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Hi all, Had an awesome time at my friend's lakehouse this past weekend and we got the crazy idea of letting a few bottles of beer age at the bottom of the lake over the winter and then diving down and getting them in late spring. This is our plan: Make a big beer, either a barleywine or...

I've been wanting to add a large hopper to my grain mill for some time, and my friend just brought over and left me a large, plastic 5-gallon water bottle that I'm going to use for the hopper itself. So I already have a JSP mill similar to this one that I've motorized...

Hey guys, Just got back from the ski resort last night and found the top half of a broken ski pole near the lift and took it home, figuring I could make a pretty sweet tap handle out of it for the kegerator. I've got it home and have just sawed the broken end off of it and now I've got a...

So I recently brewed two beers, a black IPA and a double IPA, and both of them have had some small issues with their flavor. There's just something a little bit off about both of them in terms of their bitterness and a grassy-sort of strange harshness, and I'm trying to nail it down to...

Hey guys, This is an interesting one a friend in our homebrewers club posed to me the other day, and I've never had experience with it myself: Say you wash your yeast off a batch, and that batch is a darker beer - in their case a robust porter - and plan to use that washed yeast again in...

My fiancee had a crazy and somewhat awesome idea the other day - blueberry vanilla ale. She wants it for Valentines Day. If you had to brew this recipe, how would you do it? Just looking for some fun suggestions and thoughts before jumping into this one.

Hey all, Thanks to the awesome joshjv here on the forums, I have a culture of Conan bubbling away nicely in a starter and I'm about to step it up to 1500 mLs either tonight or tomorrow morning to brew on Thursday afternoon. Here's my question though - I really want to get those nice...

Hi guys, Like the thread says, I just got a "new" 15 gallon bourbon barrel for free from a distiller friend. It was sitting in a truck trailer for a month before I picked it up. I know I'm going to have to fill it with water before I use it so it expands and doesn't leak and probably won't...

Hi all, I know there's a lot of buzz going on around The Alchemist's Heady Topper, and it is definitely a great beer, however why I'm really looking for a "fresh or fresh-er" can of it is so that I can culture the Conan yeast for use in our homebrewing club so that we can have a competition...

Was gonna give it a try today for kicks since I have a bottle lying around and it looks unfiltered - I know most of their bombers are. Anyone had any experience with this yeast?

5 lbs. German pilsner malt 5 lbs. American 2-Row pale 2 lbs. Wheat malt 0.5 lbs. Flaked Rye 0.5 oz. Centennial @ 60 MIN 1/2 tsp. Irish Moss @ 15 MIN 1 oz. Amarillo @ 1 MIN 0.5 oz. Centennial @ 1 MIN 0.25 oz. of each Parsley, White Sage, Rosemary, and Lemon Thyme @ 1 MIN (optionally...

Has anyone used the red New Mexico chili peppers in a beer before? If so, what were your results? I was hoping they would have Guajillo at the store, but did not. These looked similar and had similar characteristics to Guajillo, so I just picked them up while I could. If nothing else...

Hey guys - So I got a pretty late start this year on my Oktoberfest and didn't end up brewing it until about the 6th of October. Just racked it over into the keg and on first taste it was a little fruity/solventy. I'm chocking this up to the 1-3 day period where this beer was at 66-68 F...

Alright, so i just got some brass fittings and a friend of mine told me to let them soak in a mixture of 1 part hydrogen peroxide and 2 parts vinegar. I did this, but he did not specify how long to let them sit, and I got home and brought them out after about 6 hours after being out for the...

These things, honestly, look like glorified garbage cans, but I'm thinking about using one for a big, 15 gallon batch i'm doing with friends. Most of them don't even come with lids and I haven't seen one yet that comes with a hole for the airlock. They're supposedly mostly used for wine -...

hey again, just a question for those of you that have been kegging for a while: I mostly do partial mash batches due to time and ease, and have now kegged my fourth and fifth batches since I started kegging. However, I'm noticing in the few beers I still have left on tap that I tapped in...

Hey guys - It's that time again for our local homebrew club to plan our quarterly competitions for next year - just wondering if anyone out there has some interesting ideas or input for new competitions we could have or if you've entered any recently that are pretty interesting in their own...

hey guys, i'm brewing up a batch of 60-shilling scotch ale for a competition in mid january - i was wondering what your thoughts would be on how long this beer should age? i'm thinking of brewing it in early december, letting it sit in primary for about 2-2 1/2 weeks and then sit in the keg...

Just looking for some general insights from anyone with thoughts. I judged a competition this past monday and it really struck me just how much aroma is counted towards the final score of the beer by BJCP guidelines - 12 points - only 8 points away from flavor's 20 - and that it's something...

well guys, i finally did it. i built my kegerator. i kegged my beer. it's on tap and just as beautiful as i imagined it. couldn't be happier. :mug: especially since i really loathe bottling and the fact that i don't have to do it anymore is thrilling, to say the least. however, starting...