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16715+ 5 = 16720. Yipee!

for my first few batches, I used a smaller style tea-ball, and yeah, the hop pellets expanded so much that nothing ended up making it to the wort. The tea balls that I'm telling people work great here are like 4" tall and 4" round... for an ounce or so of pellets, there is tons and tons of...

What didn't you like about them?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-LARGE-MESH-TEA-INFUSER-SPICE-BALL-POT-KETTLE-4-D_W0QQitemZ110282778837QQihZ001QQcategoryZ20651QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262 Get yourself 2 or 3 of those bad boys. They work GREAT! With the 8" chain, you can hang them right on the rim of the pot...

...so those of you who condition in a keg, do you purge the pressure through the relief valve at any point, or do you just let it build up? I'm about to rack my first lager (maibock) to a secondary, and was pretty much just going to put it in another glass carboy and crank my kegerator to it's...

I do Extract/Partial Mash kits, and I boil a full 5 gallons. I use a turkey fryer, and I too had a scorch problem with my very first batch. After that, I picked up a big 24" Stainless Wire Whisk from a Restaurant Supply Shop. Now, I simply remove the wort from the burner, add the...

don't forget as well, with most citrus, you want to add only the colored part of the rind. ...the inner, whiter part will impart a much more bitter flavor onto the finished product. ...at least it does in normal cooking, and can only assume that Beermaking is the same.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. It's funny... I find that this is an awful lot like raising kids in the aspect that everybody's got an opinion on how to do it, and the ideas are often VERY different. People like the guy that runs my LHBS are very, VERY knowledgeable, but when I take...

Today I asked my resident expert at my LHBS about adding LME late in the boil to keep caramelization to a minimum. ...he said that it's fine, but that if you don't do a full 60 minute boil with DME or LME you'll run the risk of a cloudy beer because the proteins that cause haze don't really...

Honestly, go get yourself some fine steel wool (or even a Scotch-Brite nylon scrubbie), and a product called "Barkeeper's Friend." It's a light abrasive cleaner that works GREAT on stainless. I'd throw an inch or so of water in the pot, bring it up to a boil and try to scrape as much off...

yeah, I'm sure I will at some point. This is my 2nd batch, with a few more on deck. Got the Corney Keg setup (as I dove right into the hobby). I'm sure that once I gain a little more confidence with all of the procedures, I'll switch to all-grain. Thanks for the tips!

Hi! First post, and this looks like a GREAT forum. Tons of helpful people, and tons of traffic. I did a quick search, and I apologize if this has been covered someplace and I missed it. I've been brewing kits (Malt Extract with 1-2lbs. dry grain), and doing a full volume 5-gallon boil. I...