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i just brewed a kolsch, and am currently drinking the first one right now. my question is what commercial style beer is the closest to a kolsch? i know i have drank something similar to this before but can not put my finger on it.

i just wanted to thank all of yall that helped me out a few months back when i was first starting off brewing. i have now brewed 3 batches (belgian tripel, kolsch, and an american cream ale) and have also joined a local brew club called C.A.S.K. and i will be going to my first meeting this...

I have my belgian tripel in the bottles, I bottled it this past sunday. now my question is I know I should leave in the bottles until they get fully carbonated, but once they become fully carbonated can I put them all in the fridge to age them ?

I dont make wine, I make beer but a friend of mine made some "hooch" and I was wondering what the estimated alcohol content is of this stuff he made. he gave me a list of ingredients and they were 4 gallons of white grape juice, 1 gallon of water and 20 lbs of sugar. he said it taste like crap...

well i bottled my first batch yesterday and it was a blast but i screwed up big time. so everything was going as planned I had moved the beer to the bottiling bucket and had filled up 9 bottles and the guy who was helping me had capped all nine of them. when all of a sudden I realized " holy...

I just brewed a kolsch yesterday and it is in primary. i bought some sea dog blueberry the other day and my wife loved it, i was just wondering if the kolsch would be good to add blueberrys in the secondary and exactly how do you do it?

ok i started my second batch yesterday which is BB's kolsch, but when i was moving my first batch( a belgian tripel ) i noticed that it was not a full five gallons. i guess when i was brewing it some of the water evaporated and i didnt notice it. i had the 5 gallons of water already pre measured...

i have always heard that draft beer is stronger than bottled beer, is this true and why?

ok let me start off by saying that i know you do not have to use a secondary, but i want to;o) i have had my belgian tripel in primary for 16 days, the OG was 1.08 and i took a reading saturday that was 1.02 and today i took another reading that was also 1.02. so my question to yall is it ok...

as yall know i am brewing a belgian tripel, well my OG was 1.08 and that was last saturday, so today (eight days later) i took another reading and it was 1.03. when i took the lid off to take the sample there was a pile of sh*t around the top of the fermenter where you could tell it had risen up...

the batch i brewed saturday is in full force fermenting but smells freaking horrible, is this normal? it smells kind of like beer that has been sitting in the bottom of a toilet for a week

i brewed my first batch on Saturday and i think i killed the yeast by putting it into the wort before it was cool enough. but that isnt my question, i went to my local HBS today and was telling him about it and he said that it would be fine to add another pack of yeast as long as it was the...

i made my first batch last night and got done with it around 9 or so, when i woke up this morning i didnt notice any activity in the airlock. is this normal? how long before it should start showing signs of activity? if it doesnt in a certain amount of time what should i do?

as some of you know i am doing my first brew today and i have been reading this forum like all day lol but i have noticed alot of people talking about blow offs. I dont have onefor my primary all i have is the regular 6.5 gal bucket with an air lock. with brewing a belgian tripel should i be...

i am doing my first brew today, we are doing brewers best belgian tripel. im pretty stoked but nervous at the same time ;o) ive been "lurking" on this board for a few weeks and think I should be able to handle it. any tips or advice?

ok ive heard alot of people on hear talk about sanitizing with oxi clean or bleach. I have both available at the house so my question is which should I use? the other question I have is that when I rinse my equipment after sanitizing, would the water i use to rinse put bacteria back into my...

I am wanting to get into brewing my own beer but know very little about it so figured i would join to see if I could find out more before I really jump inot it to hard. i appreciate any advice