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I have no problem with the product, concept, or price point, but this video on NB annoyed the hell out of me. Am I just being a curmudgeon, or does anyone else see this as senseless fear mongering in its portrayal of the world and traditional home brewing techniques presenting grave risk to our...

So I brewed extracts for years and over the last year started brewing all grain using the batch sparge method. Tonight, with lake effect snow moving in, I thought it would be nice to have an indoor brew session, and I am giving partial mash my first shot. I'm brewing from on hand ingredients...

So I created a non-credit course at the community college I work at (I'm the assistant bursar). Called it Homebrewing for the Brilliant. Teaching 2 nights, 2 hours each. Could have easily made it 2 3 hour nights as I found out my first night. It's my first time teaching and I'm having a ball! I...

I brewed a bitters last week. A slight deviation in the recipe from the first time I brewed one. The recipe was: 8 lbs Maris Otter 1/2 lb flaked rye 1/2 lb of Munich 1 oz EKG 60 min 1/2 oz Fuggles at 30 min 1/2 oz Fuggles and EKG at 15 1/2 oz EKG at 5 Strike water 168 for a mash temp of 152 for...

The year was 1992. My friend's wife bought him a homebrewing kit from a department store. It was a bag with extract and yeast that we filled with water, stuck in a closet, had a built in tap, and that we may have added sugar to after a week or so. A few weeks later, we hung the bag from a nail...

Who cares, it's delicious! So last fall my brother in law and I brewed in a bag a batch of beer using 12 lbs of Rahr 2 row pale, a half pound of chocolate wheat, CTZ's for bittering and finished with a bunch of legacy hops from central NY that we grew. Calling it a porter though I guess it...

So a couple months ago I went to our local co-op which stocks a limited number of ingredients to formulate a recipe based on what they had available (I do this every now and then but have always stuck with brown ales). Based on what they had, I put together a pale ale based on what they had...

The perils of not labeling buckets and carboys. I went to rack and dry hop a pale ale I concocted the other night. After adding an oz of cascades to the carboy, I proceeded to bottling a batch of NB's SMaSH session ale. It was then that I realized the beer I had racked and dry hooped was the...

So I moved my latest creation, Poser Ale, a brown ale I made from available ingredients at our local co-op 2to my cellar 2days ago. Tried a few after conditioning at room temperature for a couple weeks and liked where it was heading. Tonight I had a couple and WOW, no green flavor, just clean...

We have a community co-op that sells beer ingredients on a hit and miss basis with great prices. I go down every now and then and build a recipe based on what is available. This was the latest concoction I came up with. Sampled after a week in the bottle last night and it's quite nice. What...

Found so much great information in this forum the last few months I thought I'd finally join. Started brewing over 20 years, took a long hiatus, and now am sucked back in with a full blown obsession. Have only brewed extract and don't plan to move to all grain, though I'm helping my brother in...