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Hello. I was looking at info on pressure fermenting and serving from the same vessel via a floating dip tube. I originally was looking at the Fermzilla, but it's a space hog and would pretty much dominate the 4.4 cu ft fridge I plan to buy, so I decided to try kegs as I've seen that 2 cornies...

I started a wheat beer about a month ago. I wanted to try adding fruit for the first time. After researching I decided to take a few pounds of frozen strawberries, thaw and refreeze it a couple times, then dump them in. No secondary; fermented for 2 weeks then added the strawberries and let it...

There's not much of a point to this post beyond wanting get back into the homebrewing; I just felt like writing something down to keep my motivation and excitement up. I haven't brewed in about a year. I wanted to, but circumstances leave me in a position where I can be called away from what...

I recently bought some high-temp tubing for bottling so I could sanitize it in the dishwasher, but I was curious if your basic plastic bottling wand would be able to handle sanitization temps, and I can't find any info any of the sellers' pages. I'm fine with sanitizing it with starsan, but if...

I brewed a witbier about 3 weeks ago. 2 weeks in I lugged my fermenter to the kitchen to check it out and bottle it if it was good. Everything seemed okay, but it was ever so slightly carbonated and foamy, so I decided to put it back and let it sit. About a week later I check the fermenter and...

I looked around the net quite a bit and found that the majority of recipes/advice tell to add orange peels at flameout (or during boil), but I have also run into a few recipes that say to soak fresh orange peel in vodka and dump it in the fermenter later. Has anyone done this? How does each...

I have no idea why I'm writing this, just some venting, I guess. It didn't really bother me, but later on I thought "that was a really sh***y thing to do, especially to a customer." I went to Northern Brewer as I usually do. I noticed a few of the employees had a bit of an arrogance, like...

with craft brew booming over the last few years, I have been seeing that many beers will list the hops used on the beer bottles. That's nice and all, but reading that only made me wonder: "How many of the people buying this actually know what the heck it means?" When did beer culture get to the...

Hello. I have a few years of brewing experience under my belt, but I can't say I'm very good at it. Living in Minneapolis, I get my kits mainly from Northern Brewer and sometimes Midwest. I haven't used any Mr. Beer products in years, but I still get their e-mail newsletter. Anyway, they were...

I ordered a California common recipe kit on sale (among others), and by some mistake, I ended up with Saflager w-34/70 instead of the suggested s-23. I figured I'd just make it with that, but I'm not experienced with lager yeasts, so I'm having some reservations. What's the verdict? Should I...

Yesterday I tried a drink called The Dude's Rug from B. Nektar. It's described as a mead with tea and chai, but it definitely tastes like an apple cider. The chai complimented it very well. I thought I could try something simple and just add some spiced chai tea to an apple cider brew and see...

I was just in London yesterday, and I got a Fullers London Pride from a pub. It was... well, kinda flat. Strangely, though, I loved it. The light carbonation was refreshing, and I liked the taste ( I tasted something nutty(?) at the end of each swig). Anywhoo, that got me wanting to try an...

I just had a bit of a concern with a beer I just bottled. This was just a quick experiment with an extra can of Coopers HME I had to see how things like ginger and other additions would affect the taste. I got a bottle of Natural Rasberry extract from Northern Brewer, and the instructions say to...

I bought a bottle by this name yesterday. It was brewed by Olvalde Farm and Brewing Company. It bills itself as an imperial porter stout brewed with spruce tips. It was indeed very good, but the flavor that I was the most caught up on was something very similar to raspberry. What ingredient...

I use a Coopers FV as my fermenter (the newer one with the krausen collar). I really like it and I haven't have any problems with it yet, but lately I've been having some concerns, particularly with the spigot. The spigot is just a simple insert-and-lock system with the rubber around the...

I use swing-top bottles, and I collect various kinds when I find them. Some of the bottles I got had tops with non-removable gaskets, so I had to replace the whole thing. I got a pack of wire bail caps at Northern Brewer. They looked fine to me (the wire pieces looked the right length, the cap...

I have a very silly concern that has kept me from taking hydrometer readings with the spigot on the fermenter, so now I am going to bring it out and let people tell me how stupid it is so hopefully I won't be afraid anymore. OK, so say I take a hydrometer reading through the fermenter's...

This is my wife's favorite beer, and it's been growing on me as well (going to the Heineken Experience in Amsterdam gave me a new appreciation for it). My first LHBS in Honolulu has a list of good-looking recipes (http://www.homebrewinparadise.com/BrewRecipes.aspx), including a Heineken one...

I'm going to buy a Coopers fermenter soon (I really like them), and I'm trying to decide between the basic and bundle pack. The basic kit is 129.99, comes with all the equipment, and a can of Lager hme. The bundle os 199.99 and comes with 3 extra refills in addition to the Lager that's...

Nearly 2 weeks ago I brewed a Bourbon Barrel Porter. Things mostly went well, and I got a lot of activity shortly after pitching the yeast. That subsided in a few days, and I let it be from then. Then the weather started getting colder and we all got a memo to keep our heaters on all the time...