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Brewed an English bitter last night in our new 10gal kettle from Homebrewstuff.com, chilled the wort down to 60*F with our new counterflow chiller from Dudadiesel.com. Water temp going in to chiller was 50*F, wort temp was 200*F. It was our first try with the chiller, so we racked it into a...

Brewing a Harpoon IPA clone today, an all grain kit, from Austin Homebrew. Forgot to make my starter last night so it'll only be on the stir plate for maybe 4-8 hrs. Is this going to be enough time for the yeast to get up and go to work or should I be ok? Yeast is Wyeast 1098 British Ale.

Doing a clone recipe from Austin Homebrew, Midnight Sun Arctic Devil barleywine. Recipe calls for 1lb of brown sugar. My question is if we can add the brown sugar at flameout with the liquid extract, or should it be added earlier? Never used brown sugar in a beer so was wondering how to add it...

Just wondering what is the preferred method of storing hops. Fridge? Freezer? We bought a barleywine clone recipe from AH and the hops are in those little vacuum sealed bags so I just threw them in the freezer. Does it matter how they're stored?

Will this size tank be big enough to force carb 2 cornys and serve them too? Or are we better off getting a bigger tank? Don't want to get stuck with an empty co2 bottle in the middle of a keg.

Was wondering if it would be beneficial to inject O2 into the wine before adding the yeast? I do this with making beer to help oxygenate the wort before pitching the yeast and was wondering if I could do the same with wine.

Recently got a stir plate, 1L flask, 2 L flask and other crap to make starters. Will the 1" stir bar work good enough in the 2L flask to stir the starter mix? Tried both with water just to see how big of a vortex it makes and needless to say it was bigger in the smaller flask. Do I need a 2"...

Was somewhere on the forum today and found this recipe but for the life of me cannot remember the thread or the op. Had a question about the hops, but really just want to find the thread again. Anyways here it is: 3.3 lbs xtra light lme 3.3 lbs wheat xtract lme 1 lb wheat dme .25 lb...

How much do I use per gallon? All I have is those little measuring spoons. Is 1 tablespoon too much? Too little? Just right? Why don't they put little scoops in the jug?

Is there a trick to getting this thing to work? The spring is all the way in, but the solution only barely spits into the bottle? Never had this problem before so I need some help or I'm going to blow a gaskets so help me God.

My girlfriend and I really like Old Foghorn barleywine by Anchor. We also want to make a spiced Christmas beer for next year, so I was wondering if this style would take the spices well or not? We've been trying to find a clone kit but have struck out so far. Can anybody help us?

Brews this and a caribo Slobber couple weeks ago. The hefe is reading 1.010 right now, is that the range of where it should finish? All NB's website gives is the OG.

Will be bottling our NB Hefeweizen next weekend and was wondering how much priming sugar to use. How much can I use to really carb it up but won't have little bombs in the basement? Would 2 cups be too much?

I'm finally going to make starters for my beer. Is a stir plate a necessity for aeration or is it more a convenience? Couldn't I just use my O2 that I use on my wort?

Well we got a little ambitious yesterday and decided to do 2 extract kits yesterday. Bavarian Hefeweizen and Caribou Slobber from NB. The wheat beer is happily chugging away at 66* in the basement. The Slobber kit is still in the kettle on the burner on the porch. We thinks that if your going to...

Brewing this one as I type. Anyone brew this and have any tips/ pointers on when to add the extract? Recipe has 1lb dry and 3lbs liquid. I was thinking adding dry at beginning of boil and the liquid at last 15 min or flameout. Should I use whirlfloc at the last 15 min of boil in a weizen? This...

Does anyone use their bottling bucket as a fermenter? Besides the spigot possibly leaking, does anyone see a downside to this?

Ok, so my girlfriend and I are making wine, bottled our first batch, Black Raspberry Merlot, this past Sat. It taste great!! My question is, I just put in the primary a white cranberry Pinot Gris, and while checking contents of the kit, the isinglass packet was pretty cloudy. Is that normal? The...

Just got back into brewing, my girlfriend and I are making wine first then some beer in the next week or so. Bought a wine making kit and the mentioned cleaner, which the shop owner said cleans AND sanitizes. Is this true? No mention of sanitizing on the label or LD's website. Anybody have any...