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I got a hop rhizome from my daughter a couple of years ago, purported to be Willamette, and just harvested about a pound of fresh hop cones. My question is, what kind of beer should I brew with this? I'm an intermediate all-grain brewer and like just about every style of beer I've ever...

I think I got this from the BYO website... Carissa Sweigart's Cranberry Wit 5 gallons/19 L, all-grain; OG= 1.046 FG= 1.011; IBU= 22 ABV= 4.4
 
Ingredients: • 4.5 lbs. (2 kg) of flaked wheat • 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) of Belgian Pilsner malt • 1 oz. (28 g) Sterling hops • 1 oz. (28 g)...

Going to Ireland for the trip of a lifetime in a week... want to drink a lot of the classics but also find about about the Ireland craft beer scene... anyone have any suggestions? Spending time in Dublin, then driving the south coast... then biking western Ireland (Galway City, Connemara,etc.)...

I just brewed a Bells Two Heart IPA and was so excited to use tons of this fresh leaf centennial hops that I had purchased from a local grower. Then I popped my first one yesterday... no hops... almost at all! No bitterness, no hoppy flavor, no hoppy aroma! Here's what I used: (all...

I've got a wedding to brew for in May, and a nice lager- temp basement at the moment, so would like to try a nice hoppy lager recipe. Jack's Abbey (Framingham, MA) brews a nice IPL (their designation) - very clean and hoppy. I'll probably try to contact them too. But does anyone have any...

Hi All - I've brewed for just over a year now and made some really good beers... and a few not so good. But the recipes sounded so delicious! I guess I just want to know if there is any way to look at a recipe and say, "this isn't going to turn out well." I'm brewing about once a month and...

Just brewed my first lager, a Negra Modelo clone. Mash, sparge, & boil all went great. I cooled wort to 60 F then pitched a 2 L Starter (from Wyeast 2124 Bohemian Lager) that I had prepping in my basement at about 55 F for 2 days or so. Fermentation seems to be going fine right now. My...

This is my 10th or so brew and no troubles so far till now. I just brewed a nice IPA with whole Cascade hops, chilled the wort to about 80F and pitched Safale US -05. 24 hrs no bubbles, 48 hrs no bubbles, 72 hrs no bubbles. (I'm using a plastic fermenting bucket.) I opened it up to check and...