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My Dad has been growing this hops for about 8 years now and he doesn't even Brew. I have no idea what kind it is but I'm going to harvest it and brew with it!!

So the little guy is sick and I'm staying home with him today, wife tells me to put the pot roast in the slow cooker and lays out a recipe. I sez heck with the recipe! 1 beef pot roast 1 large onion 5....yah that's right 5 cloves of garlic! 2 bottles of Big Rock Dunkelweisen 1 1/2 cups...

My first batch went well, everything has been bottled for almost 4 weeks now, after the first week I tasted one bottle and it was alright. Now it has a very strong Plastic/band-aid flavour. I won't go into details about the recipe but I used water straight from the tap to boil (3 gallons) and...

My father has quite a bit of hops growing in his backyard, its been there for about 7 years now. He doesnt brew, just likes the smell and look of it. I have just recently started brewing and this summer when they are fully grown I will harvest all of it (probably 8 or 9 pounds in total)...

Let me start off by saying that was the most exciting day I've had in a long time, and I've been to Afghanistan! I started off by steeping my Grains(1lb of Caramunch and 2oz of Chocolate Malt) @ about 150-155 for 30 min it held temp really good. Then I brought it to a boil. My first...

So tomorrow is my first Brew, I posted some questions about it earlier. I'm basically doing an experiment for my first brew because I could only get certain ingredients. I am going with 6lbs of Gold Dry Light DME. I've read up a little about adding DME later in the boil. This is my plan. I...

So for Christmas I got all my brewing kit. Got the kettle, carboy, auto-siphon. I'm all ready to go so I go online to order from the best ingredient site in Canada so I'm told, and they are shut down for the holidays.....I tell myself I can wait. And I can't so I go out to my LHBS to see what...

I see this forum is mostly American, just wondering if there are any Canadian homebrewers, specifically Alberta. I havent started yet but I am saving up some money to buy a basic kit and get started, this site is pretty awesome, thanks for the wealth of info from all you experienced brewers out...