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In late August, my offer was accepted on a house, and in the end of October they finally let me close on the place (long story, not worth it). Moving my beer fridge meant disassembling most of it, and its been in an out-of-sight/out-of-mind state since then. Yesterday, I finally got fed up...

This hobby is amazing. I always seem to find something new and interesting to do with this hobby. I started with extract kits, like many do, and quickly became bored with it. Perhaps bored isn't the word, but I wasn't saving money with the kits i was buying, and I wasn't getting the high...

I don't know how often this might happen, but I just went and grabbed my thermometer out of my bucket with a small amount of Starsan water in it (been sitting since last weekend when I brewed). I don't know why I didn't get everything out of it, but there it was. Pulled it out, and went to...

This afternoon I got a call from my girlfriend who was on the way back from vising her sister, with her parents. I had taken her down to visit her sister and brought along some of my home brews for her sister and brother-in-law to sample. Evidently her brother-in-law raved about the beer, and...

Well, by some miracle, I was able to spool up enough yeast from a bottle of Shakespeare Stout and Yellow Snow to ferment 10 gallons of cream ale. That was three and a half weeks ago. At terminal gravity, I kegged both of those this evening* and proceeded to wash the pacman yeast. I can't...

This past weekend, my girlfriend and I were visiting her sister and brother-in-law, and I decided to bring along some of my homebrew because, well, why not? I brought along a few bottles of my cream ale, Irish red ale, stout and porter. Turns out her brother-in-law isn't a huge stout fan, so...

I've been enjoying my pale ale brew for a while, but for the last week or two its been dispensing very slowly. I've been dreading pulling it and trying to fix what I assumed was a clog in the dip tube - though I didn't see how there could be a clog. I tried swapping taps, and the new one was...

I attempted my first ever starter last night, and one spun up from the leftovers in a bottle of Rogue Shakespeare Stout and a bottle of Rogue Yellow Snow (the stout had a far better return than the IPA for me). I stepped it up a few times, because I was getting set for a 10 gallon batch, and I...

So I thought I'd be content with brewing more, then I got a kegging setup. It seems to have gone all down hill from there. First the kegs, then the shanks, faucets, drip try, bottle opener, cap catcher. Fridge is done. Then I bought more kegs. Got our corona grain mill in a few weeks ago...

I've been home brewing on and off for the last several years. The first two brews were done while I was in college. Scrimped to save up for a kit, choked at the price when I factored in the risk that they'd not turn out well. Only knocked down two batches while I was in college and then it...

I don't know what I thought was so difficult/mystical about the whole process, but I'm kicking myself for not doing this before. I washed the yeast from an Irish Red I brewed a few weeks ago, and then re-used two jars right away for a modified version of the Cream of Three Crops yesterday...

Yesterday, my brother and a mutual friend of ours got together for the first of what we hope to be monthly brewing sessions from here on out. I've never done more than two brews in a single day, nor have I ever done an all grain batch (BIAB), so there were definitely some learning curves here...

I'm going to try NOT making this like every other infection thread I've read, because it seems to get asked quite often. Long story short: Brewed October 23th and it sat in primary for 3 weeks. About a week before secondary, I sliced and scraped the vanilla beans and soaked them in 80 proof...

I've been a member here for a while, but mostly a lurker largely due to the facet that college, graduation, and work had gotten in the way of me brewing. Before recent history, I'd only brewed two batches of beer over the course of 4 years. Recently, a buddy of mine and I dug out my carboys...