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Tonight, I drank a bottle of my homebrew APA (excellent) and then the next beer i drank was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Now, i'm not saying MY APA is better than Sierra Nevada (it is:rockin: ) but the Sierra Nevada tasted pretty bland after drinking my beer. The question is why? I am guessing...

I am looking for a good spruce ale recipe (extract or partial mash) to brew? Also, what is the taste different in using pine needles instead of spruce?

I made a very good pale ale (best i have done yet) and bottled in liter bottles, 12 oz bottles and grolsch bottles. All of the liter bottles i have opened have had no carbonation but still had the same great taste. The seals appeared very tight, no spilling or movement and were in the same...

I have been searching for various information on the late extract addition and have not been satisfied with my answers (or lack thereof). Here is a 2.5 gallon batch i plan on brewing. 3.3# LME 0.25# crystal I have: 0.75 oz of Simcoe (14 AA) 0.5 oz of amarillo (9 AA) I was thinking...

How many of you really like scottish ale? For those of you with the deranged taste buds and reply, yes, did you like it from the first taste? There are many beers i don't really enjoy but have only found one style in which I can not even finish half a beer and thats the scottish...

So this is my first pale ale recipe, please let me know if you more intelligent people see any problems with it. 6.0# liquid light malt extract 1.5# dry light malt extract 0.5 crystal malt (caramel) US 0.25 Victory toasted US Briess 2 oz amarillo 8.9% (60 min) 1.5 oz simcoe 13.4% (20...

Here is the deal, i think i transfered to secondary a little early (8 days for a hefe) a little krausen reappeared for a couple days. No the krausen is gone and it has been 16 days since the brew date and little bubbles are rising. Is bubbles rising in secondary well after fermentation...

Everything i am reading suggests using priming sugar or dry malt extract. Is there a problem with using liquid malt extract? I know that dry malt extract is a little higher concentration (i think) so if that is accounted for can liquid be used? If so anyone have a general amount of liquid to...

I have brewed two different 5 gal extract kits that came with 6 grams of munton dry yeast. My LHBS sells safale dry yeast in a 11 gram packet. Is the entire 11gram packet used for a 5 gallon batch of pale ale? I have heard of yeast bite, does the quantity of yeast used increase the likelyhood...

I was wondering if anyone has used a cleaned Carlo Rossi wine jug to bottle homebrews? I figure they are much like a growler I only wonder if the cap would seal properly.

I'm sure you veterens are annoyed with questions like this but hopefully you will still help me out. My first brew is a 2.5 gallon nut brown ale extract kit being brewed in a 5-gal plastic bucket. I finished brewing at 11 pm. The next morning at 7 am the fermentation air lock was bubbling...