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I don't want to do this myself cause I don't have any of the bits, safety glasses, cutting oil, file, and I don't have anything to brace the kettle w/. So I want to hire someone but I'm concerned about going to wrong person for the job and getting screwed. I do know a homebrewer mechanic...

I purchased 2 1gal. jugs (one red and one white) of wine from a homewinemaker and want to bottle in smaller sizes. I'm concerned that the air in the new bottles won't be good for the wine. Will it reduce the shelf life and is there any other concerns I should have?

Hello all, I'm having some company over on Christmas Eve and need to know what to serve my friends. They are from the outskirts of Russia and I don't want to be embarassed. I've got in the cabinet Smirnoff (which is in a plastic container, obviously classy) and also I have Skyy which I...

My true brew bucket started leaking my star san solution from the bottom. I looked in the bucket after dumping it and saw cracks along all the edges. I've previously kept some star san solution in there for a couple months cause I don't brew or bottle too often and I like getting a few things...

He made it 2 years ago. I don't know how much, but I think the recipe was just some cider and yeast. Needless to say, Its been sitting in his cask (I think he has a plastic one) for two years. He simply can't bottle it himself cause he is a caretaker for his sick wife. I want to offer my...

Anyone use one of these for a brew kettle. I'll bet they are good for basement full wort boils. I saw it on ebay. linkhttp://cgi.ebay.com/GROEN-40-QT-STEAM-JACKETED-KETTLE-TDB-7-40-SAUCE-SOUP_W0QQitemZ200206985694QQihZ010QQcategoryZ57084QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

My friend helped me out bottling on saturday night and so I gave him six bottles of homebrew. I forgot to tell him to store the bottles at room temp so when he got home he put them right in the refridgerator. Is there any hope for the yeast carbonating those homebrews? They were in his...

I purchased all new tubing and canes and some of which came from HD, so a good cleaning is in store, besides my equipments been sitting around collecting dust for a few months. I'm gonna be bottling this weekend and haven't used oxyclean much at all. I'd like to soak all my equipment and...

Some of my local liquor stores really suck ass. I've been sold old sour beer on numerous occasions. Yesterday I was on the hunt for something new and wanted to go with something by Brooklyn Brewery. So as I was in line about to pay for a 6pk of Brooklyn brewery lager, I noticed it said best...

I picked up new tubing and a cane yesterday as well as an auto-siphon. I can't for the life of me get the auto-siphon to work. I follow the directions and have been messing around with a starsan solution, trying to get it from the bucket to a carboy. I can only get what I pump through then...

I get a huge head out of the bottle and the beer is undrinkable. Its happened to two batches and I suspect that the amount of corn sugar was too much. Actually one of the two was primed with 1/2 cup DME and 1/2 cup of maple syrup packaged by my LHBS for one of their kits. The beer carbonated...

I'm having company over tonight and was thinking of trying the grog from the "Man, I love Apfelwein" thread. What else can you do with this recipe? EdWort says, "this makes a great Grog in the winter time. Take a quart in a sauce pan, add some rum, turbinado sugar, and float a cinnamon...

First Apfelwein batch. used 5 gal apple juice 2 lbs brown sugar and montrachet. total time in fermenter 7 weeks and 4 days OG ??? SG 2 weeks and 2 days ago 1.003 SG yesterday 1.003 Its bubbling every 1 minute exactly.

I'd like one that doesn't round off the amounts of grain when I enter .375 lbs (which is 6oz) it gets rounded to .38lbs. Using 1oz or 2oz of a grain (say a black patent or roasted barley) both get rounded out to .1 lb. Also the hops get rounded off too. I've tried the trial versions of...

The weather in the northeast is driving me bonkers. Its gonna be hot and humid tomorrow and probably friday too. We here in New England demand cold weather. pfft, my wife may have to put the darn AC on (the wife wants me to include here that she is 8 months pregnant). It is OCTOBER isn't it...

First off, I'd like to thank everyone who contributes to this site. Its a great place to talk to and learn from others with the same love of beer. I have learned a lot here. I've got a PM MLT setup because of HBT. I used 4 lbs and 10 oz of grain for my first PM. I did a 60 min mash in my...

I'm wondering what some of the extract brewers here use for water. Upon reading an article in the current BYO I have realized a new notion. Malt extracts still have all the minerals from the water from which they were made. I will be using distilled water for a portion of my next beer. I...

well, I got it bottled, but it wasn't pretty. I used hop pellets to dry hop a pale ale and decided on getting pantyhose to filter out the hops when bottling. Where I went wrong is when I put the pantyhose over the racking cane and into the beer. It kept getting stuck, so I set up the siphon...

I was about to rack to secondary and thought what the heck... The airlock is still bubbling every 4 seconds. I made this brew a week ago today. I'm anxious to free up the fermenter to start a new batch in this one. My question is... Does the yeast need more time in the primary or would it...

Hello all, hell, i love beer and enjoy reading about it, drinking it, and making it. I'm a noobie w/ 7 batches under my belt, but can say my latest batch was twice as good as the previous ones. I'm happy to have found a forum for brewers as i have no homebrew friends. I'll be seeing...