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So I made 5 gallons of root beer and am loving it. However, I put it in one of my corney kegs and carbed it. Now some friends want to get some so I am wondering what would be a good (meaning cheap) way to get it into a two liter soda bottle. Can I just pump it out of the picnic tap and cap it...

So I am looking to make my wife some Ginger Ale and my son some Rootbeer, but I do not want to use sugar. Has anyone tried the recipes listed here on HBT with Splenda or Stevia? Both my wife and me are Diabetics, so I am looking for an alternative for the sugar. I have read that Splenda can be...

So my friend is having a True Blood party for the premier episode coming up and has asked me to bring some of my beer. Now I have the stuff to make an Irish Red, but I thought I would like to have it look more like blood red. So I figured I would add food coloring to it. I think I can just rake...

Well yesterday I emptied my first keg. It was a good IPA. It's life was short, but was loved by me day in and day out. I will miss that little IPA. Let's all have a moment of silence please. . . . . . . . . . . Ok now on to finish off the Hefe in the other keg. :mug: -Stanley

Not sure if you guys/gals have seen this, but Widmer Brothers has a new site out. It's pretty nice. They are showing what malts and hops each of their beers use. I will certainly be trying to clone some of theirs.

So I am going to be building my Mash Tun out of a round cooler and I was looking at it and remembering how the books say you have to account for lost liquid in your equipment. One part that I can see having wasted liquid is in the Mash Tun due to the manifold at the bottom not being able to get...

Hey all, some friends of mine have a band and they just got the final version of their first video. Let me know what you think. http://youtu.be/ktRQ11yRpdI?hd=1 -Stanley p.s. how do you embed videos here?

I am planning on moving on to AG soon, but I do not want to go to 10 gallon or even 5 gallon rigs. I am looking at doing 3 gallon batches to start and if need be I can always save up for a nice single tier build. Right now I am doing 5 gallon extract and mini-mash batches and that is great for...

So, yesterday I brewed my first Hefeweizen kit. It was AHS Anniversary Hefeweizen. I made my immersion chiller earlier in the morning and cooled the wort in an ice bath with the immersion chiller in the wort. Took about 20 mins to cool the wort. Much better than my last batch (IPA) that took...

So I have live in the Tampa Bay area for about 15 years now and finally got around to visiting the TBBC. Man what was I thinking waiting so long. Had dinner with the wife there tonight and tried 4 of their beers. Great food and great beer. Ended up leaving with a gallon of the Worthog Weizen...

So I am reading Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation and I am loving it. I have learned so much already. I have read Palmers How to Brew as well. For my next book I am looking to read about malts and adjuncts. Is there even a book that talks that in-depth on malts? I found Beer...

So I finally have my 5# CO2 bottle filled and I got my bucket that is holding my Pale Ale and put it on my freezer to get some height. I placed the keg on the ground and put the racking cane that came with my kit into the bucket and the hose end into the keg. So it turns out that my racking cane...

Well not me though. I have spent all morning trying to track down someone that can fill a 5# CO2 tank and no one is open on weekends that can do it. I talked to a guy at Sports Authority earlier this week and he said they could do it. However they can only fill up to about 30 ounces for things...

So I contacted my water supplier (the county) and they sent me the information in this image. So I have looked at both BeerSmith and the EZ Water Calculator Spreadsheet 2.0, but they are both looking for Magnesium and Sodium and I am not chemist so I am not sure if what they are looking for is...

I was wondering what the shortest length of time a recipe (see below) would have to sit in a fermenter. From what I have read the main fermentation takes place in about 3-5 days +/- some days for the fermentation process to start. So the rest of the time in the fermenter, such as leaving it...

SWMBO likes Lord Chesterfield from Yeungling, but I am at a loss for being able to brew something close. At this point I am unable to do AG brewing due to space limitations. So I guess my next step is to see if you guys/gals know of something that has about the same taste/bitterness/hoppiness as...

So in my last batch for aeration I took a wire whip from the kitchen drawer, sanitized it of course, and whipped the wort till it started to foam up a bit. Is this a good way (meaning without buying an oxygen tank or fish tank aerator)? At what point do you know that it's aerated enough? In...

So I am looking to keg my next batch, which is already in the fermenter as of Saturday 3/14/11. I would like to put my kegs in a freezer and use a Digital Temperature Controller to adjust when the freezer is on. My assumptions on this are that I set the control temps, both min and max, and the...

Well first off I have to say thanks to everyone on this forum. The questions I wanted to ask, but was able to find that someone else asked already. The questions I did ask and were promptly answered. And to all who have posted their methods, errors and successes. Thanks for all of that. So...

I am looking for a recipe (preferably a mini mash) for Lord Chesterfield from Yuengling. My wife likes to drink it occasionally and it's the only one so far that she seems to like. If not a recipe for it, how about something very close to the taste and bitterness? TIA