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Hey all. I've been on a several year brewing hiatus, and it must end. For a long time I've dreamt of a CDA that would allow me to drink the dank, piney forests here in the PNW. I knew Simcoe would have to be prominent. I want to keep the fruitiness down, focusing on dank, pine, and cedar. It's...

I've got an unusual weekend off, and with the nice weather here in Seattle of late, I want to brew! However, my house has been hitting ~80F, which puts a damper on things. I've looked and looked for ideas, and all I find are shouts of Saisons, Wits, and other estery Belgians. Now, I...

I just acquired ~70 used flip tops. Most are in pretty good shape. At least a third are old ,5l German bottles. The wire baskets for some have varying degrees of patina and rust. I assume they're fine since they'll be thoroughly sanitized and the beer doesn't touch the wire. However I figure...

Brewed up a Porter yesterday, OG was 1.074. Well higher than I'd planned, so I'd only purchased one tube of White Labs WLP013 London Ale. I was considering purchasing another and re-pitching due to the high OG. Currently the porter is fermenting VERY vigorously, just short of a blow off...

I brewed up some of the Mirror Pond mini-mash clone kit from Austin Homebrew, but dry hopped with an ounce of Cascade in an attempt to bump up the citrusy hop flavor to get close to the taste of the Fresh hop version. Granted, my volume into secondary was low, about 4-4.5 gallons so that is a...

I've read the forums for a long time but have never had a real reason to post before. Now I do! A buddy and I are going to be brewing together for the first time, as opposed to doing so solo, and are of different skill levels. He's got more hands on experience but I've got more book...