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Hey guys, I have a friend moving to Portland soon and he loves brewing and is quite knowledgeable about fermenting things. The thing is, he can`t brew by himself anymore due to the affects of ALS. If you saw the ice-bucket videos you may have learned about what that does to you, and will...

I am a homebrewer who is trying out some buckboard bacon (shoulder roast instead of belly) and dont have a smoker at home. I work at a BBQ and Craft Beer restaurant so I could have the pitmaster take care of it for me but I wan't to do this myself. I could use my clay Pizza oven but that would...

I never learned any database software before and am not really sure what I am doing. So far I have a list of all the breweries in Japan in open office :base", and columns for various things like date sampled, date brewed, reviewer name, IBU, blahblahblah. I put it together in open office calc...

Hi guys, I use bleach/vinegar solution for sanitizing as per Charlie Tally's (starsan inventor) no-rinse recipe. I do this because it is the cheapest and most accessible no rinse sanitizer available to me in Japan. I had a bit of a language barrier on my bleach purchases though, I can read...

I Bought a second hand STC-1000 unit a few months back and it did not come with a probe. I could not locate a probe that I could buy and have shipped to my location so with some searching on here and other sites I found the specs for the probe and decided to try building my own. I confirmed...

I have 10 kg of the "English Ale Malt" bought from Asahi malts; its supposedly like a Marris Otter and I want to use it as one. Here is a recipe I just made in Beersmith with ingredients I have on hand. Can someone take a look and give me some feedback? I am doing a BIAB, and my main goal is...

Once mixed and activated with vinegar, how long will a bleach+water+vinegar solution last? Will it degrade over a few hours, a day, a week, a month? Assuming I mix this up using tap-water for big jobs, how long will it last? What about DI water as is recommended for starsan longevity...

I want to build an exchange network of hops growers in Japan. Living plants are difficult and expensive to import. I want to learn what varieties are already growing in Japan. I have recently been given 2 full plants in 50 liter pots. I can trade some rhizomes with other hops gardeners in...

Hi all, this is my first post. I live in Kanagawa Japan, south of Yokohama. Looking to share experiences brewing with others in the area, trade brews, etc. I'm still relatively new at all-grain brewing and want to improve my skills, and have been trying to get my foot in the doors of local...