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I once saw a recipe for spent grain bread, not sure where it is, but if I find it I will post.. good luck

Can someone give me a run-down of the perticular uses of each type of hop, be it whole or leaf etc.. Are there advantages/disadvantages with each type... Thanks...

hey all, I got a quick one for ya, I wanted to start a thread about grain mills and what everyone thinks aobut them. Could someone tell me which mill they belive to be the best and the reasons for liking it so much... Or is there a guide to grain mills with the pros and cons somewhere on the web, th...

it was a 90 minute boil, 6 gals to start and end with 5 gals, allthough this was not the case, I will crank the heat down and keep and eye out, is there a =temp to go by ? Also when this happens is adding more water safe, a buddy of mine says I should have added more water to bring it back up to fiv...

well after months of brewing without one, I bought a turkey fryer. At 170,000 BTU's I cant belive I ever brewed any other way, man that thing is sweet. gathered the wort and moved the pot to the burner, within about 15 minutes the boil was blasting off. Almost had a boilover. I started with 6 gallon...

hey all, I was curious that since I am kegging my brew and using a recipe that suggests corn suger for priming, do I still need it , because I am force carbonating my beer in the keg ? should I just go ahead and add the suger to the keg, or boil it in ? or what ???? thanks

Hello, Could someone tell me what is the correct way to boil, can one use a lid during the boil or should the lid be left off while boiling ? Also could you tell me why ? Thanks..

I have heard but not yet found somewhere you can buy a clear plastic lid for a 6.5 gallon plastic fermenter, does anyone know where I can get one >?/ possibly on-line ? Thanks for the help

Are you saying that is is possiable to blow a keg ? that sounds scary : ( , yes I will be using gyle ot prime, as I do with all my brews, so I will reduce it to 1/3 amount of org. If I plan on kegging the next batch, I guess I should take that into account when pulling the gyle out, correcting my ca...

when using the gyle method to prime beer, is there any problems with consistency ? meaning that if I do it batch to batch, will there be in un-consistency in my F.G., carbonation, flavor, etc... ? thanks for any help

Ii have a 5Gal keg getting ready to load my first batch in, I am going to carbonate naturally, Do I need to filter beer in the keg, or will I just get some sediment on a couple of brews ?

Can someone point me to an online resource for the Reinheitsgebot trade law ? thanks

When using the unfermented wort(gyle) to prime with, is there any reason to be concerned with o2 levels ? Someone told me that me that you will not get the proper carbonation becasue of o2 levels being low and the yeast not being able to consume the sugar, could someone please shed some light on thi...

wondering if someone can point me in the direction of some instruction or "how to" build my own sparge arm, how does phils sparge arm work ? I have not had the op to see one up close yet, any help would be great, thanks -->

well its be awhile (about a month )since I post'd a note about my mead and some strange white stuff at the top, at first I described it as a film, now it seems to be streaming down the sides, almost looks like a fine powder, any of you meaders, (or anyone with more knowledge than me:) have any idea ?