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So last night I was getting ready to bottle my latest brew and my wife says you want help? I say sure why not. So she is filling bottles as I cap.(1st reason i love her) Then, as we are sitting there bottling 2 cases, she says so how long will this last you? Thinking I was going to get in...

My original fermentation was slow getting started. I pitched last Sunday and it didnt start until last wednesday. I am planning to move to secondary tonight after a week of fermenting and a little more than a week in primary. Anybody see any problems with only keeping in the secondary for 1.5...

I smacked my Wyeast 2112 (California lager) pack on Sunday around 11 AM. When I pitched it at 8 that night it was barely swollen, maybe the bag had swollen an inch or so. I decided to pitch it anway into wort about 80 degress, a little warm but from what I read temp shouldnt kill yeast until in...

3/4 lb Melanoidin 2/3 lb 40L 2 cans Coopers Light LME 1 oz Perle (60 Mins) 1 oz Hersbrucker (Last 10) Liquid Wyeast 2112 Cal Lager I posted on here a few weeks ago about using my left over grains and never got around to using them. I was passing the LHBS today and said lets stop in...

I have 3 bags of grains left over from previous brews and would like to get something going with them before they get too old. Also my wife would be happy to get some room back in the freezer. Obvisouly I will need to get extract and hops. I have: ~.5 lbs 10L ~.75lbs melanodin (sp?) ~.66lbs...

Anybody tried to brew anything like the Sam Adams Version? The only thing I can find is the rootbeer porter thread. Any suggestions on a Extract with Speciality Grains recipe?

Anybody know how many cups 7 oz of priming sugar is? I am bottling my vanilla weizen today and was reading up that wheat beers usually have more fizz and to use more sugar. The recipator said 8+oz of sugar will give me a carb level of about 4. I figured I would go for 7 or so ounces since 8...

I have a weizen that is in the secondary now with a vanilla bean soaking in it. I am wondering how long I should keep the bean in. Do I have to worry about any off flavors if its left in too long? How long does it take for a vanilla flavor to come out of the bean? I cut the bean and scrapped the...

I brewed a vanilla weizen a week ago that came out with a corrected OG of 1.036. It had a VERY active fermentation (blew off my airlock) for a week and last night I transfered it to the secondary with a gravity reading of 1.009 @ 68 Degrees. I think the ABV is somewhere are 3.3% now. I knew my...

can somebody help me put this receipe together. I wanted to do a vanilla weizen like the one on homebrew heaven. My wife went to the Local HBS and they put some ingredients together, but I dont know how much of each and the one online doesnt say either. Think this matches closely to the one...

Well, spring is here and summer is not that far off so it is time for me to start thinking about brewing a summer beer. I am going to be away the whole month of April and when i return would like to start a summer brew which would make it ready by the middle of June. Anybody have suggestions? I...

I was hoping to be able to use my dishwasher to sanatize the 2 cases of bottles need at bottling time. There is an option to turn sanatize on/off. The manual says that the water temp is raised to 155 degrees for 9 minutes to sanatize. Would this be good enough for the bottles or are only the...

Anybody ever had this beer? We had it on our honeymoon last year and was delicious! It is made from the Turks cactus that is found in the Turks and caicos Islands.

I just bottled up a few bottles of beer and am wondering where I should condition them. I am thinking room temp and in the dark. But my wife doesnt want the beer in the cabinet in case it explodes and then I have a big mess. Wont the garage and basement be too cold, I live in NJ where the highs...

I made the wort a week ago Saturday and it was fermenting pretty good for a few days with at least 1 bubble a second. Now it is over a week and I am still getting about 2 bubbles a minute. Think it is to early to go to secondary? I am making a strawberry ale and expecting another ferment from...

What, if anything, needs to change for my 5 gallon recipe if I only plan on boiling 2-3 gallons and then topping off to the 5 gallons. I plan to use this recipe: Steep: 1/4 LB Melanoiden 1/3 LB 40L Crystal 6 LBs Muntons Extra Lite DME 3/4 oz Hersbrucker Hops Boil 1 hour last...

I have a new set of equipment to replace my lakeview valley farms brewing kit and was hoping to use some of the left over ingredients from the kit. I have a package of Amber DME, hops, yeast, gelatin and dextrose. I was thinking of trashing the instructions and trying something different but...

is it a bad idea to have the primary and secondary be 5 gallon glass carboys? I just placed an equipment order and am thinking it wasnt a god one. Should the Primary be bigger than the secondary? thanks