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Holy hell....I've never used WL German wheat yeast 333 before, and man was I surprised when I walked into the house yesterday. The entire back of the house smelled like rotten eggs/sulfur! That is to say, that's what it smelled like to me anyway. My friends I had over on the other hand found...

Ok, so after finding out how much fun it was to build a kegerator, and how easy it was, I have decided to build another one. Here's the thing. It must be pimp'n. Although I have a few ideas of what to do, I wanted to start a post to get everyone's input and ideas. Keep in mind I am a student...

I know I read about this somewhere but I can't remember what effects or differences are imparted into the beer if you boil 45 min, 60 min, or even 90 min. assuming your hop additions are added for the requisite times (ex: 1st @ 60min, 2nd @ 15min etc.) Can someone refresh my memory?

I've read countless blogs about this subject and I just can't seem to wrap my head around it. Why go through all the trouble to culture yeast and save it for later? Granted, I always make a starter but personally I am always brewing something completely different from batch to batch and hardly...

So my roommate is quite the stoner and asked if I could make hime some chronic beer. He said he'd pay for it but i don't know if it's even possible. Has anyone heard of this or done this themselves? My own assumptions are that one would have to substitute hops with alot of chronic to...

Because summer is coming along here real quick I wanted to brew something refreshing, really hopy, and yet with caramel and honey undertones. So hear is what I came up with. I'm using american ale yeast cuz that's what i have in inventory, but I think a british might finish the beer better...

I brewed up a batch of imperial hellfire yesterday. All went well and it seems like it will turn out great. Smelled so good! I took a gravity reading and was below my mark. OG= 1.062. I couln't figure out why I was off and then it hit me. I FORGOT TO ADD THE HONEY! Now I'm wondering what to do...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've come across an unexpected dilemma. I drink alot of beer, at least 2-5 a day. Hardly ever get drunk though. The question is to drink? Or not to drink? I only have so many bottles at any given time that are ready to drink. I constanlty find myself...

I did my first AG brew the other day. I mashed in my 7.5 gal kettle using a giant fine mesh bag. I had trouble kepping the temps controlled for a 2 step mash though. I was able to keep the temp @ 130 for thirty min. but when I tried to bump the heat up to 152 it jumped to 180+ in just a couple...

Here's the deal. A New Castle Clone I brewed jan 11 has proven itself to be an odd beer time and time again. Most recently is the strong almost overpowering yeast flavor. It spent a 9 days in primary, 8 days in secondary, and has been conditioning in bottles for almost 3 weeks now. I'm very...

I came upon an imperial ipa recipe from beertools.com it calls for 11lbs american 2-row, 3 lbs dark DME, 1 oz Chinook for 60 min. and 1 oz collumbus and 1 lb cane sugar. I'm subing bullion for the collumbus to try and keep the hops from being too overwhelming. Anyone think this is a good idea/...

just finished checking up on my New Castle clone. I'ts been in primary for 5 days now . It took a while to get the FG down from 1.078 to its current 1.016. Still don't know how i had such a high OG, but who cares my beer packs a punch. Anyway, it's still a little too sweet. I was reading a...

I just finished racking my new castle clone to the primary and took a hydro reading. 1.078! Whats up with that? it should be in the 1.048-1.051 range. The temp is just as it should be so what would cause it to be so high and what effect will this have on the final product? The only thing i can...