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Thanks much for that info.

I am looking for a discount on the BYO Digital Subscription. Anyone see anything around maybe for Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Thanks in advance

I am looking for a discount on the BYO Digital Subscription. Anyone see anything around maybe for Black Friday/Cyber Monday? Thanks in advance

My current Beer an English Mild Ale is 6 days in and the reading is 7.5Bx using the refractometer. I just moved it from a 60F location to one that is 70F. I will give it till midweek to finish up and clear some more. At that time I am expecting a bit lower reading.

I know that it is proper to measure the finished gravity with a Hydrometer to mitigate inaccuracy of doing so with a Refractometer when alcohol is present. After relying on the latter to monitor the fermentation process for quite some time I picked up a Hydrometer to get a more exact ABV%...

65 Gallons to date. Still 1/4 of the Homebrewing year to go

Aaron Staying with the idea simple can be great, do you have any ideas on a similar simple Amber Ale recipe? Thanx

That is a possibility. I am not a big wine drinker and haven't had hardly any in years but I seem to remember that could bring the headaches on also. Thanks for the reminder LOL

BTW I have tried a lot of things for arthritic pain and gout through the years. What has worked very well for me. Fresh Spinach, Fish Oil Tabs and mild exercise. Plenty of stretching. Just my experience.

No I don't. It is a commercial operation and I assume they are using things like that (I seem to remember those tablets from my wine making days way back before BEER).

Headaches after drinking some craft or homebrew beer have not been an issue for me in ages. I was told by several people that they would not drink draft beer in a bar because it gave them headaches. And I found that often it did the same to me. Leave the bar after a few with lunch and by the...

I also found that if you mix the desert up and place it in the fridge uncovered it will take on a thicker consistency reaching the low end of soft ice cream. Also the naturally red rhubarb color leeches out of the rhubarb lending a nice pinkish color to the yogurt. A little sweetner added to...

Love the idea of rhubarb raspberry sauce. I don't have the raspberries available but do take rhubarb out of my garden and run some through a small electric table top chopper then dump it into my home made yogurt. I add a bit of sweetener to it and that is my evening sweet tooth satisfier. I tend...

@murphyslaw You know what they say (whoever they are), that you can learn much more from your mistakes than you do from your successes. Successes are just the positive reinforcement that you are doing it right......or that you got lucky with that particular batch.

When trying to save $ it makes sense to figure out what costs the most in a batch of beer. And then the second most and so forth. My grain bill is my largest cost at about $10 per batch for simple beers buying by the sack. If you compare that with the price of LME or DME or small quantity grain...

After 10 months of setting the last 2 bottles were opened. Clear, great flavor and decent head which was missing early (most likely not fully carbed). Its almost time again for the 2014 version.

My 30L is a piece of cake to clean. Of course I don't let it set for extended periods after usage before cleaning. A very little soaking around the early fermentation line and a quick sponge........done. I had much more problem years ago cleaning the glass carboys when I was doing wine. I will...

Me neither. Thats why I am going to pick up what I can and not worry about the 'heavy stuff'. I won't know until I give it a shot.......As always though......the price is rite so if it doesn't fit.....oh well

I do that and it has worked fine for me. I am not sure how close the wort temperature and the outside of the fermenter is to each other but I would assume close enough for gov't work LOL I guess someone could put a probe inside and check that vs what the thermometer indicates but I will leave...

Interesting but seems to fly in the face of other information that says you cannot go solely on visual examination to determine when fermentation is finished. Stable non falling gravity readings over several days seems to be the gold standard. That said there is nothing wrong with visual...