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I was just about to have the most perfect brewday. One of those only legends describe. No intruptions, perfect weather, good jazz music playin, hit every temp on the nose etc... Then the god of brewing reared his (its) ugly head and batted an eye in my general direction. As I was...

About a month ago I brewed a Chocolate Stout using 9 oz of nonfat cocoa powder. Everything turned out fine but last night I did a gravity reading/ taste test and found that it was extremely bitter. I had it in primary for two and a half weeks followed by one week in secondary with a...

So tonight I get home from my shift and am excited about tomorrows brew day. In preparation I know I need to get 9 lbs of grain crushed and get the essentials ready and checked. Then I noticed something moving in the grain bag. I took a closer look to find that it was a single weevil. At...

So I just adopted a new dog. He's a 1 1/2 year old Carolina/Dingo/Desenji and I cannot think of a good name for him. I would like it to be beer related:D any thoughts? [/url][/IMG]

So I kegged my first beer tonight and it was everything I could ever imagine it to be. Yeah i did the fast way...but that's because I'm new and I had to see my result. When I get used to it I'll probably age it a bit more. Sometimes the anticipation just gets to me you know... Anywho the...

So in a couple of weeks ill be moving from an apartment to a three bedroom house!!:ban: but.... unfortunatly it doesnt have a garage, or screened in porch (most houses/ apartments in charleston do except this one...go figure) and no deck. Soooo, this is making me rethink things. The SWMBO is...

So im finally moving from a crappy apartment to a house with a backyard and of course the first thing I think about is starting a hop garden. So I guess a little background is needed. I currently live in Charleston, Sc and we've been having fairly warm days with high humidity (somtimes even...

This is my fourth all grain brew and ive ran into, what I hope is not, a problem. Everything went fine for the first half. Figured out my temps and sparge water etc... Boiled my water..hit my temps... However I forgot to preheat my sparge water to 170 F. So I put my first runnings into an...