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I had real good luck on my blackberry https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=402508 Then I tried to make a kinda margarita mess using honey and agave and lime and.. well poured it out. Next tried a strawberry melomel. Started out really nice, bottled it and it turned in to acidic rocket...

I was brewing last weekend. As I reached in the cabinet to pull the 5 gal bucket out a spark came off my finger a inch long. Woah my heart skipped a beat. I havent cleaned the flour dust out for a while so I got my brushes out and I got quite a large pile. Probably close to a pound. Should I...

Midwest sent me a 20% off coupon so I decided to try my first Ipa. i went with this one. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/kiwi-crossing-ipa-all-grain-kit.html Get a taste of the Kiwi homeland with this entirely New Zealand hopped IPA. Bold and exotic hop flavors of orange marmalade, tropical...

First off all the chemistry stuff gives me a headache, so the more I read it seems the more confused I get. On and off my well water gets a funny smell, not really like rotten eggs more like onions. I have a sediment filter at the well and at the brewery I have a charcoal filter that goes...

I`m gonna give this mead stuff another shot after the agave disaster. So far I got. 18 lbs of strawberries 15 lbs of cosco honey 2 packs of ec 1118 yeast I mixed 10 lbs of honey into 3 gals of filtered water, stirred the heck out of it with a paint stirrer, hydrated my yeast with a weak...

I brewed vienna lager with a og of 1.062 last week. Got everything done and in to the cooler for fermenting. I went over this morning to check on it and dang it, I never reset the tstat from 36 back up to 51 after I did my cold drop from the last brew. So basically my lager has been sitting at...

My fermentation has basically died. It is stuck at 1.070. I checked the ph and its shows very high at 7.8 or so. Before I pitch another yeast pack It seems I should get that down. Can I use lime juice as a acid to get it down to the 5.0 level? :confused: Here is what I am making...

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I have wanted to make a margarita tasting drink after drinking the little budritas. The only difference is I want mine to taste good not like a bunch of artificial flavorings. After doing research it looks like I should have about a 25/75 split between honey and agave nectar. The one issue I...

I bought 3 of the complete sight glass assembles from brew hardware. I am not bashing Bobby so dont read that into this. The tubing on my brew kettle cracked like crazy and while it does not leak yet no way I can brew with it until replaced. I can get a replacement for 10 bucks plus shipping but...

What is a fart? A fart it is a pleasant thing, It gives the belly ease, It warms the bed in winter, And suffocates the fleas. A fart can be quiet, A fart can be loud, Some leave a powerful, Poisonous cloud A fart can be short, Or a fart can be long, Some farts have been known...

With the popularity of margarita beers I was thinking about trying to brew one. I really dont want to pour artificial flavoring into the finished beer like I am sue the inbev guys do. Anyone have a good recipe? Maybe use agave syrup?:tank:

I have a irish red that didnt really come out right. This was the first time I used wpl004 and did not know what to expect. I brewed 10 gallons so I made a 4000ml starter. I am used to wpl001 and it really kicks off but this one didnt do much. It did make a little foam and dropped the og so in...

I am new to mead as this is my 3rd batch, the first 2 being jaom. Basically a 5 gal recipe. 15 lbs of clover honey, 6 lbs of 3 berry mix, and 1118 yeast. I stirred it once a day for a week and added nutrient each time. After 2 weeks I strained off the floating berries and added 3 more lbs of...

My keg of flat tire seamed a little off and wasnt carbonating properly. Low and behold it was half frozen. My buddy thought the beer wasnt cold enough and turned it down. I probably drank 2 gallons before I figured it out. No wonder it was so potent....

I found a qt mason jar of wpl 001 in the back of the fridge. It must be about 6 months old I guess. Its a dark grayish brown. I just picked up a stir plate so I figured what the heck and poured it in along with some dme. It came out like thick mud. I wonder if I can get something useful out of...

There was a sign up sheet at my local Heb store so what the heck I signed my name and they called today. I picked up 2 six packs of this http://www.saintarnold.com/beers/divine_13.html I have not tasted it yet going to sit back and sip it. Anyone else get any?:mug:

I live about 40 miles from Houston and I have a shallow well. City water is not available in my area and I cannot afford to drill another well so I have to deal with it. There is a lot of iron in the soil and it will turn the toilet red if I let the sediment filter get dirty. The water has a...

I am going to pick up a stir plate for my next piece of equipment. I have seen the homemade ones and they are really cool but I have way too many projects right now. Anyone have a line on a cheap plate that will work well? Ebay has a ton of them but which one to buy? :confused:

I have washed this strain several times. The last couple of times I am getting a layer that is thick like peanut butter. Is this the viable layer? I had 2 mason jars on my last 10 gal batch. The bucket with the thick consistency was a gusher while the one with a thinner consistency did its job...