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Ok brewing geeks! I've got one for you that I haven't been able to solve and it's driving me more nuts than I usually am. I've got a case of "disappearing head syndrome" but in a very unique way. But first the back story: Brewed a 12 gallon batch of doppelbock, split it into two different...

I want to make a Maple Pumpkin Mead and was thinking about renting a apple press, sticking pumpkins in it, pressing the juice out and using that as a base for some of the fermentables. My questions are as follows: a) Has anyone done this? b) Think 20 pounds of pie pumpkins would net me enough...

Did some searching and came up null. I'm doing a gruit and want to add some elderberries but don't know how to use them. Any suggestions, times to throw them in, amounts? It's basically going to be my Scottish Wee Heavy recipe (smokey, malty, higher abv) minus the hops and with various spices...

I used the coco coir hop twine last season and left it up over the winter. Now that it's growing season again, it's snapped in four separate places all with in 5 days. Now, I'm not 100% sure if it's weather related or if it was some sort of animal bitting through it...or if it was some sort of...

So I ran into a snag on my kegerator conversion. I went to take out the top freezer box and realized it has a hard plastic tube feeding into it. FFFFUUUUUoh shoot. Is there anyway to safely remove this unit or do I have to call a refrigerator repair man to remove it? I won’t have room for the...

Long story short, I finally got a job at a brewery (working part time at Hoppin Frog in Akron, Ohio, brewing beer, bottling it, and doing practically everythign else as well...god I love my job). The local news team came down and filmed us working. I'm so excited to be working for Fred! Check...

Ok, made my Apple Butter Cyser On Thursday, didn’t quite mix the ingredients well enough at the time now that I think about it. I go to really look at it today (added the Muscavado sugar today, forgot it on brew day… D’oH) and it seems there’s a definite separation of ingredients at the bottom...

Finally bit the bullet and did a meed. I settled with the famous Apple Butter Cyser recipe but modified it with even MORE fermentables just to make it my own. Here's the pics from brew day and beyond! Enjoy and feel free to comment! All the ingredients laid out for the Apple Butter Cyser...

Epic fail is epic.

Was browsing Bad Movies.org when I came acrost the movie Starcrash. There was a small sentance on it that caught my eye: "Where else can you watch a mascara-wearing David Hasselhoff fight stop motion robots with a lightsaber?" Had to click on the review. I started to read the review when I...

My friend gave me his amp (Line 6 Spider II HD head with the Spider II cab…4x12 Stereo speakers on a slant) for free (yaaa!!!!) but it comes with a problem. The head doesn’t work. While I’m great with fixing guitars, amps are out of my league. He said it was the power supply...

:ban: FINALLY! Finally am going the kegging route! Last night I picked up a free refrigerator from Fred down at Hoppin’ Frog Brewery while we were jamming. This morning I cleared out the area (while enjoying a Double IPA Homebrew…ten separate hops were used..big beer) that it’s...

So, here’s the low down. Got a nice big starter of fresh White Labs 830 yeast from my local brewery (drawn out of one of their fermentation tanks) and pitched it into my Doppelbock (OG 1.066) on Sunday (1/3/2010). I think about it and decided to throw a pound of DME into it yesterday...

Well, I'm getting a free, stand up refridgerator that'll hold four corny kegs. I have started the long task of reading how to convert these things. My question is what would be cheaper in the long run; A. Screw it and buy a conversion kit from a LHBS or online. B. Part it out piece by piece...

I know I know, search the forums. Well, I did (fed my brain until it hurt) so "Naaaaaaanah na nah na!!!" :mug: Brewing this Sunday (my first lager...a doppelbock, 1.077 SG) going to buy the yeast (White Labs) on Tuesday. For my starter should I: 1. Make a regular starter and add 2 vials of...

Now, theoretically, say one of my brewmaster friends of one of the brewery’s I visit really likes one of my beers in particular. Likes it so much that he thinks it will win awards. Theoretically, lets say that he wants to have me and him brew up that recipe using the companies large scale...

...so feel free to comment and jump on in on the thought trains...careful, the conductor's drunk. So, I've formulated my American Barleywine (maybe I'll call it Passow's Barely Wine) that I'm going to brew in about a little over a week. I upgraded it from 5.5 (my usual) to a 6.5 gallon batch...

I've had eniough homebrew to do a nice rant! Bottle bombds are bad! But regular bombs are worse. Bombs are bad unless it's a bomb filled with rabits. Weven then , it gets quite messy b/c the rabits go boom and then there's hair andf rabbit guts everywhere. Rabbit guts are like a story my...

So, I've been doing my research on this one (alot to do on the subject actually) and there's alot of different opinions on the subject so I thought I'd just go ahead and ask the questions I'm iffy on. My plan is to do a big American Barleywine, around 13%. Do to yeast tolerances is it best to...

My friends been treatening to do a virtical tasting of his Dark Lords for about 5 months now and tonight we got together at the local fine beer bar and did it. 2009, 2008, and 2007 were open and saired. Dark fruits, plum, coffee, coaco..............holy hell these were amazing. General concensis...