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Fruit flies seem to be drawn to this stuff like its CRACK. and sometimes as hard as I try, the little buggers get in my brew and ruin a batch. And when you open the pantry and theres a swarm in there, its really obnoxious. Here is the recipie for the PERFECT fruit fly trap. in a serving...

Ive actually been useing babies off the same culture for a couple years now, had no idea this stuff was as complex as ive been reading. (the extent of my knowlege was its a bunch of happy critters that love sugar and tea, so being a homebrewer, it just seemed like I ought to try it, well, i like...

You name your carboys.... Its an anique, has OZONE drinking water cast into the glass, have no idea how old it is or if its worth anything (worth alot to me, I love my carboys) So I named it Ozzy. now to think of a name for the other one....

I tried malting my own, everything went great till I tried to dry it, first I made a couple LBs of crystal malt,I think it worked well, then let the oven cool back down and spread the rest out on trays and put it in useing just the piolot light for heat, its about 90 degF in there and overnight...

The brew fairy donated 14 lbs of 6 row local organic winter barley to me this weekend. He said no catch, just let me know how it turns out. Ive done some reading, and a bit of research online, and it sounds pretty darn easy to malt my own.. I lost about a pound rinsing, lots of bugs, stalk...

I found that some hospitals use GSE (grapefruit seed extract) for a sanitizer, it kills things bleach wont touch, really expensive, but a tiny bit goes a long way, like a few drops for a carboy. Ive been useing it for a while now, and no spoilage. anybody else tried it yet?

I have a Lambic Kreik brewing right now, and I found that using cherry puree might have been a mistake, I have tons of sediment, I tried to rack it a second time after three weeks in the secondary, and found the bottom 4 or 5 inches is syrupy goop, and impossible to leave behind without...

here it is, the result of my very first batch. And I must say, it tasts great, im never buying beer again, (unless its for the bottles, or a beer emergency) this stuff turned out better than I ever expected, considering I fudged the recipie due to lack of supplies.

ok, Ive been brewing wine for a long time, and mead for a while now. Now I feel its time to take a whack at beer. I do things the simple way. I dont even own a hydrometer, nor do I know how to use one, I feel its just a way to measure content, and I figure if Im drunk, then it worked. most...

hi, been makin wine since high shool (solved the whole underage buying problem) for a year or so now ive been cookin up baches of mead, and now I want to learn to make that bittersweet nectar of the gods,... BEER,