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I planted two rhizomes in an organic community garden this spring. Now that they're in the ground, I'm wondering what I should do to protect them from pests. Being organic - normal pesticides are a no-no. Other members of the community garden are talking about using nematodes or...

I've heard people talk about saving their yeast cake from sour beers and pitching another batch on top of it. Just wondering if that's the primary or secondary cake? I have a batch of Flanders Red (my first sour) in primary right now. I pitched Roesalare and a pack of US-05 at the same...

I want to grow my own hops! Sadly, I live in a rented house with a tiny yard, and my landlord says I can't plant anything in the ground. On the other hand... my parents have 40+ acres of land in upstate South Carolina which they are doing absolutely nothing with. My grandfather used to raise...

I recently read an article about using Citra hops in a wheat beer. Also saw something about brewing with rose hips. AND I've been thinking about trying (again) to brew with yeast harvested from Hoegaarden bottles. Rather than try these individually... I figured I would lump them all into one...

I did a search for hefe yeast and didn't find anything specific enough to answer my question. Figured a poll would be my best bet. I'm looking to brew a traditional hefeweizen with all the phenols, banana, clove, bubblegum and/or vanilla flavors you would expect. I've read here, and heard...

I recently picked up a Brewer's Best Belgian Tripel recipe kit. The kit came with over 9lbs of extract (mix of LME and DME), plus some candy sugar and maltodextrin... but only 1/4 lb of "specialty grains" (4oz of Belgian Aromatic). I'm still pretty new to this brewing stuff, but I wanted to...

Just bottled my Chocolate Covered BEAVR Nutz porter yesterday. I was checking the bottles for any bombs today and realized that I made two mistakes while priming/bottling. First, I added the dry priming sugar directly to the bottling bucket. I have no idea why I did this (or why it didn't...

I'm still really new to home brewing. Just started in January. I did 3 batches of MrBeer. Then picked up a starter kit from GroupOn in early March. I've done 2 batches with it so far. I can already tell that I hate bottling though. I was hoping to build a keezer before I did my next batch...

I recently picked up one of those $64 kits from Groupon/Midwest. I've done a few batches of Mr.Beer, but this was my first 5gallon batch and my first time using "specialty grains" I did the Midwest Autumn Amber recipe. OG reading was 1.044 (within the suggested range for their recipe). The...

I'm as "noob" as they come. My first batch (of Mr Beer) is only 4 days in. But I just ordered some more ingredients and hope to start a second batch this weekend. Just wondering what people do to control the temp during fermentation. I live in a drafty old house... and even with the...

My name is Dave. I'm 31 and I live in southwest Georgia. I started reading up on home brewing about 6 months ago - just doing my research. I've also been watching a lot of videos on youtube (Craigtube). Still haven't brewed anything just yet. My girlfriend bought me a "Mr Beer" kit for...