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So I've been searching and couldn't find the answer I was looking for. Maybe I wasn't using the right search criteria. Here's my question. Is it feasible to boil your wort down to 4.5 to 5 gallons, from 7 to 9 gallons, before doing your hop additions? This way i could cool it off with ice...

My kids go through about 5-7 gallons of milk a week. I plan on literally having a boat load of blackberries. I have several 1 gallon recipes I want to try and I would hate to have to but that many glass bottles. So... Can I use them? How long should I use them? I have a dark cool area so I'm...

So I heard on the radio the other day that AC/DC has a beer coming out. Apparently it's 5%abv. According to the DJ "that's alot!" Seriosly! Come on man.

Wait I mean making a dump. Lol Thinking about dumping my first AG batch. It's a stout at 6 abv. It has a strange smell that I can't really describe but it's enough that I can't stomach drinking it. I've never had an infected batch or even seen one (considering I know nobody personally that...

I have About 30 brews under belt all in the last 12 months and I have yet to have a single good wheat beer. 5 of these 30 were wheat beers. So when I say not good I mean the clove flavors. My understanding is that this taste comes from the yeast particularly hefe yeast. Well I've only done 2...

So what good bars are there to visit in mobile. Looking for something laid back with a good selection of beers

1. Do you buy ingredients in bulk? why or why not? 2. If bulk ingredients how do you store them? 3. Do you use strictly kits that you like? Do you pay a little more and do your own recipe? Or both? 4. If you do kits how many do you buy at a time? why or why not? Just trying to get...

These are 2.5 Gallons of purified water we use for baby formula. Next use will be small batch fermenters. Anybody else ever use these? looks like maybe a carboy bung will fit in the hole that the spout goes

I havent found anything here other than hops growing. Any body know any good sites for growing, harvesting, storing, toasting, roasting, grains?

Yesterday I was watching some of Northern Brewers Brewtv, and I watched the Dogfish head tours and Interviews. The Master brewer there mentioned briefly about a Real Breakfast Stout with real Breakfast flavors. ie; orange juice, oatmeal, pancakes, syrup, coffee, and bacon. Has anybody else...

So I ordered a kit from Northern. I got the "Denny's Wry smile" (Rye IPA) with the Dennys special yeast. Anyway so i got the package in and the yeast pack was swollen, it only had one small ice pack (good info or not IDK). So I put it in the fridge and I contacted them, they replaced it no...

So I'm wanting to do a RIS but only 2 gallons. Of all the forums and recipes I've read almost all of them call for 2 packs of yeast for 5 gallons. So my question is, since I'm only doing a half batch ( or there about ), do I only need to use one pack of yeast? Or is there something I'm not aware...

So Jackson is having its annual Top of the Hops fest. I've have never been because of military duties but this year I have the opportunity to go. So here's my questions: Has anybody ever been the last 2 years? Does anybody think it will be worth going this year with the Higher %ABW law in...

So has anybody ever thought about what you would do if there was ever some doomsday event and you couldn't get your stuff to brew? Like the other day I was watching a show on these people stockpiling stuff for doomsday. IE. food, water, fire making material. So i got to wondering, maybe I...

Does anybody actually enjoy this? Do you aim to get this flavor? I tryed my first hefe this weekend. I really did not enjoy it. Im not flushing it, but i didnt enjoy it. I'll know next time to not use my swamp cooler on a hefe.

This is my embarrassing whoops for this week. So yesterday was St. Patty's Day. My wife, our friends and myself all had a blast at the parade. We made a float for the third year strait, and partook in adult beverages. But anyway back on topic. So for the last 3 months I've just started...

...after only 6 days. I know, too early. But I do have a question. While tasting my beer it had the awesome beer taste, and awesome beer look, but after the awesome beer taste it had a strong alcohol taste kinda like a cheap wine aftertaste. So is this what everyone means by "green" beer...

My primary still has the smell in it from after my first batch. I'm about to do my second and was wondering if this would affect the taste? If so whats a good way to get rid of it? BTW I've already sanitized it twice hoping that would help but thats a no go.

I am completly new to brewing. I brewed my first batch last saturday and plan on moving it into my secondary this weekend. I want to do a second brew to do only in my primary fermentor. I've read some mixed opinions on the subject but I think I'm going to do it anyway. I ordered all my...