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Yes the old wives tales are true. Beer does increase milk supply. Specifically, the barley and the hops. The B vitamins in the yeast are also good for making milk more nutritious. Oatmeal and fenugreek are also known galactagogues. So I wanted to make a beer specifically geared for boosting...

Yeah, it was worth it. I pretty much just substituted spent grains instead of breadcrumbs. It seems really wet when it's raw, but the grains absorb more than you think they will, so the danger is your meatloaf could get overly dry if you add too much. So have a decent sauce ready just in...

Is there any reason I can't just use 5 gallons of apple juice and a dose of yeast, without adding anything else? Maybe a few cinnamon sticks, but that's it.

I'm just curious as to where individual preferences lie. All else being equal, do you prefer to drink ales or lagers? Personally, 99.9% of the beers I like are ales. I only ever met one lager that I truly enjoyed. But to be fair, the only reason I drank that lager was because it was at a...

Midwest accidentally sent me an extra kit this month. It's a basic porter kit. I want to play around with it, and I'm thinking of racking it into 5 separate 1-gallon jugs with different adjuncts. Here's what I've come up with so far: Chocolate Covered Cherry Porter - make compote from...

First, I almost forgot to add the starsan to the water before sanitizing 48 bottles. Then after filling 8 or 9 bottles, I realized I forgot to add the priming sugar. Then I tried capping a bottle that didn't actually have a cap on it. Seriously, anything you've ever heard about pregnant...

I love the little vials! So good for repurposing. I recently started brewing, so I've only collected four so far, but I foresee amassing quite a hoard of them. Share with me your most clever uses for these little gems. I make my own shampoo and the vial is perfect for mixing it up. I fill...

I will be brewing Midwest's 80 /- kit and would like to add a whiskey barrel flavor. Everything I find online calls for actual whiskey barrel chips, but I don't have this. My plan was to soak oak chips in scotch, but I need a little guidance. How much oak should I use? How long should I soak...