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A couple of weeks ago I brewed a partial mash Porter. I had a fairly short window of time to brew and wasn't thinking it through clearly enough. Unfortunately, I added the grains to the cold water, like one might do for steeping grains, and heated to my mash temp (152F) instead of mashing in the...

I have two bottle cappers. When capping the last batch, the caps seemed fine. Most of the bottles were carbonated nice at first and few were flat. Upon closer inspection, some of the caps didn't seem "closed" all the way. Pulled out the red capper and tried to see if I could tighten 'em down. It...

Got the NB Nut Brown extract kit (with steeping grains) and thought I'd doctor it up a bit. I'm going for something to store away somewhere til the holidays. I want it to be a little malty sweet with kind of a oatmeal cookie or fruitcake vibe. Here's what I came up with ("Recipe does not...

Greetings all. I'm in Bear, DE. One of the nice things about DE is we usually have a good selection of Dogfish Head available :mug: I've used Mr. Beer for a number of years and recently got a deal on a 5 gal setup too good to pass up. My first batch is 2 weeks in the primary and I can't wait...