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hi all, i'm ready to upgrade my kettle to try some new things like full volume extract boil, and BIAB full volume. i only brew 5 gallon batches and pretty much just high gravity IPA's and Stouts. i think i'm sold on the mega pot 1.2 but i can't decide on the size. i would like to go 10gal...

just curious for some feedback on my idea. i brewed up this recipe a while back and it was the fastest drank batch i've had. i'm ready to try it again but i want to change it up a bit. the original recipe calls for the following hop schedule: 1oz zythos-boil 10.9% .75oz falconers...

so last night i bottled my annual spruce porter recipe. in an effort to harvest as much of my beer as i could, i placed the fermenter lid under the edge of the fermenter to tilt it back a bit. well if you haven't figured it out yet, the inevitable happened. unfortunately i dropped the lid...

Hey guys, I'm gonna brew an ESB this weekend. I pulled the following recipe from Papazian and bought the ingredients. 5.6lb muntons plain light DME 3/4lb crystal 60L 2.5oz fuggles boiling 1oz fuggles finishing s-o4 or us-05 yeast Just curious if anyone has any suggestions, hop...

On my recent trip to KY I checked out the LHBS in my home town. I asked the guys to set me up with a basic stout recipe and came home with the following: 14oz-black patent 3.3#-Briess trad. dark 3#-Muntons plain extra dark 1oz-chinook 1oz-cluster Just curious if anyone had any recipe...

hey guys, got a problem. i made a midwest irsh red ale. i've opened 4 of them so far and all seem to have sort of a watery taste and varying degrees of flat. i usually open a beer about 1.5-2 weeks in bottle to check carbing and found that one to be almost completely flat. they have now been...

I have a coopers fermenter and I have been using their carbonation drops. I would like to start using corn sugar instead. do i need to move my beer to a bottling bucket? I want to get another round of bottles(flip tip style)and I'm not sure that the carbonation drops will fit in the mouth of...

hey guys, i'm ready to start my second batch. i already have a can of coopers real ale extract, 2 kg of coopers brewing sugar, and a bag of the carbonation drops. i was just wondering if someone could share a basic recipe or offer hints for this brew. my first batch was the lager with 1kg...

first of all, hello my name is matt. i got on board with the cooper beer kit. so far i have followed the kit directions(got kit before finding this site). its been in the fermenter for 6 days at 21C and shows signs of fermentation. i got out my hydrometer today(a tool i have still not quite...