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Hi all, I moved to central Texas a couple years ago and decided to give growing hops a shot. I got 3 rhizomes each of Cascade, Centennial, and Crystal and picked them up at Austin Homebrew Supply around May I believe. Anyway, 2/3 Cascade, 3/3 Centennial, and 2/3 Crystal all started vines...

Hi all, This year I tried growing some hops on the balcony of my apartment. The one that really took off was Columbus, and I have maybe 3-4 oz of dried hops from that plant. They smelled good but as always you can't really know the quality of homegrown without testing and I've also heard...

I've made the Northern Brewer Hefeweisen kit a couple times now with the Wyeast Weihenstephan yeast. First batch came out pretty good, temp in my apartment is in the low 70s so it had more banana flavors. Decided I would try to brew it again! Anyway, second batch I did pretty much...

I recently brewed the NB Smash kit. This involved dry hopping with one ounce of Simcoe. When it was bottling time, I primed with 2/3 cup as directed (as I have with all of my beers). To my surprise, this beer has lots and lots of head. If I pour a bottle into a pint glass, even pouring slow...

I've been brewing extract kits for about 6-7 months now, I with about 7 batches of beer under my belt. I'm a grad student in biology so fermentation has been the most interesting part of brewing so far but I'm getting curious about making my own recipes. I'm starting to get a little familiar...

Right now I'm brewing a saison using Wyeast 3724. I figure fermentation will be done in a few days and then I might rack it to a secondary to let the yeast settle out some more. At the same time as I ordered the saison kit from Northern Brewer, I also ordered the petit saison kit with a pack of...

A little over a week ago I bottled my first hard cider. The yeast used was Red Star premier cuvee. I primed it with some more apple juice at bottling time and the bottles I've opened so far were nice and sparkly. One problem - the yeast stick like crazy to the inside of the bottle! They don't...

I have a Midwest Amarillo pale Ale kit in front of me right now and I'm thinking of brewing it this afternoon (it's my third brew). 2 questions about hops: 1. The instructions say to add half an ounce of Columbus bittering hops during the boil. Whether by mistake or not I don't know, but they...

Hi folks, first batch of homebrew for me. I didn't boil and added the Muntons dry yeast on Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, the airlock was bubbling steadily and this continued all through the day up until I went to bed. Now it's Monday morning and I don't see any bubbles. Is this typical...