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So I got the berry beer kit (KIT: 431 on their site) from morebeer. It’s an all grain kit with and estimated OG of 1.041-45 for a 5 gallon batch according to the instructions included with the kit. They’re assuming 70% efficiency. The ingredients included are as follows: 10# 2-row 1# white...

So I started kegging recently. Right now I've been keeping two kegs and my co2 tank inside my brew shed fridge, but I'd like to move the tank outside the fridge to make room for a third keg. I'm thinking I'll drill a hole through the side of the fridge, mount the tank next to it, and run a...

So I made my first starter Friday from a pouch of wlp001 California ale yeast. It ended up being about 1.25 liters of 1.040 starter wort. I basically followed the instructions from the How to Brew website. Over the next couple of days I checked in on it and I couldn't really tell if anything...

Ok so sometime this weekend I'm going to attempt to speed brew a simple cream ale to see what I can make happen. I'm trying to lay out a plausible timeline for the day to make sure I have the procedure cemented in my mind so as to eliminate any delays while I puzzle over what my next step...

Lately I've been trying to cut my brew day down to the absolute minimum possible. I've got a baby due in October, and I don't know how much time I'm going to have to devote to brewing after that. I feel like if I can cut my brew days down to 3 hours or less, I can probably squeeze in some very...

I've been bemoaning my area's lack of any of these great beers everyone here seems to drink for months now. Lo and behold a grocery store just across the Mississippi river that I never thought to check has a selection of great names that puts everywhere else around here to shame. They let you...

Type: All Grain Batch Size: 6.00 gal Boil Time: 60 min End of Boil Vol: 6.25 gal Final Bottling Vol: 5.50 gal Fermentation: Ale, Single Stage Equipment: 10 gallon BIAB 5.5 gallon batch Efficiency: 75.00 % Est Mash Efficiency: 75.0 % Ingredients 6 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0...

So I've noticed that since I built my fermentation chamber, not only has my beer been better, but I've experienced a sharp decline in the frequency and intensity of any hangovers I've had. Homebrew hangovers seems to potentially swing to the two extremes. They can be worse than anything you've...

So I've got 3 refrigerators in my brewery now. Two of them are minifridges which I have earmarked as fermentation chambers. The other one is the old side-by-side refrigerator/freezer combo that used to be in my house before we got our new fridge. I know a common modification to a side by side...

So I've got some extract kits that I really need to brew. I'm going to do a vanilla cream ale this weekend from my LHBS. I have two problems with it though. The first one is that I've been bitten by the all-grain bug. I just don't have much motivation to make extract kits now. The second...

So I had my first BIAB experience last weekend. Everything went pretty smoothly, but I had a question. The recipe called for a 90 minute mash, so I knew I'd lose a lot of heat during the course of it. With that in mind, I put my grains in when the water was a couple of degrees above what...

So I put an irish amber ale in the fermenter Saturday. It's the northern brewer kit with steeping grains, and I added a bit of DME to it to give it a bit more kick. The OG as measured was 1.052 and my expected FG according to brewer's friend is 1.012. I just check the gravity last night and...

I had a combined brewing/bottling day Saturday, and I had a few wheat beers from a previous batch throughout the course of it. It was a long day, so I don't doubt that I had a few more than I should have, but that's not really the problem. I woke in the wee hours of the morning with perhaps...

So I got a minifridge and temperature controller, cut all the shelving out of it, and verified that my 6.5 gallon glass carboy fits. I'm very excited by the possibilities this opens up for my brewing. I luckily had a pale ale that was just finishing up in the closet, and I thought I'd try it...

So I just put my first beer in the fermenter the day before yesterday. It's an extract based Cream ale that was apparently made in-house at a local homebrew supply store. Everything went swimmingly and there's a healthy looking krausen with lots of airlock activity currently. I take that to...