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Hey Folks, I'm spending a couple days in Grand Rapids and Lowell, MI in October for a wedding. So I'm looking for a few recommendations for breweries to try and hit while I'm there. I'm 100% going to hit up Founders but looking for maybe two or three more. My trip will also take me through the...

Possibly a dumb question here. But I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. I built a simple keezer with collar not to long ago so I'm not really looking to build anything right now just have my curiosity peeked as I drool over the more extravagant keezers here. When you guys build you coffin...

So I finally got around to buying a propane burner, just a cheap turkey fryer setup from Home Depot but now that has me wanting to build a brew stand that I can roll in and out of my garage. I'm kinda limited on space though and I was considering a stacked design made out of wood. I've attached...

So I kegged up my Strawberry Cream Ale (that's the typical cream ale, no lactose or vanilla added) Pretty typical cream ale recipe aside from the added strawberries. I ended up doing a 90 minute mash because it wasn't fully converted per the iodine test at 60 minutes. Well, my post boil gravity...

I'm in the very early stages of planning a couple wine infused beers for the summer. For both I'm thinking about pretty basic pale ales with wine added. One will be red wine infused and I'm definitely "oaking" that one. I'll soak medium toasted chips in the wine for a week or so then add them in...

I'm sure there are many threads on this already but I thought it'd be fun to start a new one and maybe get some new stories. For me, it actually started roughly 3 years ago. Up until 2015 I actually hated beer. I thought it was the most vial, disgusting pi$$ water dink. Then, I got a new job...

Hey Guys, Finished my first keezedr build. I used the Arctic King 5 cubic foot model from Walmart for 148 and bought a door mount conversion kit from amazon along with an inkbird temp controller. Then I talked a buddy into letting me make use of some of his leftover 2x4s and chop saw to build...

Thought I'd share my recent success in harvesting yeast from a bottle for the first time. I'd read a bit about this and peeked through a few "How-to's." But did't dive deep into it. So this is my success the lazy way. I started with a bottle of Boulevard's Frequent Flyer IPA and notice the...

Found a stray hop pellet on the counter today while making breakfast. It must have gotten away from me after brewing two batches this weekend. Anyway, I had just poured a cup of hot water and dunked in a green tea with jasmine and lemongrass. Thought it'd be a fun experiment to add this pellet...

Ok, so not quite yet. (TL;DR at the bottom) I had an empty fermenter and with too many beer projects laying around, I decided it would remain empty unless I could come up with something quick and dirty that I could set and forget and not have a whole lot of money invested. I started gently...

.... No I did not make lemon beer. And this really isn't a lemon scenario but I wanted something click batey lol. Got some "Classic American Light" Extract with the 3 gallon fast ferment and decided that wouldn't do. Looked around the house and found some molasses (always wanted to brew with...

Hmm, nobody in this area. Guess everybody is too nervous about the grey area for home distilling. Here in Missouri, based on all the research I could do, it is perfectly legal for personal consumption up to 5 gallons per person over the age of 21 in the home. Anyway, I freeze distilled some...

I've embarked on an adventure for my first big stout. I wanted to have some fun with it though, so I developed a recipe for a root beer float stout. Root beer to me has always tasted caramelly and slightly herbal so I aimed for lots of crystal 60L for my caramel, a bit of chocolate malt and...

Yep you read the title right. Chocolate wine. Allow me to tell you a tale.... I recently emptied a whole dill pickle jar and decided to wash and reuse it rather than throwing it away. It sat on my counter for a few days and in that time, I started seeing that empty jar as a micro fermenter...

Saw a few other Missourians posting on the intro page, thought I'd share my location. Anyway, I've been brewing for just under a year at this point after my mom bought me a Mr. Beer kit for Christmas and mostly as a joke. After brewing the two beer-in-a-can beers that were included I did two...