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So, I haven't been able to brew for a year or so, and now we're gearing up to renovate the basement, and I need space cleared. So, I have about 9 cases of empty 12 oz bottles to dispose of. All bottles are rinsed out and clean (albeit pretty dusty) and about half have had the labels soaked off...

Ok, so this isn't my first rodeo, but I'm not an old hand. This is a new problem for me, never happenned before. I brewed 3 batches of beer on the same yeast, dropping new wort on top of the lees. I started with a mild red lager, then a Pilsner, then an Imperial Pilsner. Each beer...

Well, I had a couple brews go kerFLOOie on me last winter/spring and I got a bit gun shy, but I got my nerve up and jumped back in. I brewed a Pale Ale last week and I've got a Nut Brown about to go on the lees as we speak. I missed it. I forgot how wonderful the house smells when you brew...

I read this online this morning--kinda scared me a little. http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100411/us_time/08599197870500 I dunno, that just don't seem right. And isn't 'freeze-distillation' kinda illegal?

I have no idea how to begin searching for an answer to this one, so sorry if I'm clogging the lines... I sprung for some hefe yeast a few weks ago. As the first, standard batch was winding up it's stay in primary, I decided to brew a dunkel and drop it on the yeastcake (lees?) and make 2...

So, I bought a 750 of beer last weekend and drank it last night. It was quite sweet and pretty big, over 10% ABV. Thinking it might be a useful yeast, I saved a bit of the beer in the bottle. Since it is a bottle conditioned brew, I am guessing that the yeast is pretty tough (surviving at the...

I tried the ol' search function, but ther's just too much random data to narrow it down to a reasonable framework. Anywho, I don't have the refrigeration to make a proper lager, nor am I likely to get it anytime soon. So, with the onset of winter, I was considering doing the ferments in the...

Ok, so in the front of my little beer notebook, I've scribbled down all the little conversions I've encountered--eg, "for bottling, use x amount of DME per gallon, or y amount of corn sugar...", etc, etc, etc. Anyway, I'm just about to dry-hop my latest IPA (3 gallon batch) and I discover...

I brewed yesterday, 5 gallons of English pale ale from a BB kit. Pitched it onto the cake from the IPA I racked yesterday. It was bubbling furiously within an hour...(25 hours later)... Now, it's stone silent. I shook it up, just to be safe, but could it have done that much...

It's 11:00 am, Monday. My boil is just past the half-way mark. I've already moved the previous batch to secondary. I plan on dumping some trub from the IPA in this batch instead of using the dried yeast that came with the kit (it's pool beer, I'm trying to bring up the philistines a bit), as...

So, I brewed a Belgian style wheat a few months ago...20 days in primary (a little long, I suspect), 6 weeks in secondary, two months in bottle. I bottled 3 gallons of brew in 750 ml bottles with @ 12 oz beet sugar, dissolved and boiled for 10 minutes. Opened the first one last weekend at a...

So, somehow, I screwed up a calculation somewhere and came up three bottles short when I bottled my last batch. So, I just pumped the leftovers into a glass and started drinking. It had been in primary for a week and secondary a month. Obviously, stone flat, but reasonably tasty nonetheless...

What would have to happen to get a database for good brewpubs from the brotherhood here? Not so much threads of discussion, but something like a listing, by city, of good brewpubs and/or places to get beer. I'm headed to NOLA next weekend and was going to do some research, and started here...

Well, I'm cleaning house, unloading some light/pilsen stlye LME and a pile of scraps of hop pellets. I'm not looking for any particular result, but I was wondering about the hop schedule. I have @ 1/4 oz of Saaz and a little more of Tettnang that I was thinking of using for bittering, 1/4 oz...

Every batch I've bottled goes into a case, and then I put the case in a big trash bag for a while in case of emergency. Is there any sort of "time lapse rule of thumb" after which the lilelihood of a bomb is pretty long? They just look so sad in their little black bags...

So I tried the search engine and found precious little. Anyway, I brought up some bottles today, and decided that since they'd been sitting around the basement for a while, I'd throw 'em throught the dishwasher for a good rinse before I sanitize. Halfway through the cycle I find myself...

I can feel little ribs on the bottom of my brewpot as I stir, I assume that it's little bitsof the LME that carmelized as I was stirring it into the wort. My water was @ 160 degrees at that point, but the burner was on high, so I guess it's highly likely. Note to self: Pull pot off burner to...

My bro-in-law saved me a case of Harp bottles for my homebrew. I think it was a one-night stand, but I digress. Anyway, I scrubbed those bears down and stored 'em away. I got 'em out tonight for bottling, and just out of curiousity, tried to slap a cap on one. Well, sheeeee-hit, the thing...

Alright, I know it's generally frowned upon around here, but I've got a pound leftover from my Mr. Beer days, and I was wondering if it'd be better as bottling sugar OR should I just dump it into my next "Big Beer"? If I throw it into something, does it need to run the full boil, or can I just...

...or something like that. I was given a can of hopped extract that was for making a rice-d beer. Since I can't really see much value in that, I was thinking of alternate uses for it. I have been considering a ginger beer for a few weeks and weighing my options, and this looks like it might...