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Too many big beers have been playing havoc with my waistline so I decided to try to drop a few pounds and as most of you know a couple bombers of 6-8% beers has as many calories as a lot of meals. So one of my first cuts was beer and I found the Miller Lite Clone recipe on this site and gave it...

I believe today was my first time being truly embarrased purchasing beer/wine/liquor. When I was young I drank everything from Falls City to Mad Dog 20/20 but it was OK then because I was young, poor, and getting drunk and puking was actually kind of a status builder. As I have aged I tend to...

I am getting pretty good with a basic understanding of brewing and I am really trying to understand a few things that I can't wrap my head around. My understanding is higher temperature + shorter time = higher final gravity and lower temperature + longer time = lower final gravity. Is this...

Like the title says what style of beer do you make that most consitently turns out really good. Also is there a style that is the opposite that seems to never quite come out as good as you think/hope it should.

Well actually I am going to brag on my beer. My first batch, an extract brown ale, was OK at best. My second batch, a dry irish stout, was a good batch that I would gladly and proudly share with people and brew again. BUT my third batch reminded me of the scene in the movie Beerfest when...

I need to cut a few calories and while looking at recipes I came across Miller Lite Clone in the light hybrid recipe section. It uses Amylase to get the FG down to 1.00 and achieve the lite beer affect. I occasionally buy Michelob Ultra Amber for when I want to cut calories and pretend I am...

I was sitting in the living room and my wife said she found something in one of my tree catalogs that she wanted to get. When I asked her what, she told me she couldn't remember what it was called and she went to get a catalog and came back to it opened to none other than hops. She said she...

First time dry hopping and a question about keeping as much as possible out of final product. I am using an ounce of Centenial and half ounce Chinook but only have pellet hops because it seems only shops that specialize in hops have leaf hops. I have a small hop bag and my big grain bag...

I just can't wrap my head around how you can pitch too much yeast. Now I can understand if it is washed and too much trub or thrown on trub it could cause off flavors but it seems like pitching a pound should thoretically be OK. I understand that under pitching could stress the yeast or if...

First a huge thanks to all the experienced brewers that have answered questions, not only mine but others as well because they answered questions I didn't even know I had. In less than two months I have went from not really knowing how to do an extract brew to doing a partial mash with no big...

OK I am currently doing my second Extract recipe right now but I have spent a lot of time on here and researching brewing online. I want to go to partial mash but the place I want to order from doesn't have premade partial mash. I like pale ales and this is the recipe I have designed based on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/12/17/game-of-thrones-beer_n_2318171.html As a huge fan of Game of Thrones and beer I am excited. Anybody have any experience with the brewer? Sorry if I messed up linking story not familiar with linking from the Kindle.

I am really cheap and was trying to come up with a way to keep my fermentation temp cooler. My first batch got quite warm and had the dreaded banana flavor. I believe my second went better by getting the wort temp down to 70° before pitching yeast and keeping a frozen bottle of water and a...

First thanks to all the veterans that answer questions here, even the ones that aren't mine have taught me a lot. Second, even after all the mistakes I made from spilling sanitizing water all over the floor to way too high fermenting temperatures I still made a decent beer. My first batch...

First I have no intention of doing this but I was looking at yeast and the thought crossed my mind. What if I started a batch and it didn't start fermenting and the only thing I had around was wine yeast what would happen. Would it taste really bad or just a little off? Would it dry it more...

I am just starting out and am actually bottling my first batch tomorrow. While thinking about it I got to wondering how much I drink in the future will be commercial and how much will be homebrew. So approximately what percentage of your consumption is homebrew/commercial?

Brewed my first beer two weeks ago and my fermentation stopped after about 3 days and now my airlock is bubbling pretty hard. Does this happen often? Should I be concerned?

From what I can tell adding 4 oz. of DME and 4 oz. of corn sugar will will boost ABV by about 0.5% per five gallon. So I am thinking about adding this mixture to kits that start in the 4-5% range. First, does that sound about right? Second, will this have any negative impact on the taste of...

I got my equipment and kit in today and will make my first batch tomorrow. I have been researching as much as I can over the last couple of weeks but still have some questions. First question is on adding hops. I know the schedule but do I just throw them in or put them in a bag? Or do I...