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Hey folks.. Been reading the "Brew Like A Monk" and have tried out some recipes. My question is with regards to the lagering at near-freezing temperatures most recipes include. I don't have a fridge big enough for my carboys so I'm looking to doing a secondary at room temp instead. Is this a...

So I'm going to Islay next week, visits to Ardbeg, Bruichladdich and Caol Ila are scheduled. I'm thinking about trying to score some of their smoked malt. Does anyone know if this is possible? Surely, the destilleries must be able to part with a few ounces of malt? Surely, I can't be the...

Hello, It seems to me that this forum is the place to go to for questions related to brewing with Brett and aged hops. So here goes.. I just found a couple of 100 gram packs of nasty old hops (Brewer's gold 2001) at a homebrew supply (in Sweden). Nevermind the fact that the vendor was...

Yup.. my fridge went completely haywire over the holidays and when we returned to the apartment yesterday I found, to my horror and despair, that all of my yeasts had frozen.. And I mean frozen, rock solid -15 C. Since these weren't glycerol stocks I'm worried they might have died.. What'd...

So.. as I'm getting ready to make a starter of a month old Belgian Abbey yeast that I had stored in my fridge, I notice a furry little blob of mold sitting inside the lid of the tube. The yeast itself looked/smelled fine but I tossed it out.. but then got to thinking.. What if I had made that...