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Okay, at the Chairman's behest, I will inaugurate this fattening thread. Let's all post a favorite "goes with beer" (like anything doesn't....) snack. One of my all time favorite dips is made with a layer of refried beans, a layer of guacamole, a layer of salsa, a layer of ground beef (spiced...

Is there some kind of special ingredient which makes pilseners snappy rather than smooth? I've just done up a pils kit and the thing is inredibly crisp considering I used Nottingham yeast (albeit at pretty cool temperatures for ale). I'm kind of in the process of figuring out ale vs lager...

Okay, I did up a kit yellow beer, and it's full of little (I mean really really little) floaties. Never seen anything like it. Bentonite was used, and the yeast was Nottingham. The floaties seem to settle by brute force if I chill the beer real fast. Any thoughts? Beer tastes fine... no...

... you need a lot of bottles. Cheyco and his Mongol Horde (extra thirsty) stopped by on Friday night and ravaged my stock. None made it out even remotely sober, and now I've got a bunch of space on my shelves for the next batches. Some things are meant to be, I guess. I can never tell if...

As an addendum to the bass players thread, I thought I'd throw this out, with one condition. You can't name Hendrix, Van Halen, Satriani, Vai, or Malmsteen. For instance, a recent English guitar mag included Joni Mitchell in a top 100 list, because of her wild tunings, and unorthodox approach...

I did up an Alexander Keith's clone (no Budweiser clone available ;) ) as my first lager. Primary fermentation at about 14 C went well. Krausen died back after a week, but steady bubbling in airlock. I racked to secondary after three weeks. No krausen but still some airlock activity. I...

What do you all think of this? Here are two emails I sent to [email protected] "Greetings: My friends and myself are enjoying a lot of your homebrew kits, but we have a couple of problems. First, we (as Canadians) regard the instructions that come with the kit (eg. Add 1 kg...

The formulate vs. follow recipe question got me to thinking, I wonder (as a formulator/tweaker) how many other people here brew the way I mostly do now, which is to take a basic recipe or kit, and throw a bunch of interesting stuff in it to see what happens. My recipes seem to have "bunch of...

How does one get fermentables out of flaked rice? Is there some special mash process? Same as other grains??? I don't know what to do with this stuff!

What happens if you do a prolonged cool or cold secondary with ale yeast? Anything good? I like using ale yeasts to get a nice full draught-style lager out of bottles. But I haven't tried lagering them proper, and I wonder if I should?

I'm interested in brewing up a dark pilsener, and thinking about using Morgan's Golden Saaz for a base to work from. I've got Cascades and Saaz hops on hand, and Black Patent malt, and some light DME. Anyone have any thoughts as to how much of what a guy might want? I'm thinking 4 oz of the...

Hey Gang... I've returned from the abyss... I got very busy in Nov and Dec. and was having login troubles to boot. But now I have a bit of time, and got things sorted out. So bad advice is now readily available once again.

I just threw some powdered oak from a wine kit into the red ale I have in primary, (pitched friday night). My God, after ten minutes, the foam is now at the top of the primary bucket, which means I have some 20 liters of foam... I moved the thing into the sink. Why would it go spazzy like this?

If a guy was going to make a batch of malt-extract based beer, and wanted some kind of red/amber ale, what's an easy recipe? Papazian suggests amber malt extract and a little bit of roasted barley. Anyone tried it that way? Any favorite brands of extract?

Okay, I have officially designated a fermentation corner in the basement. I gots me a sink with a sprayer and everything. All I had to do was point out to the wife that her kitchen sink was pretty small, and presto, it's mine, and she's got a new double-wide shining away in the kitchen. All...

I am kind of toying with the idea of getting some cherry flavour into a wheat beer. I suspect that this could be really terrific, or really awful. Anyone with any ideas?

Well, I thought my primary was more or less finished, after not quite 5 days in the bucket, and the main sort of pancake was dissipating, so I transferred to secondary. Well, musta been a bit early, because my God, she started foaming like hell, and immediately fouled the air-lock. Happily, I...

Well, I've tried both the "return to primary vessel and mix priming sugar" and Deinekles' method of putting the sugar solution into the secondary and stirring gently, and I have to say I'm convinced that Dein's way is better in terms of aeration. The trub is undisturbed, and you really...

What do you guys see as the time frame for ideal drinking on bottle-conditioned beers? Does it depend on style? I'm noticing that after 1 month, the beer is noticeably better than at 2 weeks, and I understand it stores well for a long time... is it way better after 5 months?

Dry pitched 15 g of Cooper's (from Australia) onto a stout kit at about 20 C on saturday night. As of Sunday night, about 4 inches of foam on top of the wort. I was pretty impressed. Anyone else used that brand?