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Oh ya! The best part is you can tell your wife that you have to buy craft beer to get the quality bottles to reuse for brewing. If she tells you that it makes no sense for you to spend more money on beer you buy to spend more money on beer you make tell her your making her a hard cider. It's cheap, ...

I was at Payless/Krogers yesterday to buy my $20 worth of food and $60 worth of beer for the week when I notice they had new labels up on all of the beers. I can tell that they are trying to sell their craft section to more conservative drinkers because they are starting to put up the style that the...

I am fly sparging with an 8 gal brew kettle and a 3/4 in stainless steel braid that wraps around the circumference of the kettle and connects to a copper T. I did do a mash out at 170 for 10 min. This was my Mash schedule 122 F 30 min 150 F 25 min 158 F 20 min When I reviewed my notes I notice I ski...

What temp is you wort when you measure your OG? Hydrometers are calibrated to take readings at 60 F and if it is above that say 77 F and you take your reading of say 1.046 then you need to make a correction by adding 2 so your actual OG would be 1.048. Unfortunately your wort would have to be about ...

I will take those into account when I brew this weekend. I was wondering if having a lot of time between rests had an effect on specific amylase enzimes. For example if it calls for a 20 min rest at 150 F then needs a jump to 158 F to develop amylase-a, does it matter that it takes another 15 min to...

In my AG batches I have had a body problem. It usually comes out too light. What causes this and how can I make a FULL bodied beer?