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After reading through my local water reports I've come to the realization that my tap water is terrible and unpredictable, bottled water available here is relatively alkaline, and distilled water is very expensive (about $3-4 for 4 liters), considering I'd need about 5 gallons or so to dilute...

Hi All- I posted this in All Grain Brewing earlier, but it's probably better here. My original post: Afr0byte responded: As did Martin Brungard: Thanks! I'll try calling the water company tomorrow and see if I can get a real answer about sodium - I couldn't find it in the...

I've had an issue with head retention lately, and I wonder if my water profile has something to do with it. I've started cleaning my glassware with just hot water and then drying by hand, in order to eliminate the detergent effect on head retention - I haven't noticed anything different from...

Since I bottle my brew, I often pick up discarded bottles when I'm out on a run or walking the dog. So around 9 this morning, I passed an attractive girl with a dog of her own, and while she was happy to let them sniff, she definitely kept her distance from me. After we parted, I...

Just bottled my first AG brew, following Jamil's Dry Stout (Cervesa de Malto Seca) recipe: 6.25# Pale Ale Crisp (69.4%) 1.75# Flaked Barley (19.4%) 1# Black Barley (11.1%) 1.8 oz East Kent Goldings (5.8%AAU), 60 min US-05 Est OG: 1.032 Est SG: 1.042 Est FG: 1.008 Actual OG: 1.030...

I brewed a Scottish Export 8 days ago, and pitched my yeast (S-04) at about 65F. Over the previous 7 days, the temps stayed in the 62-64 area, which is what I was looking for for this yeast strain and for this particular beer. 'Active' fermentation was great, with high krausen and dissipation...

Brewed my first full boil last night, Midwest's Scottish Export 80. My OG came out a bit high, at 1.058, instead of the 1.048-1.054 listed on the instruction sheet. This morning, when I plugged all of the details into QBrew, I ended up with a recipe OG of 1.056, which is within 'operator...

Folks- Moving this post from Extract Brewing (where I got a solid answer) to here, since I have some confusion with dry yeast strains. brettwasbtd replied: Scottish ales usually use really clean yeasts. In my experience, all three of the aforementioned dry yeasts are fairly clean (Haven't...

Folks- I'll be brewing the Midwest Scottish Export 80 Shilling extract kit this weekend as a full-volume boil (and using my newly-acquired wort chiller). Ingredients are: 6 lbs. Gold liquid malt extract 1 lb. Amber DME 4 oz. Biscuit 8 oz. Caramel 40L 4 oz. Chocolate 2 oz. Special B 1 oz. Peat...

Hi Folks- My wife bought me a Mr. Beer premium kit for Christmas, and I brewed my first batch of Witty Monk using the two cans of HME and bottle priming with regular table sugar. The wort fermented in the 'keg' for 2 weeks, then bottle fermented for 2 weeks, and is now conditioning in my...

Hi folks- I put on my wish list this year a 'brewing kit' and my lovely wife picked me up a Mr. Beer. With my first batch fermenting, I'm already looking wider and deeper. I'm a bit of a luddite - bamboo fly rods, old British motorcycles - and I think I'd like to get to AG brewing at some...