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Anyone know any good gluten free Christmas beer recipes? I'd like to brew one for a friend and can't seem to find one in the recipe section.

Eight days ago I brewed a light orange ale. The starting gravity was right on. I went to move it to a secondary (there was ginger root in the recipe and I didn't want any more ginger in there passed the primary, so I moved it to a secondary to get it off the cake). I took a reading while...

I'm going to be bottling my first shandy attempt tonight. It calls for a 1/2 gallon of lemonade to be added at the time of bottling (for a 5 gallon batch). I'm wondering if that will be enough sugar to produce a decent carbonation or if I should add additional sugar to it.

I made two wheat beers this weekend, one shandy and one strawberry blonde. The shandy was pretty straight forward, wheat and pale grains with 2 oz Willamette hops. I forget the yeast right now, but I want to say it was an ale yeast. It has been sitting for four days now without even the...

What's the best way to accomplish this? From what I've read, artificial sweeteners may create an off-taste in the end even though it won't ferment while fermenting sweeteners could burst bottles. Any suggestions for something that would sweeten without fermenting or a method by which I can...

So I found a recipe that I'd really like to try. I've always wanted to get the Sam Adams Utopias, but since the only place I can ever seem to find it is eBay (and I don't want to pay $100+ for a small decanter), I was going to try the following: http://hopville.com/recipe/285906 My...

I will be doing a Blonde this weekend (just don't tell me wife). It calls for . 5 oz Centennial (.25 at 55 min, .25 at 35 min) and .5 oz Cascade (.25 oz at 20 min, .25 oz at 5 min). I have the .5 oz Cascade left over from another brew. I don't have the Centennial on hand though. I know...

I've got a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale clone in a secondary right now (you needed to secondary because you add bourbon soaked oak chips to it at that point to get the bourbon oak barrel taste the commercial brew does). Anyway, I went to see where it was gravity wise yesterday. I tasted the...

I will be the first to tell you that I am not wonderful when it comes to wood building projects. However, I have an idea for a home bar and a work station that I would like to build, but I need help figuring out what I'll need to get the project done. If there is anyone out there who'd be...

I've been brewing since December, but am on my 8th brew already and had many more planned for this year. That is until my brewery's accountant, aka my wife, asked how much they would cost. My budget has been cut significantly now. What are some good ways to lessen the cost of the brew...

Brewed a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale clone last week. I neglected/forgot to add a Whirfloc tablet. When I moved it to the secondary yesterday it was cloudy. Besides just letting it sit and hopefully clearing up some more, is there anything I can add to a secondary that will help it clear?

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I'm brewing a Kentucky Bourbon Barrel ale clone. Put it in the primary yesterday, came to check it today to find the lid blown off and the airlock completely clogged. I washed out the airlock and replaced it, worried that the fermentation had ended, but as soon as I replaced the lid and the...

I'm going to be doing a couple beers this weekend that involve about 20 pounds of grain. While my local supply store provides a mill for free, I don't really feel like running back and forth for that if I can just do it with something I already have at home. My wife has a hand powered chopper...

So I'm relatively new to home brew. I've done a Christmas Porter, a raspberry and have a stout in my secondary. I've been pleased with the porter and raspberry. I've done all of these from established recipes. I follow the directions as far as the amount of time they sit in the primary and...

Has anyone ever tried using ground up simple candies (Pez, smarties, any other basic "compressed sugar" kind of candies) in place of regular sugar when bottling? As a Pez collector and home brewer, I was trying to think of a way to combine the two. I didn't really think adding the candies to...