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The 2012 GBS Champion of the Pint Homebrew Competition will be held March 31, 2012 at the O'Fallon Brewery in O'Fallon, MO. Entries are due March 23rd. For general information http://www.garagebrewers.com/champion-of-the-pint/ To register beers or to sign up to judge or steward...

The Champion of the Pint Competition is the Garage Brewers Society's annual homebrew competition. It is a fully sanctioned AHA and BJCP event. This year it will be held on April 23, 2011. We are proud to be a part of the High Plains Brewer of the Year circuit. Entries are due April 15th...

I brewed an Ordinary Bitter this afternoon. I totally blew my sparge water calculations and in doing so, I ended up with too much water left in the mash tun. My gravity in the carboy is 1.028 and I was planning on 1.036. I'm thinking about boiling up some DME to raise my gravity some. I'm...

I tried Doggie-style Pale Ale for the first time last night and was really impressed. With the Flying Dog yeast as the current VSS from Wyeast, I thought I would see if I could clone it. Flying Dog was nice and made it easy for us. They posted some recipe guidelines on their brewery news...

My last four beers have been fermented with Pacman. Overall I have been very happy with the performance of the yeast. One thing that I have found in working with this yeast is that it really dries the beer out. It seems to leave very little malt character behind and the hops are really...

I'm going to do an experiment this Saturday. I am going to brew a Czech Pilsner, but ferment cool with Pacman. I don't have proper lagering equipment yet, but I am dying to brew something in this style. I have had great luck with the Pacman yeast so far. If nothing else, I should have a...

I finally got around to racking to secondary the brown ale that I brewed 3.5 weeks ago. I used the Pacman yeast with a 1/2 gallon starter. The OG was 1.066 and the FG was just below the 1.012 mark. That’s 80% attenuation! The beer also tasted great from the test tube. I’m stoked about this...

I've brewed 4 extract batches so far and wanted to take brewing to the next level. I decided to make the jump to all grain. My first AG recipe was Jamil's California Common. Other than a tiny brain fart of mashing at 153 instead of 154, the brew day went great. I am stoked and can't wait...

Is it possible to lager or cold condition a beer in the bottle? I want to brew a Kölsch. I can get the temp down to the upper 50's to low 60's with an ice batch for the primary fermentation. I've read that many people lager a Kölsch for several weeks in the secondary, but I don't have an extra...

I have a 12 ounce capped beer bottle of leftover Oregon Raspberry Puree that I used in a wheat beer. I am interested in making a mead. I would like to start out with a 5 or 6 gallon batch and flavor part of the batch with the leftover puree. How many gallons of mead would that leftover puree...

This is my second extract brew. I boiled this hefe this past Saturday. I was going to take a hydrometer reading tonight to see how the fermentation was going. While I was prying the lid off the bucket, I kept getting whiffs of a bad smell. I got the bucket open and was treated to this sight...

I wanted to start this thread off by saying thanks to everyone here. I've been lurking around for about 6 weeks now, soaking up as much information as possible. My first batch is bottled with about a week to go before they are carbonated. I was so emboldened as to attempt to brew two...