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What dunkelweizen recipe do you use? I love that style of beer, I tried the Northern Brewer Recipe Kit but I was incredibly disappointed with it. I would be happy to brew this style again if I could find a better recipe.

My first stout was brewed a few days prior to me going out of town for a week. I used a 3/8" blow off tube that got clogged the night before I left and I was woken up to the sound of a gunshot. I checked my brew-closet and there was beer splattered on the ceiling and krausen foaming out the...

Each to his own. Though I enjoy the full-gambit of beers, everything from IPAs to fruity beers. They all have their place and I can appreciate them for what makes them unique.

I am just trying to add the vanilla flavor to a sweet stout recipe kit from Northern Brewer. It is more or less a yummy experiment.

I am making a Vanilla Milk Stout and I need to use some vanilla beans. I found a store nearby that sells Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla beans. Are these a good option to use? Or is there a particular type of vanilla bean that should be used instead?

28,279.5 + 5gal Vanilla Milk Stout, + 5gal Blueberry Beer, + 5gal Cherry Pale Ale, + 5gal Afpelwein + 5gal Bourbon Porter = 28,304.5 (sorry, haven't updated this post in a few months)

Bottled a Blueberry Ale on Christmas day. It will be ready to drink on my birthday!

Octang - When I was in high school I liked cars and I needed an internet handle... so I thought "Octane" would be a great handle... however I sucked at spelling and "Octang" was born.... Later when I realized my mistake I still kept using it because it was unique and I didn't have to worry...

I have learned that I enjoy heavy beers, particularly stouts, since I began brewing my own beer. Recently I have really begun exploring the various variety of stouts and I love to compare my creations to commercial varieties. What have you learn about beer, or your appreciation/view of it...

My beer is now ready to drink today: It is very "OK". Then again, I am not a huge pumpkin beer fan... but still, I've had a few other pumpkin beers, and I was hoping for something a little different. If I were to tweak this recipe, more spices would be added.

Surely We Must Be Obnoxious

I'm showing a friend how to brew in 1 1/2 weeks. I am driving down to visit him and we are making a whole weekend out of it!

Thanks guys. I use Inkscape. Corvax, I see what you're saying and it makes sense.

I would love your critiques and other comments! "Adam's Apple" is a batch of Apwelwein that I am brewing for my friends Adam and Ashley to celebrate Ashlee's pregnancy. I'm going to give it to them after she gives birth. I thought the name was appropriate.

I'm a little torn. Part of me is happy to see BMC push some different styles of beer... hopefully expanding the market for "good" beers. Yet I am also sad because I don't like seeing BMC encroaching on the craft market.

Yeah, I want to spend a lot of time exercising just to replace the calories I just killed myself burning?! I'm all for drinking beer, but I have no interest in replacing calories I burned exercising. If I wanted to do that, I just would cut out the middleman and not exercise! Edit: Revy, that...

I have to put a halt on brewing for a bit. I've been collecting unemployment for a while now, and I have finally run out of unemployment checks. I can file for a benefits extension but it will take a few weeks for it to process and I am a single guy who lives alone, so other than my part...

I just listened to the voicemail again and I believe you are correct, it does sound like she said "variegated".

The place where he got the hops called me back about my inquiry of the hops variety and left me a voicemail stating: "The hops is a straight geniousen(?) species with no cultivar. If it is arrogated(irrigated?) it is an invasive Japanese hops." I don't understand gardening speak, so none of...

That is a sample of some of the hops I received. Still have no clue what kind they are.