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I've searched all around, and I can't seem to get an answer (or even a general idea) of what kind of gravity contribution I can expect from adding frozen blueberries to a beer. I have had an idea for a while about making a Belgian Wit with a hint of blueberry and adding Brett to the...

So I have an Oud Bruin that got a little too sour. I origionally fermenteded it with ale yeast and then added White Labs sour mix to the secondary. After 6 months and very little evident sourness, I started adding dregs of a bunch of different sour beers to the fermenter and a couple months...

I was reading the latest issue of ESPN the magazine, and a few pages in they show a picture of one of the keg rooms that feed the 566 taps at all the concession stands in Madison Square Garden. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen - if you think you have a pretty sweet draft...

I just got a nice big maple mash paddle for Christmas, it seems to be a really nice quality maple, no cracks or knots at all. And it is sanded smooth as glass, the only thing is that the holes in the blade are very rough inside - not sanded at all. Seems strange to sand the thing down so...

For those who don't know what I'm talking about: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00467QN54/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I don't plan on using them for preserving opened beers (I can handle drinking a whole beer at a time:D). I am just looking for something reusable to cover my sanitized bottles...

I kegged my first batch yesterday (first kegged batch I should say, not my first batch brewed) and have some questions. First off, before anyone scolds me for not doing my due dilligence - I have done searches, too many to count. I have scrolled through about 1,000 pages of other threads and I...

I'm talking VERY low gravity, even lower than a standard pale ale. Something in the neighborhood of 3.5-4% ABV. Back story: As I was drinking a Short's "humalupalicious" yesterday, I gave my wife a taste. She complained about how she loves the hop aroma and flavor of IPAs, but she can't...

I was reading another thread today about a small brewery here in Michigan, and the owner was talking about how they only sell on-site because Michigan has the RIDICULOUS 3 tier distribution requirement. What is the purpose of not allowing small breweries to self distribute? I have heard that it...

So I had a couple of vials of White Labs American Farmhouse blend that I never got around to using after buying them over the summer. Yesterday (October 14th)I was looking in my fridge and noticed that one of the vials expired Oct 2nd, and the other expires today (oct 15). So I brewed up a 3...

Okay, I know there are countless threads about Berliner Weisses that aren't sour enough. I have read through all of them, and the standard answer is to give it more time. But my Berliner has been in secondary for 6 months and is not getting any more sour. The sample I pulled last night tasted...

Hey all, Just dropped off my 5 entries for the Michigan beer cup(just in time for the deadline). My entries are: ESB (landlord clone), Saison, hoppy American wheat, smoked apple ale, and a sour-mash 1908 Kentucky common. Who else out there entered beers? I heard there were over 700 entries last...

Hey all - I have a beer I am entering in the upcoming Michigan Beer Cup competition and I'm not sure what category to enter it in. It is a brown ale I made with smoked malt and apple cider, and fermented with Belgian Wit yeast. Neither the smokiness or the apple flavor dominates, it is pretty...

I'm about to do my first sour mash beer, a Kentucky common. It is only going to be a 3 gallon batch, so my total grain bill is 5 pounds. I plan on mashing/sparging 1.5 pounds of my base malt and souring for a couple days, then mashing the remaining 3.5 pounds of grains and combining the two...

Ok - I know there are a lot of threads on both yeast washing and dreg culturing, but I haven't found anything that answers this question(plus a lot of those threads are so long I'd have to quit my job to actually have time to read through all of them). I have a starter that I made from the dregs...

Hello all, My LHBS only sells White Labs yeast, and since I am hesitant to have liquid yeast shipped I have used WL exclusively. But today or tomorrow, I am going to be in Grand Rapids, and plan on visiting a new brew supply shop there that sells Wyeast. I was wondering if there are any...

So the brewing gods may have smiled on me today. I have been wanting to get a kegging setup for a while, but didn't think I could afford everything right now. Then today I finally got around to cleaning out the storage above my garage(after living here for 8 years!)and what do I find? A big CO2...

I was browsing some pictures of some people's brewing rigs, and I'm sure a lot of these setups would startle a neighbor who doesn't know anything about brewing. I started thinking that I bet there are a lot of funny stories out there about nosy neighbors calling authorities and police storming...

Is it possible to force carbonate a beer in a 2L bottle with the carbonator cap using just the small CO2 charges? I have no kegging setup and was interested in using the carbonator cap to carbonate a bit of beer at bottling time so I can do some sampling before my bottles are ready. I have read...

So the brewery with the word pumpkin in its name finally makes a pumpkin beer(actually it's been out for a while but I haven't been able to get any until now). And, appropriately enough, it is the best pumpkin beer I have ever tasted. A lot of pumpkin beers are focused too much on the spices...

I tried to log in to hopville.com yesterday to formulate a new recipe, but can't seem to get on for some reason. Same thing today. Every time I go there, it just says "there has been an error" and will go no further. Anyone else having these issues? If I do a google search and click on the link...