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I wasn't really a fan of saison beer until I tasted the Brasserie Charlevoix Dominus Vobiscum Saison. What I really liked in this beer is it's a refreshing beer with fruit aroma and flavor and without any spice. So this weekend, I read the book Farmhouses Ales (...) by Phil Markowski...

I forgot to buy a tubing for transfering the sanitizer from my new conical fermentor to a storage carboy. I had to stay beside the carboy to push it toward the fermentor so the stream stay centred with the funel. That was funny but I bougth some tubing for tranfering the beer.

Should I use sulfite to stabilize my cider / mead? Do you use sulfite? I think that sulfite could be use when backsweeting. I haven't found any warning against sulfiting beside if someone is allergic. I found those article about sulfite...

During the month of october, I started a cider. When racking to secondary for aging, I tasted my cider and it tasted like apple (good!) but watery (bad). I used low acidity freshly pressed apple juice. The juice wasn't for cider making but drinking. I think it was made with Mcintosh...

Hello, somebody gave me enough honey (about 7kg) to make mead. I already made prickly pear mead (good), ginger mead (best) and blueberry mead (still aging). Since it's winter where I live, I don't have acces to fresh local fruit available. Berry and such are watery tasting...

Hello, so I was at my local homebrew store for buying grains for a 2.0 Black IPA (BYO recipe) and they didn't had dried rice extract. They sold me liquid rice extract. After brewing, I had some extract left. They told me that it is used by gluten-free brewer. So that leave me wondering...

Hello, So I want to make a witbier with a bit more flavor. I recently tasted a beer called "Coup de grisou" brewed by Brasseur RJ in Montreal, Canada. From what I tasted it's like a good Witbier (Belgian yeast + corriander + orange/citrus + wheat) with a hint of buckwheat taste. The...

Does anyone ever tried using maple sugar instead of maple syrup for making maple flavored beer? My maple products supplier suggested me to use maple sugar because it was least costly than syrup. 1 uk gallon of syrup is around 45$ and 1 kg of sugar is around 15-20$. The sugar is syrup...

I want to cold condition a beer before kegging it. I don't have any spare room in my refrigerator for my carboy. So I'm thinking about putting my carboy outside. The temperature is around -6°C to -2°C [20F to 30F] by night. Will it be too cold so the beer will freeze? If the beer freeze...