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my first batch. Followed Recipe exactly. It’s completely finished fermenting down to .990. Took a quick sample from the bucket and both my wife and I felt it didn’t have much flavor. We do plan to backsweeten to around 1.010-1.015ish. Other than sugar are there any good recommendations...

Ok folks. Been brewing beer for 2-years now. Decided to get a wine kit for my wife and give it a run to see if I could make a California sweet moscato with EC1118 from wineexperts, it was on sale! Things went well, my first wine. I like the no cooking thing. Halfway through brewing beer I...

Going on short work trip this week and hope to make something this weekend. I'm new to cider. Just set a batch of mead for long storage. I have maxed out beer capped bottles with beer. But have a few cases of swing tops to use. Thoughts on what I should try. I'm all grain now. Maybe a...

I use 5 gal buckets. Normal size racking cane auto siphon. Saw that someone recommended you could use a cloths pin with a rubber band for a cheap clip to hold the autosiohin in place. I also had a buddy give me a plastic autosiohin clip. With both methods, I still find my auto siphon wants...

Folks, There is a nice shipment coming today for me to brew a AG Requiem Raspberry with my GF this weekend, so I will have a good Saturday. Normally, since switching to AG, I make my own recipes or off the database here. However, I am running out of aroma/flavor hops in my fridge and saw a...

Should I pull trigger on $799 sale this weekend or wait for an all inclusive brand 15 or 20% off at a website? In no big rush as I want to burn through my extract inventory. It will be easier overall to GrainFather than build my own setup due to space and lack of time. Thoughts on...

I'm My first brew is ready! Tastes really good and higher than expected ABV based on how quickly it hit me. Bavarian Hefeweizen NB kit. Has the good BH smell and flavor. Head retention is good. Darker than normal because I didn't realize the effect of full boil on malt extract...

Well that was experience.....even after a dry run practicing in garage. Bottled my NB Bavarian Hefe last evening. Did 2.5 gal bottle and left 2.5 gal in primary to make the lemon lime hefe. She is bubbling away this morning. Will learn as I go to make things simpler. Smelled good but...

So an old friend of our family gave me some free stuff. 8 cases of cleaned bottles, glasses for a wide range of beer types and a unknown aged extract kit. Brewers Best India Black Ale. I already know the answer but I will ask anyway.... Should i use it? (No dummy). 3 of the 4 hop packs...

Well I have my second batch in (slobber from NB). Did full boil and finally got Beersmith to help me after some tinkering. Anyway...after my first batch (bav hefe from NB) last weekend, I needed a blow off tube on Monday. Got my tubing sanitized and attached- heard a crack. The airlock...

Hi all Looking for input as I start setting up Beersmith to play with extract recipes as I enter home brewing for honing my skills in prep to move to all grain in a half year. In terms of boil volume and setting up my equipment profile. Doing a 5 gallon full boil batch of extract brew...

Glad to have that monkey off my chest. First- the day started off great as our three kids (one who is teething) slept in till 830am!! Awwyeah. Then it got worse- some stomach bug hit our oldest and then the 3 year old woke up from her nap and got it spiking around 103F. I could have pooled...

Brewers- I did a beer exchange with a buddy who works in Wisconsin. Got 48 unique craft brews from the WI state. My top two as of now are ale asylum bedlam and the Lake Louie Warped Speed Scotch Ale. I can find a few clones and ideas for the Bedlam beer but not the Scotch ale. I think a...

I visited two local stores. I won't get into names as these were my first two, ever. The first one I visited was out of a farm store that I do recall hearing about in the past but it is across town. Nothing special- prices seemed okay but definately not hardcore but they do grind the grain...

Just getting started and ordered 3 extract kits. Some time differences in finish. Got a hefe, brown ale, and citrus ipa. Each has a different finishing time 4-8ish weeks. Should I start the longest one first and space out the earliers later for an on-time 3 beer finish or start the...

So I am starting my home brewery. I have been searching prices and savings (% off deals and free gift cards). I will be ordering this week so I can brew for a summer stockpile. One site is offering $20 gift card for 100$ spent - basically 20% off. It is homebrewsupply.com. Another and...

Hi All- I have read for a few months and now starting to gather supplies and recipes. Lots of great material here so thanks for all the good discussions and future input! Hopefully I can continue to read and get the courage to start brewing this spring and have a beer pipeline built to...