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I've brewed this beer twice now for competitions, originally it was done for the Michigan Iron Brewer (they chose Hibiscus & Ginger as mystery ingredients) and later I rebrewed it for Bell's competition and got a top 10 finish (out of 143 entries). Full write-up and downloadable beer.xml is...

I've been playing around with the plastic bucket liners I first saw in BYO. It's worked well until I accidentally introduced wild yeast to some of my bucket lids. Rather than replace the lids, I've come up with a solution that I think offers a sanitary solution for primary fermentation that...

I've now done two separate ward lab reports. They are (I think) largely the same, though they are seasonally separate (July/Feb), both drawn off my hot water since I use that for brewing currently and between that time I did end up replacing the water heater. Not sure that made much...

I'm curious with 1 IBU or less of hops in the beer, has anyone had any experience if you can actually skunk a sour beer? My main curiosity comes from the fact that I don't nearly as "low cost" a source of heavy duty champagne type bottles for bottling sours in as I do for beer. Green...

So this maybe belongs in the photo collection thread but it's really strange. I bought a bottle of Jolly Pumpkin Bam Bier and dumped probably the last full ounce into a sterile starter (was pressure cooked) and I expected to see a normal pellicle... Instead I have something that looks like it...

Anyone know a reason why top cropped yeast from the first full day of fermentation on a Barleywine would be a problem? It was pitched on a huge starter and was really active when I went to crop (still is given its only day 2 now ;) ) I'm thinking its fine since the alcohol % isn't really high...

Got it and 8 bottles of Beer Line cleaner + a ton of faucet parts off Craigslist tonight. Whole lot was only $20 but included this oddity. I guess it was used to clean 2 taps at a time. Guy used to work for a distributor or something and cleaned/serviced lines. Kept all this when he quit...

I have 3 hops planted along the side if my house and one of them is starting to turn yellow on it's lower leaves. It has the most hops on it right now and is the largest one I have. I tried putting some slow release fertilizer around it. We have had a decent amount of rain lately so I haven't...

I have some reading to do I'm sure to understand this fully, but I thought I'd throw it out here for comments and in case anyone in my area who hasn't tested might want a general idea of what the well water out here looks like, at least from my ~50 ft deep well right off the shore of the lake...

Anyone have any experience with the vodka used to make a spice tincture adding off/foul flavors to a beer? I've done a few recipes that called for a tincture to be made (one had a full cup/8oz of vodka being used for the tincture). Now they said to use the cheapest/rotgut vodka I could find...