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Moved my hops this winter to a new location in a row about 30' long. Was going to build a simple 2 poled system with a taut wire between them until I tore a muscle in my arm a couple of weeks ago. Now my hops are sprouting and already vining a little bit and there is no way for me to get...

Very frustrated! I can't seem to avoid a grainy/corny flavor that happens after fermentation. I was meticulous in my brewing but when I went to check final gravity yesterday before bottling, ugh. The bad thing is before pitching yeast when I check the OG the stuff tasted great..malty, slight...

I'm looking for ideas/tips/advice on starting a homebrew club in my area. The nearest ones are approx. 100 miles away (or more). What do you recommend to get one started or finding people that might be interested? Cheers, Robert

Sorry if this isn't the best forum for this, but one batch was extract the other allgrain, so I didn't know where to post.... The last 2 brews I made (one all grain, one extract) have had a semi-strong off flavor after I keg/bottle. Both were simple American pale ales, using fresh ingredients...

I recently made the "15 Minute American Pale Ale" as described in the video podcast on the basicbrewing site here: http://www.basicbrewing.com/index.php?page=video Briefly, it's a simple extract recipe boiled for 15 minutes with higher concentrations of hops to make up for the shorter boil...

What is the easiest way of know when to stop filling a corny keg? I usually have more beer in the fermentor than will fit in the keg, and always seem to go a little bit too far filling the keg up. Then I end up making a mess when I have to purge the oxygen out when topping up with CO2. Is...

Ok, this is my 2nd BIAB after brewing on a 3V system for a number of years. On my "old" set up with an "EasyMasher" (or homemade clone) I would normally get 75% efficiency - easily. My first BIAB I calculated the OG at around 1038 and ended up 1028-1030. This time I increased the grain bill and...

After reading the news articles about the New York Public Library commissioning to have George Washington's beer recreated I am curious now about brewing back then. I can see where the hops and barley would have come from, how it was kept etc., but what about yeast? Where did they get yeast...

Before I was doing all grain brewing with a 3V system, and while the wort was boiling in the lowest kettle, I could get some boiling water out of the topmost kettle to sanitize my counter-flow chiller (25' of 3/8" copper tubing inside a garden hose). Now that I am going to BIAB, I won't have...

Have to keg this afternoon and just now found out I am out of both Star-san and iodophor. Is there any drugstore alternative for sanitizing a corny keg? Cheers

I've been brewing pale ales until I think I'm growing Cascade hops out of my ears! I want something easily quaffable like Yuengling lager. Not hoppy, good on a hot day, not strong alcohol wise. I can do lager fermentations no problem, and it needs to be an extract because it's too damn hot...

I'm new to kegging and started with one keg attached to a 20# tank about a month ago. A couple of weeks ago I moved my setup to a 7cf freezer with a 2nd keg and a 3 way gas distributor from NB. So far, so good. I then added a 3rd keg to the setup last week that only had 3 gallons of beer in...

I'm new to kegging and trying to figure out the best way for me to go about it. One question I can't seem to get my mind around is what happens to the beer, once carbonated, when the CO2 line is disconnected? I understand that eventually there will not be enough pressure to push the beer out...

I m making a quick batch tonight with some leftover ingredients. But the total volume will only be about 3 gallons. Is it ok to keg 3 gallons in a 5 gallon corny and carbonate the normal way? Any gotchas? Cheers.

Ok, I'm trying to figure out what the gravity and IBU's are on this recipe and have used beercalculus, tastybrew, and brewpal (iphone) to try and estimate what my results should be. All three came up with wildly different results and I don't understand why. Recipe - Rye Pale Partial Mash --...

I am looking for a chart showing the modern varieties of hops and how they were derived / created from other varieties. A sort of "hop family tree", if such a thing exists. I found an old example, for English varieties, and incomplete, but it would be something similar to the one in here...

I am looking for a chart showing the modern varieties of hops and how they were derived / created from other varieties. A sort of "hop family tree", if such a thing exists. I found an old example, for English varieties, and incomplete, but it would be something similar to the one in here...

I am getting ready to go for it with my first draft system in cornelius kegs. I have read a lot, probably too much about draft systems and am only slightly more confused now than when I started! In any case, I understand about using a carbonation table with temperature vs. pressure. My...

At what point would you definitely toss a bag of uncrushed malt that has been kept dry and in mid 60's F? (in weeks/months/years? etc.) Cheers

Wife & I will be in SF area in may for few days vacation. Looking for general recommendations of pubs, inns, b&b's etc. Prefer a hotel with a good pub/lounge/bar that makes it nice to end a day adventuring unwinding in the pub. Are there such places in N. California / San Francisco area!? Best I...