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A good friend of mine has been drinking "homebrew" as of late and has been telling me how good it is. I use homebrew lightly since he actually orders it from a brew your own place and all he does is add the yeast and seal the bottles. Anyway he was over the other day and after sampling his...

I am planning on ordering my first rhizomes this year. I have been growing veggies for years and with my brewing hobbie I thought it would be an interesting addition to my garden. By-laws in my city will not allow me to erect a structure over 8' in my yard. Now my thought is this. I have an...

I bottled my first wheat beer about a week ago and it seems to be taking a really long time to carb up. Does wheat beer usually take longer to carb? I am not worried I am just going to let it sit until it's ready. I'm just wondering.

My BIL and I were sitting around our wives' mother place over Christmas enjoying the season (for lack of a better word). He is the one that got me into home brewing so we discuss beer more than the average guys. Mom in law asks if we are thirsty and would like a drink. Then passes us a Coors...

So I have located a supplier for hops next spring. I asked specifically if they supplied rhizomes and their response has me confused/worried. They called them sprouted roots. What is your feeling? Are these rhizomes or something else?

I was making a Cooper's English bitter kit last night. I had planned on following the directions with the kit and not messing with it much. Just wanted an easy no fuss batch to keep the pipeline flowing. So the directions called for the addition of the kit and 500g of light DME. I added...

The other I heard about a LHBS near where I work that is supposed to be pretty good. The near my house has good prices and decent stock but doesn't stock grains and a few other things. So I thought I would run over at lunch to check them out. I turn into the parking lot and to my amazment...

I let my wife cheat last night. I let her open a small bottle of my first cider after only a week of conditioning. It hasn't even fully cleared yet. I warned her that it would probably taste a little funny still but poured a couple of pints anyway. Well it tasted just the way I was hoping...

The cider I started a couple of weeks ago has finished fermenting now and I have been cold crashing for a couple of days. It looks pretty clear now. Another day or so should do the trick. But I would like to backsweeten a little. I do not have a keg system nor do I have enough room in the...

I had to dump 5 gallons of cider last week because I bought the wrong cider and it wouldn't ferment. Not being the type to give up I bought 5 more gallons of the correct preservative free cider and it has been fermenting up a storm since. I want to make a sweet cider but have been doing...

My very first attempt at cider and I had to dump it last night. I started over a month ago but didn't pay close enough attention to the label when I purchased my juice. It contain just enough sorbate to stop the fermentation. I tried using enough yeast to brew 15 batches of beer. I added...

The cider I started a month ago keeps bubbling through the air lock (really slowly) but the last time I checked the gravity to see where we were at (I want to cold crash at 1010) there doesn't seem to be any change in the gravity. Is it possible that it is not fermentiting but still showing...

Here's the thing. I have been using the pre hopped kits as my base and LME instead of dextrose for my last 4 or 5 batches. Sometimes I dry hop and sometimes I don't depending on the style and the aroma that is already present. The brews are coming out nice and clean each one better that the...

So I don't know if this is even possible but if anyone knows it's yous guys. (Yah I said yous) I brewed a stout the about a week ago using the following 1 can Cooper's Stout 3/4 Litre of Dark LME 3/4 Litre of Amber LME 1 pound (Aprox) of Dextrose I am going to rack it over to the...

Just thought I would warn you guys. I went out and purchased (gasp) a few locally brewed beverages that had a halloween theme for the weekend. For the most part they were pretty good. With one exception. Trafalger brewing's Malted Corpse. Okay I like a malty beer once in a while. You...

Thursday (3 days ago) I started my first non kit cider. To 12 litres of apple cider and about a litre of high malt glucose I pitched 1.5 oz of ale yeast. Not sure of the exact strain. I have kept the brewing temperature at 21 celcius since and as of last night there had been no real drop in...

So I got this crazy idea about 2 weeks ago that I was going to make proper cider from apple juice rather than from a kit. I went out and after much searching found some really nice pasteurized cider that contained no preservatives. I want to know what you guys think about this "recipe" 12...

Sorry for what is probably a stupid noob question but I saw a drum of high malt glucose mixed in with all the other malts at my LHBS today and I was wondering what the heck it was used for? What characteristis would it develop in my beers?

I name all my beers. The name must include some about Liverpool England or inlcude something about a frog. This batch should be deal with frogs (or toads). I just brewed an IPA but for the life of me can not come up with anything.