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Find a recipe for a good barley wine. That will get the alcohol up there :D

Would that translate to "end of the world?" I've never heard of it. Got to agree with Janx... that recipe does sound interesting. Is the original more like a wheat beer? You might want to increase the wheat extract and decrease the barley if maltiness is a problem.

What size is the conical Roger? Have you had a chance to use it. It looks like they greatly simplify that part of the brewing process.

I actually add an intermediate racking. When I'm down to about 10 or 12 bubbles a minute in the primary airlock, I rack to an intermediate carboy and let the primary fermentation finish. After that I rack to the "final secondary" and use the intermediate carboy for the new batch. What is...

Can you ever have too many carboys? :D I have several 1 gallon glass apple juice jugs, 3 3 gallon carboys, several 5's, 6's and 6 1/2's. I've picked them up over the years so now I can handle just about any odd sized batch.

I always cover my carboys with an old shirt or something. Don't want to take the chance.

This is the first fall I've missed in a few years. But I usually buy grapes from one of the local home brew shops. They're shipped out from California to a market in Boston. I've had my best luck with reds but have done a couple of whites from juice that came out pretty nicely. What are you...

I like to time a batch for kegging right as I'm emptying one of the Corny's I use. I pop the cover, clean it, and rack right into the keg without having to sanitize it. The keg's cool from being in the beer fridge and filled with CO2. I thoroughly clean the draw hose and tap though.

Ditto that. I've done this a few times myself and never noticed any off flavors. I have read though that you don't want to do this more than 4 or 5 times because the yeast mutates and its characteristics change.

I found this site by doing a google search on "home brew forum." It came up at the top of the list.

I had a blow off tube get clogged on me once. It blew out the stopper and left a nice brown circle on the white textured ceiling and a little river of brown ale running across the floor :D I had used leaf hops and hadn't strained them all out. Enough of them found their way to the hole in...

I've had a couple of yeast starters go bad. They had a odors that left no doubt that they had gone bad... very foul smell. As long as your batch smells ok, 99.9% chance it is.

Are they about a half inch high or so, open on one end with the other end being shaped like a cone? It sounds like the gizmo you push onto the end of your racking kane to keep sediment from being racked with the beer.

I'm guessing it was a coincidence. Not a dietician nor do I play one on t.v., but I think any fiber in the barley stays with the grain and doesn't get transfered to the beer? Anyone know for sure?

I've never done an Imperial... but I guess it goes without saying that you'd be using a blow off tube instead of an air lock for the primary fermentation ;) Sounds like fun... let us know what the primary is like?

No expert here YYZ. Anyway brewing is the kind of activity that you can get involved with at so many levels. Are you brewing kits or are you comfortable with recipe brewing. There are some great recipes here and many of them are quite detailed: http://brewery.org/brewery/gambmug/gambmug.shtml

I used to do full volume boils in an 8 gallon pot. It covered 2 burners on one side of the stove. Between all the boilovers and the heat, the top of the stove became discolored. Made peace with the better half, bought her a new stove and moved my brewing outside with a couple of cajun...

Sure if you have the end of the tube submerged in an antiseptic solution of some kind.

Any pub in Brussels :D Just kidding. Here's a web site that seems to have a nice selection. I've never used them though. http://www.vintagecellar.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=VCOS&Category_Code=3100

I usually don't bother getting bud drinkers to try my homebrew. A typical reaction was that the beer was too heavy for their taste. Now people who are drinking quality microbrews... that's a different story.