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Yes the old wives tales are true. Beer does increase milk supply. Specifically, the barley and the hops. The B vitamins in the yeast are also good for making milk more nutritious. Oatmeal and fenugreek are also known galactagogues. So I wanted to make a beer specifically geared for boosting...

Yeah, it was worth it. I pretty much just substituted spent grains instead of breadcrumbs. It seems really wet when it's raw, but the grains absorb more than you think they will, so the danger is your meatloaf could get overly dry if you add too much. So have a decent sauce ready just in...

Is there any reason I can't just use 5 gallons of apple juice and a dose of yeast, without adding anything else? Maybe a few cinnamon sticks, but that's it.

You'll get far more surface area from grinding the beans, and consequently a lot more flavor. I did 3 oz of freshly ground coffee in my mocha stout, and it was intense. It was my first time adding anything at secondary and I didn't think to sterilize it, but I had no problem with it.

Besides the honey, theres also the yeast. It's also a dry yeast, which get to work a lot faster than the liquid varieties, but also calm down faster. Don't be surprised if you get nearly nothing from the airlock after only a day or two.

I don't personally mlike coconut, but I make homemade coconut milk for my 18 month old with an intolerance to dairy. If you toast up the spent coconut after making milk, you'll get all the same coconut flavor with far less of the head destroying fats, since it will nearly all come out in the...

If you're looking for something he'd love but would never buy himself, consider some custom tap handles.

I sewed up two grain bags and two hop bags while the 80/- wort was boiling. Still have enough voile left to make a BIAB when the hubby decides what pot to buy.

I'm just curious as to where individual preferences lie. All else being equal, do you prefer to drink ales or lagers? Personally, 99.9% of the beers I like are ales. I only ever met one lager that I truly enjoyed. But to be fair, the only reason I drank that lager was because it was at a...

This looks like the same kofta recipe I've made, but I've only used beef. My six year old will eat himself sick when I make it. I have to double the recipe. It's really fantastic with either a classic tzatziki sauce or a tomato basil sauce.

Midwest accidentally sent me an extra kit this month. It's a basic porter kit. I want to play around with it, and I'm thinking of racking it into 5 separate 1-gallon jugs with different adjuncts. Here's what I've come up with so far: Chocolate Covered Cherry Porter - make compote from...

And if you were going to use spirits to sanitize your coffee, I'd use vodka or everclear and just add the alcohol with the coffee so you don't lose any of the alcohol soluble flavors, but also don't introduce any oaky whiskey favors. Although an Irish whiskey coffee stout sounds awesome.

Actually if you leave a used French press long enough, you WILL see moldy coffee. I've done it more times than I'm willing to admit.

I know this is a very old thread, but the idea of men bumbling around a fabric store and getting no help wakes up the mama bear in me and I wanted to shed a little light on the topic. The photos in your OP are gone, but since you said you got them in the bridal section, I'm going to suppose you...

This is similar to the shrimp my mom makes and it's wonderful. I change it up by putting a few tablespoons of garam masala in the melted butter instead of the Cajun herbs & spices.

If you fill your rinse aid cup with distilled white vinegar, it's just as effective as commercial rinse aids, and should have no effect on head retention.

Hops are great for toiletries because of their preservative properties. For soap, I would just crumble them and add them when you add the super fats, after most of your base fats are saponified.

That's why hubby and I like to make it a three way.

Since this is my fourth pregnancy, the emotional upheaval has more or less mellowed compared to my first. I still have bad days, but not like it used to be. The brain thing is for real, though. It's like how men joke about not being able to think straight when the little brain has all the...

First, I almost forgot to add the starsan to the water before sanitizing 48 bottles. Then after filling 8 or 9 bottles, I realized I forgot to add the priming sugar. Then I tried capping a bottle that didn't actually have a cap on it. Seriously, anything you've ever heard about pregnant...