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I´ve been using oxyclean for a year and haven´t had any problems yet, I buy the unscented one it cost around 6$ for 3 pounds of it. When I want to remove labels I let them soak about 20 min in warm-hot water, and peel them off, then I use a metal scrub(for steel pots) for the stubborn ones and...

Great article, thanks for sharing. It was very interesting to learn about you experience in the far north. I look fwd for the next part.

I brewed this recepie last Saturday everything went great, it´s now bubbling away in the fermentor, had to get rid of the airlock and put on a blowoff tube to avoid any disasters because my bucket fermentor was about to blow the lid off, I could hear the gas escaping the fermentor. I was forced...

I get asked this question the most, I always tell them that its easy, but can be as difficult as you want. It doesnt take much to make decent beer miles better than any BCM. But it can be made as complicated that one could have majors in chemestry, biology, agriculture and engenieering and still...

basically you cool crash and decant your original starter, make a second starter, cool it down and throw it on top of your yeast cake, that will provide more sugars for the yeast and you will have a bigger starter. it should take around 5 days total

"Questions: Should i toss that extra .25 columbus in at flameout and what would be a good dry hop to throw in there" throw that extra .25 Columbus hop. There are a lot of hops you could dry hop with, you could use Amarillo which has a great aroma profile similar to cascade but with some...

+ 5 gallons of IPA =19,292

I enjoyed your article very much. on my first batch I was going crazy with every little tiny deviation from the book I read, I was sure I had ruined my frist beer, it turned out great, I which I had taken better notes though.

12 gal Amber Ale 5 gal English Brown Ale 5 gal American Wheat 5 gal German Hefeweizen 14750.5+27 = 14777.5

Love the Brew & A, Im glad its back, good job!

It usually takes me about a week to clean my equipment after brewing. there´s not been a batch in which I don´t make a mistake, from pitching my yeast at 115F (and having to re pitch after 24 hrs), running out of ice during the chilling, ending up with 6 gal instead of 5, forgetting to take...

I do care who makes the beer (I also care about drinking great beer) Here in Mxico the craft brewers are having a hard time with Grupo Modelo and Cuahutemoc Moctezuma (Corona and Tecate) but its slowly getting better, just last year the goverment modified a law that forbid the large breweries...

Yesterday I had my first bottle bomb from a Nut Brown Ale, I think I might over primed a bit I calculated sugar for 5.2 gal but didn´t took into acount the trub so I ended up with 4.9 gal. My wife was around when it happened and she scares easily, I tought I was in for a good one, but she only...

thank you guys, I'm just reading your replies, I'm still swtrugling a bit with the navegation, but I'm getting better :o I went with the pineapple this time, but orange peels are in my waiting list, I want to try them with an IPA and see how it goes, appricots sound great I love them, I'll try...

hi guys I saw this Tepache thread and I wanted to pitch in, being that I'm from México I mhight get some insiders info ;) Tepache is an aztec drink and origanally was made from maize, in some parts of México there still is, but the "modern way" that is to say from last couple of centuries is...