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Hello fellow brewers! I have been using the Bayou Classic 800-416 as my boil kettle for a few batches now. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082X3D06/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I love what it does, but I know there's more I could do with it. I am considering buying another kettle...

So I am playing with a recipe for a Rye Wine that I want to get going with soon. The problem is, I feel that I need to do a lot of specialty grains to get the complexity that I am looking for. I have always done Extract + Specialty brews and am very comfortable with this method. However, with...

I am looking to create a Rye Wine inspired by Perrin's Brewery back in Michigan. I am not going to clone anything, I just know the flavors that I want included, and I know that I want it to be strong. Target Flavors: Dark-fruit (fig, raisin, plum), toffee or caramel, slight chocolate, booze...

I was lucky enough, on a trip to Moab last summer, to take home several slats from their used and disassembled wine barrels - I have no idea what type of wine was in them, other than a red. My question is this. What should I do with them? Should I chop them and throw them in to a bucket to...

I have been sitting on some cut and sifted herbs for many months now, and I just cannot wait any longer to make my Gruit. On a whim, I dropped by my FLBS and slapped together a solid base recipe to add my herbs to. This isn't a traditional gruit base recipe but I am more interested in the...

So I just received my final package in the mail: 2 ounces of Wormwood, cut and sifted. I now have Sweet Gale, Yarrow, Wormwood, and Marsh Rosemary. I also have Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers in my possession. My intent it to brew a mild ale with a bit of sweetness and use the wild herbs to...

I was really ambitious on Sunday and wanted to get in a brew session with an Extract +Specialty recipe. Unfortunately, by the time I got everything else done, a huge cold front came through with vicious winds and I was unable to brew. The problem is, I already activated my slap-pack of yeast...

So I have NO kegging, corny, keezer equipment whatsoever at this stage of my brewing endeavor - I am a bottle only operation. That being said, the 4th is quickly coming and I have a batch of beer that is ready to be bottled, but that will mean none of my beer is carbed in time for the holiday...

I am considering doing an English Dark Mild session beer with the WLP500 Trappist Ale yeast and a few questions have begun floating through my head. 1) Is this a good idea? I am really interested in the " distinctive fruitiness and plum characteristics" of the strain. I think it could be a...

Okay, so I love Gruit, but I have not seen very many recipes online for it, and I have a very limited scope of Gruit to base off of. Mt. Pleasant Sacred Gruit is one that I know and love and here is what the website says about it" Sacred Gruit Ale Pale Ale brewed with Yarrow, Myrtle and...

My last two batches of beer have turned out fine except for a nonexistent head retention. This third batch is a Rogue Hazelnut Brown extract + specialty recipe, and I really want a decent, lasting head on it. My LBS said I could experiment with adding maltodextrin to my priming sugar when...

So, I am still not a fan of a lot of IPAs but my brother-in-law is. I want to brew him an IPA but I am not sure where to start. Do you have any good clone recipes or tried-and-trues that I should look into? Also, I did consider using this as a time where I could possibly brew smaller...

I brewed an orange-blossom honey heffe last weekend and set up a blow-off tube into 1/5 gallon of water+starsan mix. The past couple of days, instead of bubbles or burps in the blow-off container, I am getting intermittent, loud gurgles coming through. I am not worried, I am just extremely...

So to day was the day to brew my second batch of beer. I really learned a lot from my first batch (as far as processes go) and I felt much more comfortable with every step.....I even started with 6 gallons of water because my last batch lost about a gallon via evaporation. UNTIL A storm kicked...

So, I was going to brew this morning but I did not have a starter made yet....so I decided to postpone the brewing and create a starter. I have been reading a lot lately on starters and I feel that it is probably a good idea to use one with the WhiteLabs vials. So I took a sauce pot and boiled...

Would affixing vinyl tubing to one of those fireplace stoker thingies (billow?) work well as an aerator ? Just kind of popped into my head.....

First off, I am not 100% sure that this is the correct forum for this post, but I thought it fit. Being a noob to the brewing community and craft, I would like to know what goes in to the thought process of creating a new recipe. I understand that a lot of it is experimentation (or will be on...

Is it possible to make a Bock-style beer without the Lagering process. I do not have means to create a lagering chamber or convert a freezer but I wanted to brew a darker beer along the lines of a bock. Any thoughts, suggestions, etc.?

So I brewed my first batch of beer today and, thanks to these forums and all of the wonderful advice, I had a lot of confidence that I was starting out a little 'ahead of the curve'....and I am sure that sounds cocky. Two things that I really thought were imperative to my first brew were an...

So I just finished up my first ever batch of homebrew this morning! Of course now is when I begin second guessing myself. I brewed a clone of Magic Hat #9 and my end product was much darker than what I remember drinking from their bottles. Is this due to the beer not being finished yet...