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Every spring/Summer I like to experiment with a new fruit or spice based version of my base Belgian Witbier. One of the most popular with my friends is my pomegranate wit, which takes the same grainbill and I take 3 quarts of Pom brand Pomegranate Juice (which I boil down and reduce by half)...

There's a few threads on this topic around the web, including here, and usually most of the answers given are "Good Lord, why would you want to do a thing like that?" Or "Have two kegs." Neither very helpful.... Thanks to Good Brewing Buddy/HBT Mod, Homercidal, I am the proud owner of a...

I know we talk a lot on here about SMASH recipes, with our favorite single hop varieties, I'm really interested in folk's favorite pairs now. I usually have an IPA constantly on tap, they're either one single hop, (usually Centennial) or Cascade or lately Citra, or they're an uber complicated...

Cotton Candy for grownups!!! So tomorrow is National Homebrewing Day, and at our large event I usually like to brew or do something that has a bit of a wow factor involving beer. About a month ago I was craving good old fashioned cotton candy. Someone mentioned that machines could be...

Glad to see our neighbors to the North won't cotton to the undead.

Since Christmas I've become obsessed with both Charcuterie and Molecular Gastronomy. I've been meaning to make a couple threads on some of the things I've been doing. I put together a curing "cabinet" for meat that can fit into any small closet or room where the temp is in the 60's, I've come up...

Anyone need bottles? I have TONS. Most of them in handy dandy milk crates that hold 1 case worth. Most are delabled, though some I was too lazy to de-label or to return to the right store.... I'm off the week between Christmas and New Year's if you want to meet at say Dragonmead to affect a...

We just had in the Metro Detroit Area an Iron Brewer Competition hosted by one of the local homebrew shops. There were 15 of 16 beers entered (sadly, one of the beers from one of our HBT members ended up on floor during a kegging leak.) All the teams had to be setup at 9 am, at 10 am 2...

Over the last couple of days I've been reading a few very interesting Charcuterie blogs. One of them, Punk Domestics is an aggregate blog to other food blogs. Amongst the zillions of interesting recipes for everything from making your own liquor, to bacon making, to bacom liquor making, were a...

This is how you really make beer. And why you shouldn't try selling your beer. ;)

I don't know why I never asked this before. I know I've posted about my involvement in historical base ball on here for years and no one's jumped in and said they play or umped or whatever, but I've never asked as a thread title that might reach out to more on here. I've been involved with it...

I just heard a commercial for Trader Joe's Pumpkin "Butter" (No butter/fat in it) and thought it might be interesting to use in a pumpkin beer. Evidently it has no artificial ingredients or preservatives and is made up of only Pumpkin,sugar, honey,lemon juice concentrate,spices...

Greene King's "The Beer to Dine For." Evidently it is a re-branding of Greene King Hop as a beer meant to be paired with food. It has to be the most tasteless and boring beer I've ever tasted. But Light is even more "complex" than this colored water. I'm not going to waste precious liver cells...

I think there's a Red Robin on the corner of my street (my radar ignores chain restaurants) I think I might have to stop in and give it a try. I wonder if we get to keep the Sam Adam's glass.

I finally made it to this tiny butcher/wild game processor shop today, and came back with some gator and a tiny ostrich roast. I could have easily dropped a couple hundred bucks on everything from rattlesnake to kangaroo (next time) and wild boar. I'm thinking about just doing Alligator...

Sadly UK, only as of now....

When trying to come up with tap handles I wanted something that I could change whenever I changed a beer. But the only alternatives seemed to be the blackboard/white board style. I wanted something a little more graphically appealing (plus my handwriting sucks,) and something that I could...

I've searched and looked at hundreds of keezer build threads, both on here and the rest of the web and I can't seem to find a decent pic or diagram of the wiring layout for how folks who have their Temp controllers mounted on the front of the collar. Like this one; I'm not talking...

I just picked one up for $85.00 from Adventures in Homebrewing. (I swear I paid 85 for mine, though now it appears to be listed as $89.00 It might have been on sale a week ago when I ordered it. My 50th Birthday Barleywine is going in it first.

...moron? The Doc wants me to reduce/eliminate my starch intake, and surprisingly that includes brown/wild rice which I love. Basically I can eat all the meat/chicken/fish protein I want and veggies (as long as it's not potatoes.) Plus I know I'm not getting enough bran in me. So I decided to...