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Hi, thanks for responding ahead of time. I am just setting up for first AG and had a quick question. After I mash for about an hour, I take the grains out and put them in the next part (false bottom.) I don't use the water from the mash right. I just use about 6-6.5 gallons of 170F water and let...

If anyone has a Sports Authority around them (i live in souther california), they are blowing out their turkey fryers. You get the burner (about 30k btu), stand, and large 7.5 gallon kettle (it's pretty chinsey though) for $23. Not bad, I picked one up the other day and it worked great. Not as...

Howdy all. I just made my first lager. I have been trying IPA's but since I just got a project fridge, decided to try something new. Anyway, my OG was a little low (compared to the normal 1.055-1.065 for IPA's) at 1.035. My ingredients were: 7 lbs. Pale Malt Extract (DME) 1/2 lb. Cara-Munich...

Do you guys/ gals think this is a good deal? (ebay item# 290069459866). It looks really good to me but just wanted to know what you think as I have a cheap WalMart pot now and would'nt mind upgrading for full wort boils and eventually AG:rockin:

Hi everyone, I just had a really long post about some trouble with beer being to sweet (all my batches) except for the one when I used some DME. I was hoping (hopping hehe...ok stupid) that someone had a good recipe (thats hard to mess up really bad) for a fairly new brewer. I want to see if I...

Hi all. Alright, damn it!! I have made about 6 batches of beer since moving from my crappy little MR. Beer kit and have slowly accumulated a lot of beer making devices. I even got a keg system (which I just tapped for the first keg batch) and, surprise...it still taste sweet. All my batches have...

Hi all. I guess this is the place for this post. I was wondering (since I just got my first keg set up) if anyone has tried to make some different carbonated drinks. I was thinking of trying a couple of bottles of vodka mixed with about 4 gallons of koolaid and carbonating. Just for fun. It...

:( When you guys carbonate with CO2, how do you do it. I am doing my first batch and have it at about 48degrees and 19lbs of psi. It looks like some people just do it at serving pressure. By the way, what is the best serving psi? Thanks

Hi everyone. I was recently at my LHBS and found a nice, heavy plastic conical fermenter (7.5gal $200). After hearing all the advantages of a conical I want to buy one (and many, many other things). If you use one, would you buy it again or just stick with buckets? I just switched to kegging...

Hi all. 2 quick questions. Just got my first keg setup from my LHBS. Praticed shooting my cat with water outside to get all the adjustments dialed in. Got my CO2 chart and am picking up a basic fridge to get the ball rolling this weekend. Anyway, my question(s) is/are 1. What is all this talk of...

Hi all. I was going to buy my first corny keg today and of course..a question popped in to my tiny brain. Do you guys rack from your secondary fermentor to the bottling bucket then the keg? Or do you just go from secondary to the keg and put in priming sugar there? Also, can someone remind me...

I recently asked for some advice on here and a few have mentioned that I should make a hop tea and then add it to my wort. I am a little confused as to how I would do this. Does anyone know. Would'nt this drastically change the recipe because usually I steep grains then add my extract and bring...

:confused: Hi everyone. I have been brewing my own beer for a few months now after moving up from Mr. Beer. My first batch came out pretty good but since then, my last 3 batches have been to sweet. It is almost like the yeast stopped early. My newest batch (still in primary) is much more...

I was thinking about just going to my lhbs and just buying a few different grains and hops and malt and just trying something completly off the wall. What compels me to take such chances in life? I live on the edge. Has anyone ever tried this? Did it turn out good?

hi everyone. I just made a midwest Ocatane IPA and my starting gravity is supposed to be 1.064-1.068. My actual reading was 1.072 (at 60 degrees F exactly). I am fairly new to using a hydrometer and I am probably worrying for nothing but does this seem to high. I did inject a little O2 into the...

Hi everyone. I just made my first starter batch of yeast. I usually just smack, wait and pour the yeast in. I am using british ale yeast (liquid) and I just wondered how long can I leave the starter batch? Can it go a few days? I am waiting for some new equipment and thought it would be here...

Hi everyone. Thinking of going to kegging because I am tired of cleaning bottles. I have a small Sanyo frige in my room (to ward off sneaky room mates) and I was wondering if anyone had made a homemade kegerator with this small fridge. I think it can fit a 5gal corny but not sure. If anyone has...

Hi all. Well UPS still cannot find my shippment that has my new oxygen (aeriation) stone. I have my tank, batch of beer and everything ready to go. Can I just aeriate my putting a piece of (sanitized) tubing at the bottom of my wert and turn the gas on low for a minute. I think if I do this and...

:drunk: Hi everyone. I picked up a small bottle of 02 and an aeriation stone (which will be here as soon as UPS learns how to read a map correctly). I was just wondering when should I aeriate. I know it is after my wort is cooled and mixed in with the rest of my clean water in the primary...

Hi, another question for the board. Is a full wort boil simply using a huge pot and making all 5 gallons (or whatever your final amount maybe) of wort mixed with all the water you will use for the batch? Meaning that you will cool your whole batch to pitching temp and then just put it in the...