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I'm curious if anyone else does this. I'm not super well versed in the area of cigars, but I definitely enjoy a nice beer/homebrew with a proper cigar. I refuse to smoke more than about 4-5 times a year, since I also do lots of long distance running, but when I do I like to have a nice beer...

So I was doing a little reading reading tonight, and I came across a beer brewing document that says something to the effect of "Hops contribute to the appearance of a beer." The source is here: (Click on the pdf about hops and hops-products at the top) The institute of Brewing &...

My friends and I regularly do a tasting night for a type of beer. I've decided to make the next one a little more serious. We are doing a fruit beer dinner and I am going to make it a dinner/beer pairing night. I've been attempting to do research on what pairs well with what kind of beer...

I just made (yesterday) EdWort's all grain bee cave brewery ipa, here is the recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/bee-cave-brewery-ipa-59907/ Everything went great, hit my gravity and it's bubbling away now. It calls for 1oz centennial to be dry hopped. Which is fine and dandy...

I'm sure some of you have been in this situation before... A really good friend of mine from college wants me in his wedding. Sweet. He knows I brew beer and he loves it. So I ask, "Do you want some brewed for the reception? or rehearsal dinner? or just to have for relatives there?...", He...

So most crazy posts start out with... I had this idea... Well, I have this idea... I have been messing with GIMP more and more and want to make a picture/collage of all of our 'dream beers'. What I want is beer ideas. I DO NOT want this to turn into an argument over which beer is better-...

Ok, I've been playing with numbers and percentages for a while, and here is a recipe I've come up with: Volume: 5 gallons Type: All Grain Style: Porter (Not sure what kind of Porter yet) OG: 1.045 Ingredients: 6.5 lbs Pale 2Row 1.25 lbs Chocolate Malt 1 lb Crystal 60L 0.5 lbs Oats (Flaked) 1...

For the past year, I have been saving beer caps and labels (the ones that stay intact when cleaning bottles). I have a lot now. Inventory: ~2000 Bottle Caps. ~ 500 Labels of all different sizes. My plan for the Bottle caps has been to make a mosaic eventually. So what I've done is scan...

So in visiting Seattle this week, I decided to hit up a beer-specialty shop, since we have none in my area. Here is my brew-haul from Seattle: The Haul: Back Row (Left to right): Dogfish Head 90 min IPA Dogfish Head 60 min IPA Stone Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale Pike's Brewery IPA Pike's...

Hey, in about a week I will be visiting seattle for a week (conference for work), and I will have some down time after 5pm. Any must sees? I plan on visiting Brewtopia's Naked City Taphouse of course! Any others?

So I can't find prickly pear fruit up here in Montana. Even if I could it probably would be ridiculously expensive. I would like to trade with someone that has easy access to it. Although I'm not sure what I could trade for... Southwest Montana does have some great huckleberries (fresh...

I love beersmith. Recently I have switched to an all-grain setup. I have a igloo 10 gallon cooler with a braid and a big turkey deep fryer as a boiler. (I fly sparge) I'm pretty sure I have entered my equipment correctly. Recently beersmith has been giving me incorrect volumes. I ask for...

Can't seem to find oak chips. I've found Maple, Hickory, Apple wood, etc... at the local hardware shop in the grill isle. But no one has oak. Where do you people that have them get them? Should I just pick a dead branch off an oak tree? Or will it matter much if I use a different wood...

So a few months back, a thread popped up about a $2 dollar deal on a customizable shirt plus shipping: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f46/those-you-labels-sweet-deal-82043/ Anyways, I used an image I found from this website to make my shirt, but have lost the original image, here is the...

I’ve decided to look into the debate of using a starter or not. I, personally, do not usually use a starter very often, and have not noticed a difference. (Not to my eyes at least). But just because we can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not helping. Seeing as I love...

Hi everyone, I have never seen this, but after 3 weeks (1 week fermenting, 2 weeks in secondary), one of my beers has started to bubble again yesterday. I brewed on 7-30 Cheesefood's Vanilla Caramel Creme Ale, and reracked after the bubbles stopped to a secondary (8-04), had a day of bubbling...

Hey everyone, My sister has been engaged for a while and they finally set a date... last weekend in May 2009. I've decided one of my 'gifts' will be to reduce her alcohol cost and start brewing 8-10 5-gallon batches of beer. (there will roughly be 75-100 people) I'm also currently making a...

Hey everyone, just started a few months ago, on my 4th batch so far. I've decided to organize my homebrew notes on the batches into a nice binder. So instead of randomly writing stuff on sheets of paper (I'm a horrible writer) I was looking for a template that would include all the important...