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I have been brewing for a good amount of time, but have never had an infection. I reckon my time has come. Is this indeed an infected beer?

Hey all, I have a couple hops laying around and want to make a nice APA that will showcase the carmel flavors from the malts but have a nice hop back to it. I am looking at: 8# Uk Pale Malt 1# Caramalt .5# Crystal I have a combination of these hops to go with it: Czech Saaz Fuggles...

Need some help with my grains. I just found out that the LHBS does not mill your grains for you here in Christchurch.. I do not have the resources right now to buy one so I thought I would do it the old fashion way.. not working out that well.. If anyone has a mill or know where I can go to get...

Need some help with my grains. I just found out that the LHBS does not mill your grains for you here in Christchurch.. I do not have the resources right now to buy one so I thought I would do it the old fashion way.. not working out that well.. If anyone has a mill or know where I can go to get...

Having difficulty finding out if these oats will work out for a stout recipe. Any insight? http://www.harraways.co.nz/html_products/breakfast/wholegrain_1kg.html cheers

Hey All, I am finally off hiatus of brewing and can start up again! Just moved to New Zealand and found a really good scene here but have never heard of this method in this brew recipe. It says to steep grains in the oven for 35mins.. has anyone ever done this and how do you go about doing...

So we have a pot now to make some beer here in Germany. I have made beer about 9 times in the USA but I am having some more difficulties here in Germany. I made one recipe but it is coming out to be pretty expensive.. I was wondering if someone could help me dumb down this beer to make it a...

Alright so I am trying to teach my girlfriends father how to brew here in Deutschland. I consider it a treaty of international beer relations, proudly enough he likes IPA's unlike most German's that have the taste for Pils or Weiss beer. My problem is that I can not find a store that has your...

I am thinkin of keeping this the same or breaking up the Galena .5 oz 60 min .5 oz 45 mins What does everyone think? Thanks getting ready to brew tonight:mug: 73% 6 lb Extra Light Dry Extract 12% 1 lb American Two-row Pale 9% 0 12 oz Crystal 40L 6% 0 8 oz American...

I thought I would post here to get a wide range of help and opinions. This is what I have so far. I am looking for a smooth slighty carmel flavored pale ale. This is what I have come up with : 6 lb Dry light malt 1 lb Crystal 40L 1/2 lb Dextrin Malt Hops not a clue yet with Bittering...

I started in another forum and I know getting responses here are always helpful and insightful. So I thought I would post it here also. Thanks! https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/i-want-make-recipe-130144/

What is the best way to go about this. I have a list of malts, grains, hops, and yeast I would like to use but proportions I am not sure about. Any program I can toy with and try to find good caculations? Would love to get started on it! cheers Gary

Title says it all:) I had a post on here about a month ago.. it was about my grommet falling into my fermentating beer and I am happy to say the beer looks great and is conditioning! The one issue was because I did not use a blow off I lost a little more beer than i wished to. We all learn...

So my airlock was way bubbling over and i went to take it out and in the process my airlock rubber ring stopper pulled itself into the bucket where my Jacksnap IPA is in its first day of fermenting.. I could not find the ring as i searched for a second with a sanitized spoon.. So i got two...

So i was plagued with oxidation last batch and now i am paranoid.. does this look like to much bubbles at the top of the bottle? http://beer18.shutterfly.com/ thanks! Gary

Is this ok to do the label remover?

So i cracked open a couple of my dunkelweizens the other night and had very mixed results.. The nose on the beer had great scents of bubble gum and bananas so perfect not over the top just the right amount but.. the taste had a very weird taste to it. It had a paper type taste to it.. if any...

Should i leave them in my wort after i pitch the yeast or try to strain out the plug remains... thanks!

so i am in the desert.. and we have awful water from the tap.. which water would someone recommend to use from the grocery store... Is there one that is better than the other? thanks Gary

So I am making my 1st beer away from my LHBS and it calls for 6.0 lbs of liquid wheat extract the guy there said they didn't have any and gave me 6 lbs of dry malt wheat extract.. along with that was a 1 lb of dry light extract.. he told me i wouldn't need that due to the 6lbs of the dry.. so...