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Read someone's post a while back about trying to ruin a batch of beer. Here's my random saturday bored experiment attempt to create a beer without a style and incorporate multiple yeasts and maybe some wild yeast/bacteria. I did use sanitizer on all my equipment but generally did not put so much...

I love Ommegang's Hennepin farmhouse style saison and never pass up the opportunity to order one on draft. Since it's getting warmer I've decided to go with the flow and try to brew something similar to this high-gravity Belgian style beer. I found this clone recipe from The Replicator, but it...

Hey! Originally from LI but I've now moved up to Plattsburgh, NY. Just bought a premium membership and wanted to reintroduce myself. Formerly known as glas9396 I now go by dubbel dutch, yay! check out our music project on myspace http://www.myspace.com/dubbeldutch :fro:

Listened to this interesting radio interview on Vermont Public Radio today while driving down to NYC and it got me thinking about local beer. The author of The Taste of Place, Amy Trubek, discussed the importance of how locally produced foods can create a unique signature taste the really...

I'm a 22 year-old home brewer and it seems like every time I go into a home brew shop I get a sort of cold holier-than-thou-youngster treatment. Last shop I went to the guy pedantically talked to me like I knew absolutely nothing about brewing and tried to sell me things I didn't need without...

So I set out to make my first partial mash batch today... after the boil I decided that since it's still pretty cold outside here in northern New York I ought to take advantage of the biggest refrigerator in the world and cool my hot wort in the great outdoors (my back porch). I went back...

I just threw together a stir plate real quick with old parts lying around but I don't have a stir bar... anybody know what I might be able to use for one or what they're made out of? (I know they're cheap... I'll probably just end up buying one) Seems like it's just a little magnetic bar...

I'm sure someone has posted some like this before but I came across it online. It's a carboy stirrer made from a long plastic dowel that fits into a power drill (great for removing co2 prior to bottling or general mixing). You take one end of the dowel place it in boiling water and then...

In preparation to stabilize my mead I've done a little reading and found that I may want to add campden tablets as they provide the sulfites necessary for yeast attrition. I k-sorbed the mead a few days ago and the airlock is now chugging once every 10 mins. I want to backsweeten and...

I'm planning a small batch (3 gallons) of an IPA type beer and I'm wondering if a blow-off tube will take away some of the hop flavors. Is there anything wrong with leaving enough room in the carboy for the krausen to settle down rather than use a blow-off tube? thanks!

I'm visiting Indianapolis and wondering where all the brew shops are... any Indianapolites on here that can point me in the right direction?

Been dreaming about making this for a while. The idea of a really hoppy mead entices me, as I feel like dropping a ton of hops in a high alcohol mead could be the perfect balance to its sweetness. I just wanted to open up the floor for any suggestions you guys may have for my recipe here. For...

Anyone ever use these ones with the bullets inside?

Is there any exact science to how much DME extract to add for reaching a desired gravity reading? For example, if I wanted to make 3 gallons of beer with an original gravity of 1.044 how much DME would I have to add? After doing some research the formula I've adapted for this is: ( x...

As we all probably agree there is no substitute for hops in beer. But since hops are so expensive right now are there any kinds of herbs brewers like you are using to impart bitterness or flowery-hop flavor to your poorman's hopless brew? I'm do not intend for this to be another thread...

Ok, so my mead's been bubbling away in primary for a couple of days now, do you think it's too late to throw some oranges and raisins in there? Or should they be sterilized in some way first? My gut tells me to just chuck them in and most likely nothing too bad will come of it.

First shot. I decided to try a mead because of the expense of hops these days. Just wanted to get some feedback on if this was a good recipe because I kind of winged it... 10 pounds of cheap honey. 4.5 gallons of water. Juiced (2 pears, 1 orange, 10 kumquats) a dash of lime juice 3 bags...

I noticed a light brown sludge at the bottom of the blow-off bucket after pouring out the settled foam, is this yeast, and if so will having this yeast lost affect the vigor of the fermentation? Could someone point me in the direction of creating a more alcoholic beer? I think you need to add...

Hi my name is Marc and I just started doing the homebrew thing. I've started three five gallon extract brews so far (so I've got 15 gallons of beer awaiting consumption). And after seeing the results of my first batch I decided to come here so I could learn how to make a better brew (grain teks)...