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Is anyone aware of something in Birch Root Beer extract (Old Fashioned Homebrew brand I believe) that could be toxic to yeast? I've made many successful batches of root beer, naturally carbonating with yeast - but I've tried 4 batches so far with this Birch Root Beer extract and it just doesn't...

I scored some brewing stuff from a friend who hasn't brewed in about 10 years and has no plans to start up again - a couple of glass carboys, hydrometer, 24 swing top Grolsch bottles, 18 22 ounce bottles, several dozen caps and a capper. Inside the box was also a lb of corn sugar (unopened), a...

Up to today I've only done Mr. Beer kits but thanks to DeathBrewer's tutorial (and lots of other help here on HBT) I built the nerve to jump to PM. If anyone's interested, here's how it went. Feel free to add comments or suggestions on my technique, in fact please do. Recipe: (PM version...

I'm planning to brew the PM version of EdWort's Haus Pale Ale: bee-cave-brewery-haus-pale-ale Being my first PM, (and first non-Mr. Beer kit) I have a couple questions. 1) I was planning a late LME addition to a partial boil, can I do that with just the mini-mash wort to increase the hop...

A couple of days ago I racked a Blonde Ale to secondary (after 12 days), and because there were still a lot of hop floaties in it, I used a muslin hop bag rubber banded to the end of the hose as a strainer. Now I'm wondering if I also filtered out my yeast and it won't carb when I bottle...