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Listen to this old cogger, I did the same thing, got p*** off at the "EX" and sold all of my stuff because I thought "hell I'll never brew again", that was 7 years ago and I got back into it, and had to buy everything new all over again. We brew better than we can buy, so keep it...

Hey Yooper, I have always gone by the phylosophy of 7 days from cooking to racking and another 7 days to bottling. I have never had a problem. There really is nothing scientific about it, but I brew on a Saturday, and visible perking subsides by Thursday, and I rack on the following Saturday, then I...

Yooper, when I use flowers or plugs they go into a muslin hop sack one for each application IE: bittering, flavor or aroma. However whenever I use pellets I do not filter them out. I use one teaspoon of Irish moss (Which is some type of sea moss???) but what it does is positively charge the fermenti...

Read Papazian's joy of homebrewing, every advanced all grain brewer show have this as a bible, it will save you a lot of time "experimenting" and get right to making good all grain beer the first time. I read the complete section three times before I ever cooked any grain. The advanced sec...

Yooper, The steeping of the grains is completely prior to any boil. With an extract recipe I use one gallon of water for up to 1 1/2 lbs. of specialty grains. I bring the water up to 155F and then add the grains in the musslin sack, monitor the water to make sure it stays at around 155F add a little...

Happy New years Hop Vine, thanks for all the replies on the dry hops, now for my next dilema. What are yeast nutrients, how do they work and how much should I use? I have found a couple of web sites that sell them but no explaination on how to use them, any clarrification on this topic is greatly ap...

Yooper, I agree with Billy about your flavor problems, try putting your grain in a hop sack (musslin $.35 ea or so tie it tight so they can't escape)and "steep" at no more than 160F 150F-155F is optimum for 30-45 min., remove the sack place it in a clean collander and pour about 1/2 - 1 ga...

Hi Brewdude, I am searching for information on yeast nutrients and how they work, how much to use etc ... when I came aross this old posting you had on yeast culturing, I like what I read, and noticed that you stated that you hold your breath when pouring your yeast cultures into the bottle so that ...

WOW I thought that I was the only one that really missed that beer, I too am old enough to remember that great beer and wish I had a few cases too ... LOL ... anyway, I found these extract and all grain recipes at http://www.leeners.com this is taken right from that site, if you are not an all grain...

I am an experienced brewer going on 5 years now, and I have never dry hopped. I want to try it because there are flvors I am searching for and know that the only way to get it might be dry hopping. The question I have is do I use pellets in the secondary carboy or flowers, if I use flowers how do I ...

Hi, I can relate to your delema it happened to me and I paniced too. Don't worry, and don't panic. Chances are that if you had activity there is still something going on in your fermenter. I suspect that you have a very minor air leak in the cover of your ale pail, the high pressure was enough to pe...