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I want to move over to the big boys and make a great wee heavy and after reading about the style I have come up with his and want to run it across you guys to see if it would stay in style. I also want to use honey instead of priming sugar to carb it. So here it is Twisted Kilt wee Heavy...

I ran across 3 glass and 1 plastic carboy at a garage sale today. They didn’t use them for brewing but they did store change in them, I have cleaned them and have them soaking with PBW. Should I also clean them with some vinegar just in case of the corrosion that is still in the carboys that I...

So, when I was brewing yesterday an emergency popped up and thank goodness I was at the end of the boil getting ready to start cooling it when I got a call and had to hurry up, so instead of using the wort chiller with an ice bath, I dump the equivalent of two gallons of ice in my wort. And...

In an attempt to add technology to a brewing process someone built a sensor rig that monitors bubbles and pressure during fermentation. What does this have to do with brewing great beer? I not sure, but he’s got some preliminary readings to spark your imagination. By the way I am not sure if...

I made a Imperial Stout but it isn’t going past 1.041 I used Apparent Attenuation = (101 – 41) / 106 x 100 and come up with 63% I use two packets of Nottingham ale yeast and been in the primary for ten days. i was thinking about putting in 1 packet of wine yeast. Any ideas?

This might be my last extract recipe before I AG. The question is i want to use my 8 gallon pot to make it, instead of using 2.5 gallons of water could i use 6.5 gallons of water to make my extract brew. Any advise would be grateful. thank in advance.

I made mead before but i never seen this before. it is a peach mead and i racked it a couple of days ago and now it has bubbles on top like it was soapy water. i think i racked it to early, but i let it fermet for 14 day and the gravity didnt fall any more. SG was 1.100 Fg is 1.001. any thoughts?

I was able to get a good amount of yeast from some guinness extra stout. Well I did the useal but i used corn suger instead of DME and after 5 day it still shows no activey. i also used yeast nurteint. Is there some thing wrong or are they just finshing yeast? I read the artcial about harvesting...

Ok i have been doing some reading and studing on different ways to be able carb bottle beer and i ran across something call GYLE it didnt really go into much detail it just gave me a formula. has any one tryed this before and if so how does it affect the taste and carbation of the beer?

well i was out geting my stuff ready to start a batch and my son was with me well he got into my cold box and took the airlock and stoper out of one of my batches with wouldnt of bothered me until i seen the gum wrappers from about 6 or 7 pieces of gum and about four floating which i got out. it...

I read the first 50 post on the "Man I love Apfelwein" post i understand tree top AJ is what most prefer but I was wanting to ask if Dark Brown suger have a major affect on taste and Does it improve with age or not really needed just as tasty? I just wondering i was going to make a batch next...

i did my home brew on sunday and last night when the yeast started going to work it blew my airlock out then i fixed that then an hour latermy lid went flying across the room i used the Wyeast German ale yeast any help would apprecated

I got a kit from Midwest and want to modify it a little bit to make it a little more stouter. the recipe calles for 6 lbs dark malt extract i added 6 lbs and it calles for 3.3 lbs but i was going to make it 5 lbs and leave every thing elses i got and extra pack of yeast to pitch it after the 2nd...

Has any one used this type of yeast before Burton Ale Yeast by white lab? Im useing it for this porter but dont know what is will finsh out at, Im thinking 1.012 but not sure. This is only 4th time brewing and tried many different yeast and just trying to find my fav yeast to use. Here is the...

I considering moveing up from extract to partal mash and more advanced stuff. How much of a differece in taste is there and how much am i looking at spending to make this upgrade?

I read an artical about some one makeing mead out of agave but i never got to finsh it and was wondering if any one else ever heard about this or even tried, if so how did it come out

i was told once to make a plan then run it by some one that know what there doing then fix it then try it well i want to run this plan around people that know i want to use a different yeast an Ale yeast in my mead here is the recipe that i want to use for some medium sweet mead 13 pds...

hello guys my name is Wes and i am new to home brewing and i would love to be able to pick some brains about recipes and stlyes of brewing mead. i have been reading some thing about it here but i would like to find just a simple mead recipe to start me off and then move from there to the more...