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My last batch was my own try at a Dunkelweizen. I took EdWort's bavarian recipe that I've made several times before, and like - and added just the darker grains found in 2-3 dunkels. 7 lbs German Wheat 4 lbs German Pils .35 lbs Special B .35 Crystal 40L .125 Carafa special...

As a side-question from all the usual arguments and discussion regarding macro vs micro brew, the big ones buying up the smaller breweries... Would you buy and drink a richer, medium hopped ale with a little malt backbone to it, if it came from the big guys? I mean like a 2-hearted, or...

HLN just showed a quickie-mart type store's security video where the "elleged bad guy" beaks in - and only steals an 18-pack OF BUSCH-LIGHT! :confused: Now SOME people... you just... can't... reach...! Remember that when sharing your homebrew with non-beer aficionados.

I'm drinking my DFH60 clone now and I don't really sense quite as much hop aroma as I thought I would. I used a pre-boiled nylon leg and pellet hops for 7 days of dry hopping. I don't have the real thing to compare it to presently. Would whole hops freely dry-hopping turn out better than...

My Safeway has a large display set-up for St. Patricks day. It looks like the distributer came in a made what looks almost like a hayride wagon sitting on about 12 Guinness kegs and stacked with cases of Guinness. All I could think about it was: I'd like to have two of those kegs nobody is...

I think I have a solution to stuck sparges in my braided hose MLT... I should be able to insert an open-loop (compression) spring inside the braid to keep it round. I can't find anything suitable at home stores. Grainger has stainless steel springs you can order, a 5 pack, 3/8" x .022 open...

I recently made a batch of Cream of three crops ale. The recipe thread said use a cup or so of sugar to "dry it out a bit." Well, silly me, I used about 3 cups of table sugar for a 5gal batch. That shot ABV to nearly 8% but left the beer with a noticable alcohol twang (Is that the dreaded...

I'm almost done brewing an english mild. I overshot OG a little so I thought I would get a few more ticks of ABV out of it. Recipe gave a target OG of 1.03* and mine was 1.040. Now this might be my problem, I didn't have any dry extract, and made a starter with corn sugar (I know bad idea)...

I haven't made an IC yet, so I had a tricky thought... and just took my 10g boil pot outside and stuck it on the first step of the swimming pool, and went for a walk with the wife and dog. It was ready for pitching when we got back!:mug:

Man I have sea-monkeys and wort snot all flying around in it post boil. I knew it would be ugly from the recipe thread pics, but DAAANNGG! Should I pour it through a coffee filter when I fill the fermenter? Will all that crap fall out and become part of the trub? eeeewww wwww *shudder...

Do bars still get their bottled beer in those hard cardboard cases with the reinforced bomb-bay-doors on top? Back when I was in college those harder cardboard cases were dormroom packing gold. They were awesome for storing amd moving. I need something like that for bottle storage, and...

I just paid 59$ for a "40qt" aluminum pot with a really nice steamer basket and lid from Sportsmans Warehouse. I get it home, rip the label off and decide to mark it on the inside, using my trusty Crafsman screwdriver as an awl, 5, 6, and 6.5 gal lines using my best screwdriver penmenship...

I made EdWort's Bavarian Hefe as my first all-grain. Fermentation was pretty violent. It's in a bucket and it sounded like there was a scuba diver in there! It has been 7days, and has not had any bubbles for days. I'm in Phoenix, so it fermented at house temps around 66-70. OG was 1.060, I...

I was searching Target for water coolers to use as a Mash Tun, and this thing popped up. It's a Black and Decker bottom loading 5gal water-cooler tower. I wonder if you could just stick a completed carboy under it...

Well... a lot more work than I thought. I went for a boil-in-the-bag version of EdWort's Bee Cave Bavarian Hefeweisen My first blown assumption: My fancy oven will not accept 153 as a bake temp setting. I had planned on parking the mash in there. I had to use two boil pots, while the first...

I've read around and used search but didn't find what I'm wanting to know. I'd like to make a good cream stout, on the darker side, with a rich mouth feel, chocolate and caramel character, maybe honey as an ingedient and no bitterness on the end. To try and describe my preferred level of...