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So I pitched onto a yeast cake for the first time 2 weeks ago. Everything went according to plan, and by the time I finished racking my beer into the carboy I could swear I could see clumps of yeast *leaping* off the bottom of the carboy into solution. I had rinsed the yeast about an hour...

Oops... So I misread my brewsheet and threw in half an ounce of hops when I mashed in, instead of throwing it into the brew kettle when I drained the sweet wort. Realized my error about 20 minutes into a 90 minute mash. Thankfully, I had enough hops to keep to the proper hops schedule...

Last week I had to fly into the SF Bay area to do some work, and met up with an old high school friend and his wife for dinner. They love BJ's Restaurant & Brewery, so I agreed to go there with them. I'm late due to work, but when I show up the waitress asks if I'd like a beer after...

It's been 4 hours or so, and I feel like I've recovered enough to briefly relate the insanity I willingly subjected myself to. I hope some of you can laugh at this, because it was a *long* day. The goal: 4 5 gallon batches of mead plus 1 5 gallon batch of stout PM. The idiots... errr...

Hi folks. So tomorrow our resident mead freak is making the drive to cook up about 20 gallons of the golden elixir with us, since he found out we could probably lay down about 50 or 60 carboys if we really wanted to get insane with our fermentation room. I had a question though. The local...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to design a beer. I know what function I want it to serve, I know the name I want to call it (The Parting Glass), and since I don't have a *lot* of beer experience, I wanted to see if anyone could help me come up with a good recipe. I've done mostly extracts and...

Hey folks. Finally decided to get around to making labels. I wasn't looking for anything fancy, but moreso something that feels a little more old-world. The below is what I came up with. The artwork is from a lithograph done at the end of the 18th century, taken from a portfolio of old...

So I've been here a few days, but haven't had any final product worth mentioning. In fact, I had already bottled when I discovered this fine place, so I couldn't really even say if my endeavors were a success or not. Until tonight. I feel triumphant. I want to share the experience, but I'm...

Hi folks! I've been browsing through this forum for a few hours now and decided I should probably join. I'm a 27 year old system administrator living about an hour out of Los Angeles, and I've been helping a few friends homebrew for a year or two now. I recently decided that I should...