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so I recenttly brewed anawsome ipa and they've now been in the bottle for around 4 weeks or so the ones I havnt drank..they were perfectly fine until about a week ago I took a couple for tasting with a buddy of mine who also brews..I popped one up for his him and it went nuts and foam poored all...

Gimmie a Bigfoot!

I don't know what I did but all my brews have been coming out a little winey and as soon as I started trying to make my own recipes things have been lookin up.. I got a Sierra Nevada ruthless and two homebrews poored out in front of me and i cant decide which one to drink so I've been sippin on...

What exactly are alpha acids? And how do you equate your hops properly for additions? I'm making a scatch amber ale extract with amber dme crisp amber malt with some flaked barley.. All the hops I have are left overs..1gram of cascade...3 grams citra 1 gram sazz and a little bit of Amarillo...I...

So my steeping bag touched the bottom of my kettle and Burnt a good size whole in the bag is my batch still ok or have I poisoned my batch can anyone help me? Thanx

Well I added 2 and a half gallons of water to my 8 gallon kettle steeped my grains turner a round grabbed anothe water to poor in and as I turned a around I notice the bag was touching the bottom of the pot and burnt a hole threw it..pretty big hole .. I figured not I could to fix it and...

I just left my local hbs and picked up ingredients to make an "easy street wheat" clone.. It's an extract/grain recipe and it called for a yeast starter. Not sure what that is but I assume it kick starts the yeast after being pitched. Anyways I figured IDE by another vile of white labs German...

So check it out fellas and ladies I don't have very much brewing under my belt but have made a a decent west coast pale ale and American hef. I have a sweet stout another American hef and dunklewiezen in the closet..that's cool and all but I've done what most newer brewers do and decided to...

So last night we brewed a batch of dunklewiezen.. The recipe that I bought with came with a pacet of dry yeast. The directions called for heating up too 100 degrees in one cup of water. So I pitched the yeast and stirred it popped the top to the fermentater on. I saw no bubbling in the aerator...

Ok so I brewed a five g batch of so kolsch beer and I fermented it 3 weeks In the primarythen bottled in 24 oz bottles about 25 for the 5 gallon batch will the carbonation take longer about the same I heard somewhere it took 8 months for someones brew to properly carbonate to drinking status...

I wanted to brew a strawberry blonde wheat beer this weekend and I know alot of people rock out the frozen or canned stuff from the local brew shop. But I wanted fresh fruit seeing as Ill probably be adding some honey from the bee garden as well. Trying to keep it somewhat organic minus the the...

So this was my 4th batch .I brewed a sweet stout kit but this is my first time using a dry yeast. So I did each step accordingly until it came time to pitch the yeast. I ended up pitching without hydrating it. Will this be a problem? It's been about four days the aerator is bubbling and theirs a...