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This is the Hop Yard that my Buddy and I planted just this past weekend in Southwest Minnesota. We planted 4 different varieties. 10 Cascade, 10 Centennial, 10 Chinhook and 10 Willamette. I can't wait to see how these turn out. Hopefully these turn out well and then we will plant a few more...

I just brewed an 10 gallon all-grain batch of Alaskan Amber from the BYO magazine. The recipe calls for the use of Wyeast German Ale. However, I decided to use Wyeast American Ale in one of the carboy and Wyeast German Ale in the other so that I could see how they each impact the beer. I am 10...

Need some advice here, I am stepping up to all grain brewing shortly and I would like to do 10 gallon batches of both high and low gravity beers. I am thinking about purchasing the 15 gallon all grain commercial kit from Midwest Supplies. I would then use the hot liqour tank as my brew kettle...

If it is better to store your hops in the freezer how come when you purchase beer kits from a local home brew shop they just let the hops sit in the beer kit box at room temperature? Do they do something different with the packaging that allows them to store the hops at room temperature so the...

Just curious, but has anyone ever used pop/soda as way to add fermentable sugar to their beer? Is this even possible? Also...what are some of the weirder ingredients that you have used to increase your fermentable sugars?

The last couple of my beers that I have brewed are getting more bitter as time goes on. For example, we had let our beer bottle condition for three and then when we start drinking the beer and the beers seem to evolve into a more bitter beer each week. Why is this happening? The beers in...

I was just curious, but how much time would everyone would say that they spend on home brewing each month?

Just curious. What would happen if you used both top fermenting yeast and bottom fermenting yeast at the same time in the same batch? Has anyone ever tried this?

Hey, This was my first homebrew and I when I was transferring my beer from the primary fermentor to the secondary fermentor, I noticed that it didn’t even come close to filling the 5 gallon glass carboy (looks like only 4 gallons of beer). I was using a 5 gallon recipe kit from my local home...