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I may. Be digging up some old info here. With my willamette plant coming up I am already looking forward to harvest. I wanted to know if I can dry the hops over a cold smoke? To perhaps alter their character.

So I have developed a recent and serious interest in taking and passing the BJCP exams. But what I haven't seen much written about, is what happens after the test? You test, pass, and....? Anybody here pass the exams? And have any thoughts? What does passing this enable you to do? Was it worth...

So I brewed Midwest's California Common and made a couple of additions to the recipe including some pale 2-row, Vienna and Wheat malts. Used the dry yeast (bad Idea) Transferred it over to glass last night and... it's not the greatest beer ever. There is something about it (perhaps lager...

So I have a partial mash California Common coming up but I'm struggling to justify the recipe. If the style in theory is a lager fermented at ale temps. Why then do most versions call for crystal malt and other darker grains? Should it not be a straight forward lager recipe, malt, hop, mash...

My LHBS stocks Dried Banana Powder. They say it's for wine, has anybody used it in beer?

I have a cream ale in a carboy that won't stop fermenting! it had gone from 1.049 to 1.011 in a week and a half. I transferred it glass. all was good, I went away for the weekend and came back to a layer of foam and bubbles in the airlock. So I draw off a sample and check, tastes great and the...

Any thoughts on purchasing a homebrew supply shop as a business?

I have this jar a friend gave me labeled" Eden Organic Traditional Barley Malt Syrup" the ingredients couldn't be easier. Organic sprouted barley, water. But can I brew with it? Or has anybody else brew with it?

So I'm getting married in two weeks and most of my guests will receive a bottle of homebrew as a gift after the reception. I have one friend who does not drink and I'm looking for ideas for a beverage for her. She's not big into soda, so I was thinking iced tea, but that stuff can come...

Could you save some cider while it is still sweet and use it to prime a batch of cider when bottling, and would it follow the same rules for beer?

Any ideas on mixing soda extracts? I have a few partial bottles kicking around and they're looking for some kind of adventure.

I hate bottling, and all the time I spend doing it. The guy at the homebrew shop recommended the Party pig. Has anybody used this system? and How'd it go?

Hello all, I just joined Midwest supplies' kit of the month club, kinda cool (but corny) Idea. Does anybody else use it and what are your thoughts?

So I have a wheat beer coming up on my honey-brew list. And I have this box of Wheatena, where the ingredients read as follows: "Toasted crushed whole wheat, wheat bran, wheat germ, and calcium carbonate" So can I brew with this stuff? and save myself a trip to the supply shop?

Two threads in 10 minutes, I'm hooked. So I have brewed a watermelon Belgian inspired wheat ale, the Belgian-melon as I call it. And like a smartass, thinking I could sanitize 10LBs of water melon with campden tabs and then rack the beer on to it. I killed the yeast. How do I know I killed...

Hello all, My first post and I could be in the wrong area for this but I need to.. Stop the infection from spreading! Ok, so it's not that bad. I'm setting up a spare carboy as a solera of sorts, I plan to add a little from each batch, and take out only when I run out of room. I have a...