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Anyone here from the Milwaukee area that visited one of these places: Trocadero Cafe Centraal Cafe Hollander Cafe Benelux I've had a beer called High-Speed Wit from 2 of these places and I think they are all owned by the same group. Anyway, this beer is really good and I'd like to...

What do you think about this partial mash recipe? 4lbs Pale Malt 2 Row 1lbs CaraPils 0.75lbs Corn Sugar 1lbs Light DME 0.6oz Hallertauer 60min 1.25oz Hallertauer 5min US-05 Yeast Primary for 3 weeks and keg it. 1.040 and 9 IBU's Do you think my MGD drinking father will like this?

I'm going to try my first PM soon and I understand about holding the mash temp around 153F or so to convert the starches to sugar, but then you are supposed to use 170F water to sparge (am I getting these terms correct???). If you go above 175F you can release tannins. So why would you...

The kits from NB come with a course grain bag. I use these for steeping the grains and my wort usually ends up with a fair amount of small grain pieces that come through the bag. The grain also has a fair amount of 'dust' from the milling and this also ends up in the wort. I have a few...

So on 9/18/2011 I brewed the Phat Tyre "clone" from Northern Brewer. Followed directions exactly except for only doing a primary for 4 weeks and then into a keg. After 5 weeks or so carbed in the fridge, I keep getting this sour taste from this beer. It smells good and tastes good but the...

Please tell me what I am doing wrong. I took a simple extract recipe for an American Wheat with 6lbs of wheat LME and used Beersmith 2 to convert it to a partial mash. All it did was drop the LME amount by 0.2 and add 0.2oz of grain. Am I missing a step?

I'm on my second keg of Jamil's Evil Twin extract kit from NB and I absolutely love this beer. With that in mind...can anyone recommend another extract recipe I would probably love? Also, what style would you say this falls under? American Brown Ale?

My Christmas spiced ale has been fermenting for 4 days now. When I sniff the air lock, I don't really smell anything. Should it smell like spices? I added these at 2min. left in boil: 1 tsp of ground cinnamon 1 tsp of ground ginger 1oz pkg of bitter orange peel It smelled really good...

So I left my beer in the primary for 4 weeks and then kegged it. I Left it out of the fridge for another week during which I added 30psi of c02 every couple days to get a head start on my carbonation. I know if I put it in the fridge the yeast will go dorment, but did my c02 pressure make...

I used to drink Miller High Life and Miller Genuine Draft. I even went with a 1/2 barrel setup on tap. Me and my friends were living it up. (or so we thought) Yea, I tried home brewing 15 years ago but always went back to the mass produced beers. For the past 2 years I've been brewing...

So I have more kegs than CO2 lines right now. I have 2 lines, 3 kegs with beer, and 1 keg with soda. One beer is only 4 days in the keg so I leave a CO2 line on it all the time. The other 2 beers are fully carb'd so I switch the line back and forth between them each day. The 4th keg has...

OK, So I brewed 3 batches during the past several weekends. Two of them got kegged this past weekend. I only have 2 kegs right now. The 3rd batch should be ready this weekend (3rd week in primary). The problems is: I don't want to bottle this batch (spoiled by kegs) and I don't want to rush...

So I'm back into brewing again and I'm setting up my basement with a fridge, etc. and I pulled out the old boxes of bar glasses, shot glasses, etc. that I had from my old house. Many of these glasses were from my wife's grandfather. One set of glasses is really cool and I'd like to find out...

I have 3 CO2 tanks. How many lbs are these tanks: Dimensions NOT including the shut off valves. 26.5" x 7" 23" x 7.5" 13.5" x 5.25" I'm guessing 20lb, 20lb, and 5lb. I'm going to order 2 corny kegs for now. If I'm going to keep 2 kegs on tap, which tank or tanks should I get filled? What if I...

Brewed a few batches 10 years ago, brewed one last year, and recently brewed the following Norther Brewer kits: -Dry Irish Stout (6lbs Gold LME, 1lbs roasted barley, 2oz cluster, Safale S-04, 1.040 OG) -Cream Ale (6lbs Pilsen LME, .75lbs honey malt, .25lbs Dingemans Biscuit, Safale US-05, 1.038...