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Ive bottled 2 batches of beer that were over-carbonated. What is the correct amount cane sugar to use per 5 gallons?

I just ordered the ingredients for BYOs Big Beers issue the St. Carolus Honey Imperial Porter. Im looking to age this beer for a couple years. This is my first beer over 1.090 and I'm excited. I can't wait for the adventure and rewards of this monster. I was thinking of adding some oak or fruit...

I have a recipe that was in one of the newer BYO magazines part of the Welsh Beers segment. I was wondering if it would be any good because I'm looking for a nice big beer to brew and age. The recipe is: 13lbs 2-row 7lbs Amber 2.5 oz Nugget (90mins) 1.6 Fuggles (1min) OG: 1.097 FG: 1.019 ABV...

Y 14 yr old son told me he wants to be a brewer. Hes helped me everytime and knows the same if not more than me about brewing. He's always reading something about brewing and formulating stuff. Sometimes I want to just give him the ingredients and let him do the brewing so I don't have to which...

So I was just fooling around with recipes and I came up with this and I was wondering if it would make a good beer and your thoughts on different ingredients. Any criticism is welcome. Grain Bill 10lbs 2 row 2lbs Munich .5lbs Crystal 60 Hops 1 oz Cluster (60min.) 1oz Willamette (0min.) Yeast...

Has anyone made the new limited edition 1910 Export ale. It looks really good and sounds yummy ;) Just wondering if anyone has tried it yet.

So this spring I'm going to plant some hops. And I was wondering what hops I should grow. I was thinking maybe 4-5 varieties at most. Centennial and cascade I know I'm gonna plant but I don't know what others I should plant.

I just bought a bomber of this at Giant Eagle. Can't wait to try it. Made a clone of it with Columbus Cent. And Chinook with Munich:) Can't wait to try both:D

2.5 gals. Grain Bill 7 pounds 2 row .5 pounds caramel 40 .5 pounds Munich Hops .75oz Columbus 60min .5oz Centennial 30min .5oz Chinook 20min .5oz Centennial 10min .5oz Chinook 5min .5oz Columbus 5min .5oz Centennial 1min Dry hop with 1.5 oz Centennial and .75oz of Columbus. OG: 1.082 IBUS...

Anyone know any good stores in the Cleveland area that sell craft beers? I know Great Lakes Brewery is around but i was looking to try the real good stuff. Russian River, Sierra Nevada, and Dogfish, beers like that:)

So I'm at this restaurant and this young girl at the table next to me is drinking Guiness with a straw. For some reason it's pissing me off! Am I just being a jerk or is tht wrong?

I brewed BM's Centennial Blonde Tuesday night and let it Ferment in my basement and today I went to see it and saw it was fermenting at 76 degrees!!!! I put a fan on it to try to cool it down. Is it ruined. That's 4 degrees over the temp range wyeast suggests. I was looking for a crisp beer and...

I'm making a sweet mead and it is done fermenting. So I was wondering if there's any bonus to letting it sit in the secondary or just in the bottles to age?

Hello I just got all my ingredients for Bier Munchers Centennial Blonde and got an extra .25lbs of Cara pils .5 of Crystal 10 and .5 of Vienna. This shouldn't effect the flavor to much right?

I recently was watching Bizarre Foods (A cool show) And he was in St. Petersburg Russia and was trying a non-alcoholic drink by Russian Standards:) called Kvass and is about 1-2% ABV... So I decided tomorrow after looking and digging up recipes to go and try to make some. I was wondering if...

So I'm finally going to save up for a Keezer. Im trying to get a cheap freezer off of craigslist to fit 4 kegs. If I can get more great. Bottled two batches tired of it and now I wanna keg. It will be great now I can lager too.. Wish me luck:D

Has anyone ever thought of sticking a some hop leafs in the bottles before bottling? Would this work? Isn't it essentially the same as dhing in the keg?

Ok I just brain stormed a simple hoppy brew and was looking for some suggestions. Maybe what it might taste like. 12lbs Munich 10l 1oz Chinook 60min 1oz Amarillo 20min 1oz of Amarillo and centennial at 5 min Yeast??? Simple recipe I was thinking to get some hoppiness with a strong malt backbone.

So I had a memorial cookout today and went through 11 bottle of my first AG Irish Red. And it was only me and 2 other dudes. Man I need to invite more people :D