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Ohio Brew Week is coming up and The Athens Homebrew Club is hosting the homebrew competition. You can enter now through 7/1 with the shipping/drop off window closing 7/7. We could also use some judges and stewards to help out. They can drop off their beers the day of 7/16, get fed, and...

DIPA 5.5 gal batch Mash @150 14# Pale Ale Malt 1# Munich 1# Carapils 8oz Carastan 1# Dextrose 1oz Columbus @90 1oz each Citra, Simcoe, Centennial, Chinook @15, flameout, and dry hop I'm going for strong, dry, and a mix of fruity with dank pine. Hopville has IBUS ~111 OG ~1.085...

Just saw this: http://www.thekitchn.com/toast-the-holidays-make-a-beer-advent-calendar-beer-sessions-181105 Got me thinking that maybe we could do a trade somehow in this fashion though we're a bit late now, maybe next year have a bunch of us brew a recipe or few for it.

So I picked up a 5 gallon bourbon barrel yesterday from FEW Spirits in Evanston and filled it up today, but didn't make it all the way. I tried making a 6 gallon batch, but with a long boil I underestimated my evaporation rate and ended up with much less wort. I thought I had at least five...

Since the end of the summer when I moved into my new apartment I have had an infection epidemic that started in one bucket of mine that was fermenting a two hearted clone and has somehow now spread to all 5 buckets that I have. These are all 6.5 gallon buckets, one Ale Pail, three morebeer...

All Grain - 5 gallon OG - 1.063 FG - 1.018 ~6% ABV Mash at 156 6# Smoked Malt (they had Briess at the LHBS) 4# Munich 1# Chocolate 1# Special B 4oz Lactose 4oz Malto-dextrine 1oz Brewer's Gold at 60 minutes US-05 After fermentation was complete I soaked ~6 strips of baked bacon dabbed with...

I am a total kegging n00b. This is my second post today on it. So I put everything together and when I open up the valve on the CO2 tank I hear a ton of hissing by the regulator and by the first hose connection. I figure I just need to clamp the hose down more with a set of pliers, but I'm...

So I'm having trouble getting my liquid disconnect off after accidentally forcing it on the post probably too hard (I'm a kegging n00b). The collar won't come up to release it and it's not budging at all. How to I get this freaking thing off? Hopefully without entirely ruining it since I don't...

We found these cans in the pantry of the apartment we just moved into and I'm wondering if I should brew them. They expired 10 years ago, yeah back in 2002. I wouldn't have even been allowed to consume these back then. I was thinking why not? Maybe botulism, but I think I would notice that.

So I brewed up a triple a month and a half ago with Rochefort yeast and it has been sitting in primary since. It burped up some yeast on the first night but I closed it back up and it seemed as though everything was doing fine. I just opened it up for the first time and it appears to have a...

Sad day for this dude: I'm glad I've never had a bottle bomb or gusher before.

So a few weeks ago I brewed up a monster RIS with an OG north of 1.15, at least I think I did. The problem is that my hydrometer has been acting up lately and I figured this out when a 1.1 IIPA had finished below 1. I think I've been getting much higher efficiency when I thought I wasn't, but I...

So I've been working on this mash braid trying to get out the inner hose for a while now and it just doesn't want to come out. What have people used to poke it at the base to make it easier to pull out? I've been using a thumb tack and small screw driver, I wish I could find an exacto knife as I...

Ok so maybe it has only be 8 hours at 63 degrees after being well aerated, but I'm really impatient! It's been 8 months since the last brew so I want to see a krausen ASAP!

While brewing a witte last year with some whole hops (tett) I noticed a fair amount of seeds, normally I use pellets so I'm not sure if this is normal. My main question is if the seeds are viable after processing and if anyone has tried growing from them. I realize you could get male and female...

So I'm desperate to brew and have no equipment besides a basic kitchen here in Argentina. So I'm BIABing with a bandanna, no thermometer, unidentified malt and hops, and wild fermenting. We'll see how this goes...

So you know how you've always wanted to up your game to a 1.5 bbl system but didn't have the money? Well now might be your chance as I've found some super cheap 55 gallon steel drums on ebay...

I've been recently inspired by a thread I can't find now but will link to later about "$8 Bush Beer". A simple way to make something maybe resembling beer out of ingredients found at a grocery store; malted milk, wheat bran, sugar or honey, some celestial relaxation tea that has hops (forget the...

It's hard to find. If you find yourself near Santiago de Chile try some Szot and Kross, it's good but fairly generic with no deviation from style guidelines and very little aroma. I toured Szot and I appreciate what their doing trying to bring good beer to market, their next barleywine (still...

So I've become intrigued by the teamaker hops recently and have been playing with the idea of an English IPA done with these hops. They're not really meant for brewing but it could be an interesting experiment. So the recipe goes like this: Grain: 10lbs Maris Otter 1lb Crystal 1lb Carapils Hops...