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Gruits are difficult Herbs are a different beast than hops. Some 1 oz is really bitter some 1oz is nothing There are quite a few charts online (google gruit herbs) and they will give suggestions as far as how to use and how much. Then you need to balance those flavors with the malt...

If the ATF cared THAT much they would have to prove that you were over the 100 gallons/person brewed in that year. You could always make the argument that some was brewed last year and is conditioning. It is there burden to prove that wrong not yours to prove it right. Plus on top of that if...

Look at an ofest vs winter type beer. Not as heavy nit as malty not as spiced. But moving that way. Though I don't know of any spring beers as far as style I like to make something that will emulate summer but in the same way ofests are to winter beers . So I make something lighter in taste...

The band piss me off for the reason they are bein banned Here's a quote from my local news "its like consuming 4 beers and several cups of coffee - all in one can" What about a half pint of coffee infused vodka or brandy. Isn't that like chugging multiple beers and coffee yet noine seems to...

Rock salt helps tremendously. Also starting with a water/ice combo full contact with the brew pot. Adding rock salt lowers the freezing temp. And is what's used when making homemade ice-cream to get temps down low enough

A smaller volume in a larger vessel would be the ONLY sane way to attempt a fire boiling as shown with the burnt mead picks. You can control how high it is off the fire but really that is just a waste of time I'd do a rather big 2.5 gallon batch in a 10 gallon pot and let it sit for a year...

Speights is a REAL new Zealand beer (south island) and because it's real nz beer they do not export it...at all.ever hear how wine in Australia is 10000% better than Aussie wine available in the states... Nz beer is the same

Utopia clone! Just as much alcohol and no johnny law...you or could just buy a bottle and drink it and buy one when your kid turns 19 :)

Now with the hard candy idea (I'm thinking peppermint sticks for a Christmas brown) Could you look at the sugar content on the packaging and if it's 1 stick has this much sugar it would be very safe to assume that almost all of that sugar is fermentable no?

Golden anniversary beer is dirt cheap AND far better than bmc in my opinion

You can try to recycle it through the chiller with an ice bath (to recool) and a pump to recycle it back through. I don't but just a thought. Other than watering lawn the really only other uses would be cleaning or general water use (bathing...kinda sponge bath) since you don't want to consume...

You do need to pressure can it! The boiling method does not work as far as fighting botulism! And there isn't nearly enough acidity in wort to ward off that either. There was a thread "canning wort" or something like that. Yopper went into detail why it needs to be pressure can Ed and not just...

Ok cans and bag in a box wine is considered better for the earth. I box of wine (the fancy ones not the crappy ones) costs the same to ship as 1 bottle of wine: HOWEVER the box of wine holds aprox 3 or 4 bottles of wine (volume wise) they are shipping a bladder and a little bit of cardboard and...

Red stripe bottles are sexy. I'd love to be able put some home brew in them....now I just need to find someone who will drink it.

I think it's concentration. So let's make it simple let's say you have homebrew and there are 10 parts of methanol. If it was distiller there would still be that 10 parts however it's no longer in that large volume but rather condensed into about 1/10th (or whatever the condensing rate is) of...

Don't forget hops....you probably used the same amount of hops in your 5 gallon batch as bmc uses in on of their huge multibarrel batches :). Jk.....well kinda

There is what is called conditioned and non conditioned holds. Conditioned is heated for certain things such as animals or other things that obviously can't be left to the falling temp. Now since people have brought pets on flights there is this misnomer that all luggage bays are heated...and...

Ok I don't know Bout japan but bringing FRUIT into Europe from th USA (or other countries) is illegal! and it is the same from Europe to USA. Now yeast is different and it is japan...but last I checked japan had stricker import laws than USA or Europe.' Will they catch you? Who knows? Is it...

But you only did a 3 gallon batch not a 5 gallon batch...all is not as grim as it appears. Also if you were looking for a lower og why didn't you just water down to your target og? (sort of like an extract brew) then you wouldn't have under pitched AND you'd have a little more beer for your...

Well this was the second time I bought beer there prices are above average but the are right on my route to go many places. They are much more of a wine store but you would think If they are trying to tailor to those with taste buds for anything than bmc then they wouldn't sell outdated beer. I...