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Hi All, I've heard things from friends but i wanted to run this by everyone on here. I have friends who swear that you can save the sanitizer for 2 weeks until you're ready to bottle (he stores it in a 5 gallon keg) and i've heard never to save sanitizer (at my local brew supply store). I guess...

all, just tasted my fist batch of amber ale.... tasted great for a first go, but I am super pumped to start experimenting. I figure the only way to truly learn is to take some wacky steps. So, I plan on purchasing a 2 gallon Hefeweizen extract, and I want to know if any of the following...

I have a white film on the top of my mint wine. I have read it may be dead yeast but am unsure. I want to make sure it's not bad before I try it. It doesn't smell bad... Please help! Thank you!!

Hey all, new to this form and homebrewing. I got brewing equiptment as a gift. It came with an 8gal kettle and outdoor burner-at some point I'll switch to AG. I have read John Palmers how to brew book cover to cover and made a 1 gal batch that I'm planning to bottle this weekend. I understand...

Hello, I am brand new to brewing, my wife got me a kit for Christmas and my birthday and I have loved doing it, although I feel like I have no idea what I am doing. I am very lucky in that I have a local homebrew supply store less than five minutes away, here in Ogden, UT. My first brew was...

Hey all, I'm new to home brewing. I have brewed a porter and currently waiting on a brown ale to finish. I love it so far! I have made wine at home for years and just racked my way over to the beer side (see what I did there?). I was never a fan of beers until recently. Matter of fact, I...

Hey everybody, I am fairly new to homebrewing and to the website, but I would love to try and find some people to brew/swap beers with and maybe start a bigger "club" kind of thing going in Greensboro. I know of the Battleground Brewers but I feel like they are much bigger group of brewers...

Hey everybody, I am fairly new to homebrewing and to the website, but I would love to try and find some people to brew/swap beers with and maybe start a bigger "club" kind of thing going in Greensboro. I know of the Battleground Brewers but I feel like they are much bigger group of brewers...

Let me start by saying that this was a partial mash kit for an Irish Stout. It was a kit and came with the grains pre milled, (locally) and 7lbs of Dark LME. This is the third kit that I have used from my LHBS and the first two turned out ok. I only say Ok because the first was way too hoppy for...

Hello! My name is Justin, and my fiancee and I are new to homebrewing. The first time I tried brewing was with a Mr. Beer kit 14 years ago, and in just the last year or so I've been interested in trying again. The Mr. Beer was a total failure, of course, because they told me to use table...

Just got my Equipment this Saturday and Brewed my first batch the next day (last night). It's happily bubbling away in the fermentor. :mug: It's an Autumn Amber Ale. Multiple websites said this was the best forum around so here I am.