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Hello, all! As the title says, for various reasons I haven't done any brewing for about a year. I have a Dopplebock that has been in the primary for around 10 months. I had pitched it onto a cake of Wyeast German Ale yeast which I had used to brew another beer, so some of the yeast is...

After I bottled my spiced holiday porter, it took me a few days to get around to cleaing out the BB that it had been in. I had used some high-quality cinnamon in the beer that had a high oil content- well, the oil dried to a scum all over the inside of the bottle, that two soakings in Oxyclean...

My first meadmaking experience was a success (my raspberry melomel,) and now my wife wants me to make a traditional sweet mead. I've been looking around for a good price on raw varietal honey, as I'm intrested in using a single type of honey if possible. So far, price-wise, NB's basswood honey...

...even if you don't think it will blow off, use a tube anyways! :o I started a batch of Belgian Pale Ale on Saturday, and pitched some WLP530. I had a lag of about 24 hours, and by Sunday night, it was starting to slowly bubble. By Monday morning, there was a thin layer of yeast on top...

I'm on my 2nd week of my caramel cider 2.0, and I'm thinking that this time, I'm not going to bother trying to forcibly make a sweet/flavorful cider that is also naturally carbonated...I'm just going to kill off the yeast, sweeten to my liking with concentrate/real sugar (I don't like the taste...

I got to try out my new brew equipment yesterday- 8 gallon pot, immersion chiller, and SQ14 burner- and made my first all-grain brew. All went pretty well (as I'll outline below,) but once I was done and the wort was chilled, I noticed that there was a massive amount of trub- much more than...

I recently got a 8gal "Megapot" from AHBS so I could start doing some stovetop AG batches (I did a stovetop partial mash before with success.) Unfortunately, it turns out that my electric stove is not up to snuff! I have one of those glass/ceramic topped ones- I never had a problem getting a...

A first time for everything I guess. I just tried the first bottle of my chocolate stout after 2 weeks of carbing (I like to try my beers at this point, usually they are fairly flat but I get an idea of what they'll taste like.) However, after I uncapped this one, foam began to slowly creep...

Like many others here I'd bet, I got my first experience in making cider by trying EdWort's Apfelwein recipe. It turned out really well, but I'm one who likes to experiment and try new things, so lately I've been thinking, "what next?" Thus, I want to try to make a sweeter, caramel-flavored...

A little over a month ago, I started a chocolate stout using this recipe: 0.5 lb roasted barley, and 0.5lb chocolate malt- steeped for 20 min @ 160f 4 lbs light DME 6 lbs dark DME 0.5 oz Nugget @ 60 min 1 oz Williamette @ 15 min 1 tsp Irish Moss @ 15 min 6 oz cocoa powder (emulsified...

A few weeks ago I started a thread (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=55515) about some ideas I had concerning "jazzing up" a barleywine kit from NB. Since then though, they increased the prices of their kits, and my LHBS (which I was planning to use to supply some of the extra hops...

I've been thinking about brewing up a barleywine that I can age for a while and start drinking next winter- I've been looking at various recipies here as well as kits from retailers, and have decided that NB's barleywine looks to be a good deal for the ingredients you get (compared to buying the...

Firstoff, I'll give credit where it is due- I'm tweaking sirsloop's German Chocolate Stout recipie as a base, and taking inspiration from some of the other stout/chocolate stout recipies I've seen traded here. I don't have any brewing software (yet!), so I'm going with my intuition on some of...

Well, I'm in the midst of making my first beer that required a blow-off (a wheat, no surprise there,) and will be racking it to a secondary for a fruit addition tomorrow. I am wondering one thing though- what to do with the gunked-up blowoff tubing? How many here clean and re-use it, and if...

Hello everyone! I've been lurking here for a few months absorbing new information (which is the sort of thing I do pretty much every time I pick up a new hobby.) I finally decided to register, posted a few times in EdWort's Apfelwein threads, and now...here I am, posting about beer :mug: I...