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After about 3-4 weeks of bottle conditioning, and several hours in the refrigerator, I am drinking one of these beers and it is delicious! It is unbelievably smooth, like drinking silk or velvet. It smells herbal and cinnamony. It no longer tastes sour. It's slightly reminiscient of a pumpkin...

I didn't have any hops but I really wanted to brew. So I decided to try a gruit. There's a wiccan store within walking distance of my apartment that sells a bunch of herbs, so I bought some. I just opened it up today to check the gravity after 3 weeks of fermentation, and decided to try a...

+1 812 Broke my first hydrometer before I ever got to use it. :( Why do they make the glass so goddamn thin!

Well a few drops of myrrh didn't kill the yeast. Its bubbling away like crazy. :ban: I figure it probably dissolved I mean its the essential oils in hops that give hop flavor and aroma. If anything, all the proteins and stuff probably form an emulsion with the oils. There's also...

I just put a couple drops into the beer I'm making right now, 5 minutes before the end of the boil. I don't know if I put enough for the taste to really come through, but I was afraid of killing the yeast. I don't know how many of you have ever tasted myrrh before, but I feel it has a similar...

I have two questions. First, is it possible to use essential oils during the boil to flavor the beer? I mean obviously they are normally insoluble in water, but I thought, perhaps at high enough temperatures they might dissolve. Although maybe they would just precipitate back out of solution...

So that's not what yeast is supposed to look like? I honestly have no idea what the first signs of yeast rafts or krausen in a starter are supposed to look like.

Hi I'm about to brew my first batch of beer and I am attempting to harvest the yeast from a bottle of westmalle. I put the tail end of the bottle into some LME solution, and shook it up real good and nothing happened. I continued to shake it occasionally for the next 3-4 days and still nothing...

Hello, I am new to homebrewing and would like to get in on one of these group buys. I want a bags of: CM‐SPIL CM‐2ROW also, 5S‐STAR*‐*32 ounce I'm in Frederick and would greatly appreciate it if anyone from around here with room in their car wouldn't mind bringing back...