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Finally getting to brew for the first time in over a year! Having a baby, starting a new career, and buying my first house really took up a lot of time. Hopefully I haven't forgotten too much. We'll see how this first batch goes.

I'm going to be a dad! This is good news, but I've had a few, and I'm freaking out a bit. It feels safe to say that here, where no one I know will read it, or know who I am. Anybody else freak out a little before their first kid was born?

I opened up my chest freezer tonight to pull a nice draft of my IPA why I watch some football, and what do I find? Near 5 gallons of Yooper's Dead Guy Clone in the bottom of the freezer and the keg floating! All that delicious beer gone! :( Time to convince SWMBO I need to drop the picnic...

I'm starting to get frustrated. I've been brewing for 3 years, and I haven't run into too many problems that didn't work themselves out eventually if left alone. However, I have two beers now that seem to be either stuck or just fermenting at a snails pace. The first is an IPA that's been...

I brewed Yooper's Dogfish Head 60 min clone on 6/19. I measured the SG at 1.075. I pitched a starter of Pacman yeast and fermentation took off as expected. I used a cooler and wet t-shirts to keep the temp at around 65 degrees. On 7/2, I took a SG reading and got 1.028, which seemed high to...

I'm new to kegging, but I've tried to read a ton on this forum before I started doing it. Based on everything I read, it sounded like 10ft of 3/16" house was the best way to go for getting a good pour. I've got an AmberBock that I've carbed for over three weeks using the set and forget...

I just finished up my 3rd AG batch, Ed's Kolsch recipe. My first two attempts created good beer, but my efficiency was horrible, around 58%. This time around I tried 5.2 stabilizer and watched my temps a little more closely. Turns out the thermometer I was using before had a loose wire in...

I just finished brewing my first AG batch. A Mirror Pond Pale Ale clone from AHS. I haven't used BeerSmith before, so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and plug the recipe into BeerSmith and look at the directions it produced to compare with the AHS directions. They were very...