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I'm making my first brew thats not all extract, but I don't have a mill. I'm worried about how I should break open the grains without a mill. Anybody out there have any tips for me?

I'll be bottling my beer in 2 weeks and was wondering what to prime my stout with to have a good thick head and nice retention. I know that the guy at my local HBS uses honey to prime to form a thick head, but he told me it takes him a month to prime. I was unsure if he meant that he beer had to...

I'm looking to brew a coffee flavored stout or porter in the next few weeks, anybody know of any recipes? Also I've seen many different suggestions on how to treat the coffee beans, some say to steep in room temperature water overnight, others say to crush the beans and add to the hot wort...

If you are trying to mature your beer in a secondary, is there any hard rule on how long you should leave it in there? Does it just depend on the style of ale? I only ask because I have heard many different times given, weeks, sometimes months, I even know a guy thats had a barleywine in a...

I brewed a new 5 gallon batch yesterday and put it in my primary, it has 1 oz of cascade hop pellets in it, however I somehow inexplicably didn't strain the hops out of the wort on its way to the primary. I do have a blow off tube and a lot of activity. Should I just strain my brew when I move...

Hi all, I'm new to this site and I've only been at this brewing thing for less than a year. I was just wondering if anybody had any recipes or ideas for the holiday season? Something that would be nice around Christmas. Thats all folks.