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I'll be in El Paso Tx this Saturday 10/10 for work, anyone recommend a good bar in the area? Someplace with some good brew. Due to work I haven't had a good beer in 4 months.. Any local insight is appreciated! SpamDog

Hello All, I have been working on finding/making a logo for my brewery "Penguin Brewing". I want something classy and simple that I can put on all my labels, I would still make individual labels for all my diffrent beers and meads and just have this logo on all of them somehow. Here are 2...

Ok, I need some help from someone.. I have a Maple Porter that started at 1.102sg and only got to 1.048sg. I have tried adding more yeast and even a wine/champagne yeast to no avail. As I don't have the option of finishing my kegging setup I was hoping someone with a kegging setup and bottle...

Well I just moved my maple porter to secondary.. according to my readings I only got like 60% Attenuation.. it is way sweeter than I expected.. so I figure my yeast pooped out.. but now the real question.. will I still be able to carb them in the bottle or should I add more yeast... and if I do...

Well.. Its that special time up here in Vermont where everyone has just finished making their maple syurp. So one of the guys I work with just gave me a gallon of Grade B (darker and more flavorful) syurp on the condition that he gets half the batch I make. So... He said he doesn't care what...

That right... After more than half a dozen brew sessions, I have settled on a name for the brewery (for now anyway.. who knows when the urge to change will strike) So "Penguin Brewery" it is... now just have to come up with a creative logo and maybe a theme or standard/template label set up...

Well just finished the label for our wedding mead.. thought I would share it here: So what do you think?? The words are still a little hard to read but they were alot worse before!! plus it is a little bigger when printed.. the words up top say "The path that leads to happiness is so narrow...

Well it was bound to happen... No more HBT.com at work... well.. no message boards of anytype actually.. which really kinda sucks cause I have so much down time at work where browsing the net is acceptable now I can't view any of the boards I like.. It is due to the computer policy... that...

Hello all, Looking for a little advice.. I am going to be making a brew for our family's Annual Labor Day End of Summer Bash. I am really new to brewing and sofar have only 1 beer under my belt.. the question is.. Most my family drinks BMC type beers tho a few will Drink Sam Adams Summer...

Okay! I finally did my first batch of beer yesterday.. I have been around here for a while.. did some meads and an Apfelwien batch.. but Yesterday, with the assistance of my brother-in-law-to-be I brewed up an Irish Dry Stout.. Don't remember all the details and don't have my notes with me but...

Okay.. I know the diffrence between a 2 micron and 1 and .5 micron stones (the size of the hole the o2 comes out of) But.. What diffrence does it make and what is better?? is one better for o2 and the other better for force carb co2?? FWIW I would be using the disposable Red Benz O2 tanks...

I can't decide if this seems like a waste of an otherwise good Grolsch Bottle.. Regardless.. I am probably going to order a set!! http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=1161 SpamDog

Does anyone here get their bottles from a Redemption center?? My local one only charges 7 cents a bottle and I can take whatever ones I want.. For those that do this how do you clean them?? Soak and then scrub like crazy?? I am trying to decide if I want to buy a case from them (for under 2...

Hey Everyone! Finally got my camera and computer talking to each other so here is a picture of my first mead ever! okay my first homebrew anything ever!! The little jar is the extra.. plan to use that to top off when i rack. The picture was taken a few days after I racked my final gravity...

Well I just racked my Cider/Cyser over to secondary.. Recipie as follows: 5# Honey Approx 1.5 Gal Fresh Pressed Cider 1 packet Red Star Monetracet (sp?) 5 Cinimon Sticks Small hand full of Cloves No name yeast nutriant and enegizer (followed instrutions on package.. i think .5 or .25 tsp...

Hey All, I know I have heard great things about Edwort's Apfelwein but I don't usually like very dry ciders/wines/meads and if SWMBO doesn't like it there is no way I go thru 5 gal before it goes bad.. Anybody think there is a problem making a 1 gal batch to test it out?? just use 1 gal...

Okay, I have narrowed it down to "Beer". I have untill now only done mead's and cysers ect.. I want to try my first brew but don't know much about the process and am in need of a recipie. The only requirement is that it doesn't have the "Bitter Beer Taste" as SWMBO refers to it.. I usually...

Well I finally got to making a mead!! all went pretty well for my first homebrew attempt.. I used 15lbs of honey for a 5.5 gal batch so I could get a semi-sweet mead. Starting gravity (after temp correction) was 1.095 which doesn't seem as high as I thought it would be.. I used Lalvin k1-v1116...

Hello all, I have been lurking here for the past few weeks so I thought I would sign up and say hi. Little about me.. I currently live in Southern New Hampshire but in a week or so I will be in Northern Vermont.. I am currently engaged with a wedding scheduled for next Oct. I have...