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The Marquette Home Brewers will be hosting a Spring Fermentation Celebration on June 4 in downtown Marquette. I'm not sure yet the full rosters of breweries that will be there, but so far we'll be joined by Beard's, Cheboygan, Short's, Starcut Ciders, Upper Hand, Bell's, and our locals...

I made one gallon of 1.040 starter wort from DME yesterday and added a small handful of base malt to it. 24 hours later, I have a small kräusen and it's clearly fermenting. I know some varieties of lacto can ferment sugar, but isn't this excessive? By tomorrow I think I'll need a blowoff hose...

I made a starter a couple of weeks ago of wyeast 1335 for a lagunitas clone. The smack pack sat in a delivery truck over a long weekend, so needless to say was quite warm when it arrived, although it looked intact. I didn't get any hint of activity for 3 or 4 days, when there was just the...

I'm planning on brewing an ESB this weekend and am looking for feedback on hops. I went on a hops buying binge recently, and now have EKG, fuggles, Bramling Cross, challenger, and some northern brewer that I could use. My latest thought was to use 1 oz challenger at 60min, and 1 oz Bramling...

I was halfway through grinding my grain when I noticed I screwed up and had 3# Munich malt for my IIPA instead of Vienna. It's too late to do anything about it so I'm going to move forward anyways, but I'm wondering what I should expect from this goof? Hate to waste all the hops if it's not...

So I finally got all the pieces and parts together to try out single infusion/batch sparge. It was AWESOME! I mashed indoors in a cooler with water heated on the stove, and did the boil outdoors on my propane burner. Mash temp started and ended within a degree of my target, and sparge...

I pressed 8 gallons of cider in October and split it between a 5-gallon batch with 3.5# sugar and Nottingham, and a 3-gallon batch with honey and d47. The d47 batch went fantastically but the Nottingham took about 3-4 days for the yeast to get started, and when I opened the carboy to add another...

Hello folks: First time posting in this forum, so I apologize if this has been asked dozens of times. I'm getting back into brewing beer after a 10-year break, and looking for some feedback as to whether this is a stupid idea. Rather than doing a partial boil with extract, I'm thinking...