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I'd definitely say it was is a smokey taste, but we do use city water. Detroit city water is regarded as among the safest, but it is chlorinated. I think I'll try using distilled water in my next batch, because several people have commented on the chlorine factor. I have my latest batch in...

I feel like I haven't paid enough attention to this either. Usually I am using liquid extracts that come in the kits, and I don't think I've taken this step ass seriously as I should. I do take the pot off the boil, but I don't think I'm focused on not letting the extracts settle at the bottom...

@Jag75 Okay! I can do that! I love the process of brewing. I used to be more into cooking, but life got too busy. Getting back into this is like cooking but the pay off is so much better than one good meal! The hard part is waiting all the time it takes to ferment only then to find you've...

Here's one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U83RPS4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and here's another...

Wow. I'm afraid I've wound up in this advanced class, but I need to find Brewing for Dummies. At this point , I just want to follow directions someone else has blazed. I'm a better following someone else's directions.

This is what I was afraid of. It seems I've quickly gotten in the deeper end of the pool when you're talking about my pH. I Just use our tap water. We have used liquid, and job #1 in my next batch is to focus intently on the high end of my burning heat. You assume way too much of me, brother...

I just use our gas stove to heat. As I said above, I use our gas stove to heat. After reviewing your linked site, specifically the section on sparging, maybe you and Jayjay were onto it. Maybe I've not paid close enough attention to the top end of my boiling temps. It says to keep the temp...

This is my second thread since joining. Again, I tried to find my answer before asking, but I couldn't. In searching for "smokey taste", I found a lot by brewers who were trying to get it but nothing about avoiding it. I'm on my 4th brew. The first was pretty good, and i got some nice...

Hello. I just joined a few days ago, and I searched for an answer to one of my questions but couldn't find a discussion that quite fit. I am on my 4th brew, 1 week from bottling. I bought this keg system, and I'm hoping to use it next weekend in addition to bottling...

Thank you all for the welcome! I have so many questions about things I think I've done wrong and other things I want to try. I want to do a lot of searching here before I start a thread about some things that have been discussed 1000 times. For example, kegging. I'm not asking the question...

Greetings from Michigan. My name is Mike. I bought all of our starter equipment about 18 months ago, thinking it would be a great hobby for my wife and I to do together, and it sat in our basement for a full year. Last September, we finally started brewing. It really is what I hoped it would...