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hi all, after more than 40 successful all grain brews using my 3 tier system, i'm having some problems with my last couple of brews. my regular process has been to mash for 60 minutes, drain, sparge, drain. it has taken me usually 2 hours. but i just recently switched to BIAB, to...

hi, i'm looking for ideas on how to use my summer harvest for either mead or beer. i have 2 kilos of blueberries, 5 kilos of red currants, 2 kilos of crowberries, 1 kilo of black currants and 10 kilos of rhubarb. i wanted to pick your brain about it, since it takes a long time to create a...

hi all, i created my first mead on the 25th of september 2009 the recipe was, 23 liters, like this (i used a recipe from the web, don't know which one): 2.3 kg honey, just standard supermarket honey. no variety here in iceland 5 oranges in slices 4 cinnamon sticks 2 ml all spice 2...

hi all, i just brewed 5 gals of JZ bohemian pilsner a week ago. i was in a hurry going on a trip with the familiy and forgot to create the starter 2 days in advance as i had planned and only used one activator pack of bobemian lager in a one liter starter on the stirplate for 12 hours...

hi, me and some fellow brewers are planning a lambic group brew. one question that came up, is can we create a single starter with a lambic blend and step it up gradually so we can use it for 4 carboys. it perhaps sounds silly, but here in iceland it is very hard to get yeast, and...

hi all, after having been brewing since august last year, i decided to step up to a keggerator. having brewed 30 batches, i was getting tired of bottling everyting and since my poker club has gotten hooked on the beer, it seemed like a good idea. i convinced swmbo that it would be very...

i've beer reading john palmer's "how to brew" and randy moshers "radical brewing" about how to roast my own grain. one question that i haven't found an answer to is, when making crystal malt, can i just roast carapils (which is light crystal) or do i have to soak pale ale for 24 hours and...

hi all, next i want to create a brown ale. i saw this recipe from jamil http://beerdujour.com/Recipes/Jamil/American_Brown_Ale_2.html and i want to convert it to weyermann malt, since that is the only malt i have here in iceland. here is the original recipe Batch Size (Gal)...