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I am looking to brew up a Mexican style Vienna lager this weekend. Just a small batch. Here is what I am looking at, suggestions welcome. What I have on hand, 2-row, Pale ale, Vienna, Pilsner, Aromatic, Munich, red wheat, rye, 20/40/60/90/120L crystal malt, coffee, chocolate, roasted barley...

One of my few disappointing beers I brewed early on was a Roggen beer about 2 years ago. I used S33 and way too much C20. Too sweet, no phenolics. This time around I am using WLP380 Hefe IV yeast, which BTW is a beast. I haven't brewed with it in at least 6-months since I made a hefe around...

Now that I finally have a chest freezer and my own basket in it for my "beering" as my oldest son likes to call it (as in "Daddy, you need to stop beering!"*), I can buy bulk hops! I already have a vacuum sealer. I've gotten a couple of 8oz and some 2oz hops from Morebeer when ordering grains...

I did see a couple of threads, but I think the newest was 2+ years old. My neighbor hunts. Mostly bow hunting the last few years. I am looking at going with him this fall when bow hunting season opens (maybe not the first weekend). I've figured out everything I need to do in advance for MD...

Okay, I am trying to decide between two different styles of stouts to brew this Sunday. The yeast is WLP005 English Ale yeast (non-negotiable, that is the English yeast I have on hand, and I am not about to culture a slant from the Nottingham I have in my milds). I am thinking about either...

I am trying to figure out what the heck to brew next weekend. I'll be back a day early from my in-laws, so I can brew Sunday night. Since I CAN brew, I will brew. I don't happen to have a hefe or dry english stout ready to drink...and I have an urge for both. So, thoughts? Brew the hefe...

Fairly new job, fortunately temporary for only another 5 months before I move on to a different one (leadership program at work). Sadly, instead of an office, this one detail I am stuck back in a cube again. Next to a rather nice gentleman who sounds like a dog slobbering on ground meat when he...

Our of curiousity for all of the electric brewers out there, I haven't found a whole lot, but what kind of heating times are you running with different sized elements? My quickie poor back of the napkin math says that a 1500w element would take somewhere around an hour to heat 5 gallons of...

Does anyone else have it when they don't have anything in the fermenter? I just bottled a split batch mild testing out S04 vs Notty. I counted and I have 207 beers on my shelves, not including bombers and growlers, which probably contributes another 3-4 gallons of beer between them. I now...

I've seen many people claim that harvested yeast, vials, etc. lose roughly 25% viability per month fridge stored. I am wondering, how do people use/store their yeast and how long are they willing to use yeast after it was "fresh"? I just started making oversized starters/harvesting and...

Possibly a silly question, but every use of a hopback I have seen or heard of is using either a pump to transfer the wort, or pushing it through using CO2 to a keg. Is it possible to use a hopback with a simple siphon to a bottling bucket? Or are the hops going to provide too much resistance...

So I'll lead with I pretty much only use pellet hops. What does everyone do? Has anyone done it both ways and what differences have you found? The only times I never used a hop bag was WAYYYYY back when I did a couple of brew kits a couple of years ago. Pros, cons? I feel like a pro is...

So I can't really think of an appropriate place to put this one, but I have a question on gushers. A couple of times I've brewed a batch the beer was massively over carbed (never had bottle bombs, knock on wood). I've more or less fixed that issue with too much bottling sugar and/or...

So my wife has been abducted and replaced with a superior model while she was on vacation. I bring up how I'd like to get a mill and buy grain in bulk, because big savings (ignore the fact that it means I can brew more because I have stuff all the time, there for not need to run to LHBS every...

This weekend was a dang mess. First I had planned to pitch slurry from my pilsner that I was bottling on Saturday for a schwarzbier as well as an English Pale Lager. I had just finished mashing in when I got the pilsner out for bottling. Opps, almost zero slurry because I had transfered it to...

So I have some "extra ingredients" that I feel like using, so I thought I'd make a bastard brew. I've got a pilsner I am bottling this weekend, so I can pitch the slurry (half is going in to a schwarzbier I am brewing saturday and half this BPL). I also have a couple of types of british hops...

I need some suggestions on a Schwarzbier I am planning on brewing this weekend. I've come up with the general recipe, but in doing some reading on Schwarzbiers, a lot of sources recommend using Carafa I/II/III with II being prefered. However, I was thinking of using Black Prinz instead. I...

My wife suggested a few days ago, "Hey, when we put the addition on the house in a couple of years, since we are moving the laundry to the new mud room in the addition...why don't you convert the old laundry room to a brewing room" :confused: Who are you and what have you done with my...

It has been quite awhile now, but I am thinking of doing a two brew day in a few weekends. Wife and kids are going to be away for the weekend/week and I have a number of brews I want to get through (basically all of my spring brewing). I have two mini fridges right now and one I want to use...

So, I am planning on brewing one up in a few weeks using a sour mash. Any ideas on a yeast to use (targetting 1.035OG). I was thinking a Kolsch yeast originally, but now I am kind of leaning towards plain old S-05. It attenuates well and at lower fermentation temps is pretty clean. Thoughts...