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I'm toying with the idea of making a pale ale based braggot, and am having difficulty deciding on a yeast. The recipe is below, it'll be OG 1.115, ending around 11-12%. Should I be using a beer yeast (WLP099) or a mead yeast? I've never made mead and am unfamiliar with the choices of mead...

I'm planning on making a Belgian Dubbel based on Brewsmith's recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f73/belgian-dubbel-21477/ I increased the caramunich and Special B per Brewsmith's recommendations by half a pound each. I'm also using a Trappist Ale yeast instead of a golden ale because I...

My friend made a Jasmine beer a while back and I wanted to re-create it. He just came back for the holidays from peace corps, and I was able to corner him and get some information on his brew and wanted to get some of your opinions on using this. He said he used a basic hefe kit and added 5.5...

This is my first attempt at brewing in my new apartment. It's a one bedroom with a relatively small kitchen. Luckily, I don't pay for gas or water, so I can boil water to my heart's content. The brew of the day was a brown ale, full-boil extract with steeping grains. 7 lbs Light DME 8 oz...

So, my last brew session, during the boil, I went to grab a homebrew. I wanted to try my creme ale, which had just passed it's three week mark. So I grabbed a bottle that I thought had a "C" on the cap. Popped it open and poured it out. It was a little darker than I was expecting, but it was...

I've noticed a trend in my last couple brews....the wort sample tastes really bitter. When I put together the recipe for my IIPA, I purposely limited the bittering hops because I don't like bitter very much, and the wort tasting had me a little scared because of how bitter it was. I tasted it...

I'm brewing an extract version of EdWort's Robust Porter tonight (7 lbs DME to replace 2-row). I got all the steeping grains yesterday, but was in a rush and didn't get them milled. I'm going to use the rolling pin/ziploc bag method and was wondering how fine i should be trying to get the...

I just had one of these last night. I don't know if it's new, I've never seen it before and I generally enjoy Magic Hat beers. My first thought was that it's the clearest beer I've ever seen, it looked like tinted glass. I don't have much of a liking for bitterness, and this was slightly more...

So, long story short, my buddy went into the peace corps last month, and I'm "borrowing" his brewing equipment while he's gone. With the brews I've done, I've bottled one 22oz that I intend to save and give him a sampling of my work while he was gone. He'll be back in two years. Has anyone...

I have a line on a couple free carboys from work. The person with them estimated that they're about 2.5 feet tall, maybe 20 gals. I will be checking them out during lunch and had a couple questions. a) I currently only use buckets, but 2.5 feet sounds about the right height for a 6.5 gal...

This is my first attempt at creating a recipe from scratch. I've tweaked recipes before, but for this one, I just glanced at a couple IPA recipes, then went on my own. Let me know what you think. I'm going for a basic IPA, somewhat on the strong side. All hops are pellets, although I would...

In looking over threads, I've repeatedly seen posters say something along the lines of 'it's very hard to get an unintentional infection'. To me, this implies that there are intentional infections. I know lambics employ wild yeasties, which are typically undesierable, but is there a reason or...

Hey All, I just stored my first batch for fermenting yesterday, it was a Brewer's Best Red Ale. The only obvious issue I had was some slight scorching in the boiling pot, but that just means it shall ne'er happen again. I've inherited all of my equipment from my college roommate who just...