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It's nothing fancy. I based it off of Westmalle's lables. It's easy to modify and very flexible. My logo needs help, for sure, as I'm not much of a graphic designer.

Hey I'm trying to get SWMBO interested in brewing. For her first batch, she said she wants to clone Abby de Leffe's dark beer, which is not available in Austin and I have never had. Has anyone here had it? Could anyone approximate a recipe? I only have the gear for partial mash brewing...

Okay, so I just racked my blonde ale from secondary to the keg. The secondary was cold crashed so it was close to 35 deg in the keg. I turn up the pressure to 25 psi and shook the piss out of the keg. I hear the regulator pushing extra co2 into the beer for about 2 minutes, finished up with a...

I'm trying to save some time tonight since I'm having to brew on a weekday evenning. I'm doing a partial mash and plan to start the boil (3 gallons) with all my sugars in at the same time that I start the grain mashing (2 gallons, with sparge water). Then I'll add the mashed grains to the wort...

I'm bottling a barley wine and want to make a lable that mimicks traditional wine lables: the kind where there's a monochrome sketch of a vinyard or chateau in the center with basic print layouts of the brew and bottler. Does anyone know how to achieve that type of effect in the abscence of...

I'm all for reusing homebrew byproducts and limiting the amount of processed chemicals I put in my brew. I was wondering if I could just use a chunk of trub from my previous batch as nutrient in my starter for the next batch? I'll probably put it through a couple freeze and thaw cycles and...

I added ~1.5 lb of dried fruits to my strong ale last week when I tranfered to secondary. It produced an unexpectedly long fermentation (still going though very slowly after 9 days) that will have a big effect on the ABV. Does anyone know how I can estimate the final ABV? What can I do in the...

For my next home brew project I've been thinking about doing some side by side comparisons. I have a good palate for distiguishing one beer from another and describing them qualitatively, but I'm not familiar with how individual ingridients lend character to the finished product. Though I've...

I just made a batch this weekend with a mix of spring water taken from the spillway at Barton Springs. I thought it would make the beer a really authentic Austin brew. I went early in the morning the same day of the brewing so there weren't more than 6 people in the pool (thought that might...