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Hi everyone -- I picked up a pack of Wyeast 3942 recently, and here's the recipe. I'd be grateful for any suggestions. I'm not super-picky about style (though you can see I'm aiming at something Hoegaarden-esque), as long as I end up with a good beer. 7 lb organic wheat malt 3 lb pilsener...

Hi everyone -- a little while ago I brewed a sorta-SMaSH that turned out really well. Just one week after bottling, it was lovely: smooth mouthfeel, dry, low bitterness without being too malty, and no green flavour at all. It came across as a creamy taste...almost like a cream soda, but...

So right now I'm boiling the wort for my 3rd batch of beer. I thought I'd go partial-mash, following Death Brewer's excellent instructions. I'm making a dry Irish stout, with the recipe from my LHBS: 6.5 lb pale malt and 3 lb pale malt extract (partial mash) 1 lb Roasted Barley 1 lb...

Hi everyone -- I'm planning my third batch, and I've picked out a recipe from my LHBS: Grapefruit Bitter 7lb pale malt extract 12 oz carastan malt 4 oz wheat malt 1 oz Centennial bittering hops (60 minutes) 1.5 oz Centennial finishing hops Target gravity: 1.050 I'm going to be...

Welp, I bottled my first batch today with the help of my father-in-law, after three and a half weeks in the primary. It was a bit of a gong show...my T-Siphon leaked beer when the clamp I was using didn't; I forgot to add the sugar water, so I had to pour about two litres of beer back and go...

Hi everyone -- I did my first brew today after spending the last six months collecting Grolsch bottles and reading lots. (No, I don't obsess...) Things went pretty well, I think -- no boilovers, no obvious contamination (though I'll know for sure in a week or so), and no mess. Woot! The...