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After a quick search I couldn't find anything, so I thought that I would ask. My first brew was a can and kilo Munton's Wheat beer kit that my SWMBO bought for me. She didn't know the monster she was creating :cross:. After I finished fermenting it, I concluded that it wasn't the worst beer I...

So I've been reading a lot about this beer lately and I want to try it, but I don't have access to it here. So, does anyone want to trade with me for it? The only thing I can think of that I have that someone with access to moose drool wouldn't have is DFH. Ask me and I might be able to get it.

I've been searching for a few days, and I haven't found anything that really helped me out with this. A little background: I've been getting into session beers for whatever reason, so I thought that I would try to brew up a good one myself. Additionally, I was drinking some wine the other...

Not really HOW do they make them, but how do they get them out? I understand that if you brew a bigger beer at home, then you have to let it sit for months before it's good enough to start drinking, but I'm drinking a 10.2% right now, and it really doesn't have the same amount of alcohol...

I have a keezer with one regulator connected to a 3 way manifold with 3 check valves. All of the valves are open, and two of the kegs connected to the manifold are deliciously carbonated and enjoyable. However, the other keg, that I put in there about 2 weeks before the other two, hasn't...

Hey all, I'm considering switching to outdoor brewing, but I have a few questions. First of all, I want it to be outside for a multitude of reasons, and as such I'm going to need an extension cord (I live in an apartment). It needs to be about 35 feet for each element, so for that reason I...

I'm planning on brewing a belgian dark strong ale, and probably bulk aging it for a month or two after the initial 3 week primary. Problem is, I only have 6.5 gallon primary fermenters, and I don't usually use a secondary for anything. I guess I have 4 options here, which one is the best? 1...

So for some reason today, I was inspired to try something new. I recently got a french press so naturally I've been trying to devise ways to incorporate it into the brewery. I was thinking about the ideal coffee grain to water ratio, when it struck me that I should put some barley in here and...

So I had a recipe and ingredients for an American wheat that I planned on brewing up sometime soon. This weekend, the planets aligned and I'll be able to brew both today and tomorrow, but the problem is that I already have an American wheat on tap. Since I have all the ingredients other than the...

I plan on brewing after I get of of work this afternoon, and in order to get the upper hand on it later, I decided to try and mill my grain beforehand. I usually condition my malt, and today was no different, so I did 2% by weight added water. To my dismay, my drill died on me before I could...

I purchased a bunch of hops recently, and I thought what better way to use them than in an IPA? Here's a recipe that I came up with, and I just wanted it to run it by everyone to make sure that there was nothing grossly wrong with it. I've had a lot of citrusy IPAs, but for this one I wanted to...

I can't come to a decision on this for myself, so I thought that I would ask the hive mind. The situation is this: I have been brewing on the stove top indoors, but I have recently decided to make the jump to outside brewing with propane. However, I have a bit of a dilemma in deciding where...

I need help now! The sparge water is heating as I type this. I made a sour mash on Thursday evening and opened up the cooler for the first time today. I have no idea what it's supposed to smell like, but it smells and tastes vinegary, which makes me think acetobacter. It was also room...

If anyone has an extra one laying around I'd be willing to take it off your hands. I'm having a heck of a time sourcing one elsewhere for a reasonable price, and I can't get those posts off without one.

Another thread on this forum made me think of this. What is the worst thing that you have ever made? I'm not talking about infections or anything like that. Just something that you thought was a good idea, that you made and totally sucked. For me, it was a licorice sweet stout. It was...

When I get to my apartment this afternoon, I expect to see 4 shiny kegs greeting me. However, there is not going to be anything else present along with them, because I ordered those things from a different company. My question is, if I don't have CO2, gas line, disconnects, etc. is there...

So I decided that this weekend I want to throw together a quick, half batch that I can keg up when all my stuff arrives. The notion of a lightly soured brown ale seemed pretty good to me and SWMBO, so a ketucky common seemed in order. I snatched up a recipe from one thread and halved it. My...

Let me start off by saying, I usually don't take gravity readings usually before I'm done bottling. My OG on my batch, a licorice sweet stout, was 1.067 for a 5.5 gallon batch. I left the beer in the primary for 3.5 weeks. I didn't have lactose to add to my batch at boil time, so I added 1...

So last night I bottled a batch of an amber ale that I brewed about a month and a half ago. I could never find the time to do it, and now I know why. I dry hopped this batch, and didn't want to get the hop particles in my beer so I used a nylon paint strainer to keep the particles out while...

Random thought this morning: On a trip to Boston recently I had a chance to visit the Harpoon brewery. They told us about how they used the same yeast strain for all of their beers, which I had expected. However, when I started to taste them I noticed something strange that all of them had in...