal. That said, I have never done that and both types of oxy caps have always provided consistent and full carbonation for...

If you are trying to add IBU then dry hopping won't do that for you. You'll need to boil a hop tea and add that to your beer. That can be calculated using beersmith.

Totally agreed, I don't think drinking IPA's with 70+ IBU's makes me awesome (there are plenty of other reasons I think I am awesome :P). Sometimes I am craving something really really bitter, and an American IPA satisfies that perfectly. Likewise when I am craving something smoother or more...

That's weird, I love cooking in general but I would never be able to make good Greek food if I hated cheese or good BBQ if I hated the taste of pork. How do you know if you are making good beer if you dislike beer in general?

For an American Wheat I suggest WLP320 American Hefe yeast or the WYeast equivalent. It will give you the cloudy "wheat beer" look and still ferment cleaner unlike a european hefe yeast, though in my experience will still provide some clove flavor (no banana). WLP051 or WLP001 both are not...

As long as you don't use a preservative or stabilizer then your beer will carb if you add priming sugar. Sometimes it takes longer (3 months for a 1.089 og beer for me) so be patient about it. I also leave my beers in primary for a month, and some of those go another month in secondary if I...

Yea Trader Joe's "Simpler Times" is strong too at 6.5% abv. Very surprising for a cheap brew that you can pick up for $3 for a 6er. Taste wise... well it's better then budlight.

Yea if you aren't getting good carbonation, you need to either increase your priming sugar amounts or just let them sit longer in bottles (most likely the later). Doing what you are doing is a good way to paint your walls with beer.

My mantra has always been, "when in doubt, start taking bets. because you can stand to make alot of money if you are right, if you are wrong, you'll be dead anyways and won't owe anyone anything" :D

ouch, that sucks. Did you taste it at least? Coming from a homebrew community I would have just tasted it at least, looks like some of my more careless brews where I kicked up a lot of sediment while raking to my bottling bucket.

I don't even think it's about cheap, if I can enjoy cold water on a hot day then anyone sure as hell can enjoy cold watery beer. I don't think it's that outrageous an idea, besides there are those sick people who like shaking the sh*t outta their sodas and making them flat before they drink...

I have a group of favorite for each style of beer, the only beer I would say is in no doubt the king of it's class is Alaskan Brewing's Smoked Porter, hands down the best smoked beer I had ever tried and one of the best porters I've tried as well. IPA's are hard for me to pick a favorite as...