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Hello all, First post in a long time. The Mrs. and I have purchased a house and so naturally my first thought was time for a kegerator. I’m looking to build a stand-up kegerator with 4 taps. I’m reasonably handy with tools but have a hard time visualising parts, builds etc. so...

Hello All, I'm about to embark on a very ambitious project. One of my friends has requested that I make the party favours for his wedding. Up Here in Alberta we're not allowed to serve homebrewed beer or wine for weddings so we settled on a bottle of homebrew for each guest to take home with...

I brewed up 3 batches of beer on Saturday. 1 was a Saison with #3711 French Saison, the OG was 1.042 and after only 5 days the gravity is down to 1.004 The next beer was a Belgian Dark Strong Ale with #1214 Abbey Ale with an OG of 1.088 and a FG of 1.012 The 3rd beer was a party-gyle...

Generally I like to bottle my cider in clear bottles for 2 reasons: 1. I have made multiple flavors and its easy to distinguish apple cider from cranberry from blueberry from hard limeade. 2. Its the best use I've found for the large amount of clear beer bottles I've accumulated from friends...

I'm been experimenting with a few different flavored ciders recently namely Cranberry, Cranberry-Pomegranite and Blueberry. My normal recipe for 6 gallons is 1.5 gallons Cranberry (or other) Juice 2.5 lbs Dextrose Apple Juice to fill Champagne Yeast OG of 1.066 FG of .998 I then...

I really enjoy the "Blue Moon/Keiths White/Sleeman White" flavor on hot summer days and was thinking that if I jacked up the intensity of the recipe it would be delicious during winter evenings when it's cold and bolder flavors are generally desired. I searched and found that Sam Adams...

I'm getting ready to brew another IPA and want to try a different hop combination. My last IPA was a "hop burst" with 1 oz hop additions every 5 minutes from 25-0 minutes with an even mix of Williamette-Cascade-Northern Brewer and a 2 oz dryhop. Looking to do the same hop addition schedule but...

I just got my 3711 Saison yeast from the store and I'm starting to plan a Saison for summer (I'm going with the "if you brew it summer will come" theory as its -22 and snowing right now). Anyways I have tried only 2 homebrewed saisons so I have a ton of questions that hopefully I can get some...

Despite owning “Designing Great Beers” and “Brewing Classic Styles” I have come to realize that almost all of the recipes I now make are partially or fully obtained from hbt. I also really like the feel of having an actual book because you can do a lot of things with it that you can’t with a...

I just finished up some freeze distillation and was wondering if anyone had a good way to estimate the finished ABV of a freeze distilled drink. I started with a hard limeade cooler I made that was 12% and then freeze concentrated it twice and ended up with around 1/4 the original volume...

I had an epic brewday today where I finished 2-6 gallon batches and 1-5 gallon batch in 6 hours with only 1 propare burner and my stove. The grain bill was: 22lbs of Maris Otter .5 lbs of Chocolate Malt The original plan was a single parti-gyle with a Scottish Wee Heavy (1.070 OG) and a...

Here's a fun beer quiz I found when I was bored on the internet the otherday you have to match 49 different beers with the state they are brewed in. http://www.sporcle.com/games/thunderroad/fiftybeersfiftystates Good luck!

So I opened up BeerSmith today to work on a recipe and had a weird problem. In the "Ingredients" box I don't see anything its just a blank white box. Below it has still calculated the OG, FG Color Bitterness etc. etc. It seems like it has all the information but for whatever reason isn't showing...

I made a batch of Apfelwein a little while ago. The recipe was the standard Apfelwein recipe of Ed's with Apple Juice, Sugar and Champagne Yeast to an OG of 1068. I let it ferment down to 1017 and bottled and then I used Papper's pasteurization technique to stop fermentation when it read 1014...

Well my story starts the same as most of these threads I've been brewing awhile and SWMBO doesn't like any of my beer but happens to love Lindman's Framboise which runs about $7/bottle in my neck of the woods so hoping to brew some to appease her and save some cash. The Ingredients: 4 lbs...

I need some help differentiating between the smaller keg options out there. Sadly a corney or similar setup is not possible but I would like to acquire a few kegs in the 5-10L range which I think would be good to fill for parties and then be able to chill in the fridge and take and finish in one...

Can someone breakdown the major differences between the 3 I know Maris Otter is English Golden Promise is Scottish 2-row is American (my case Canadian) I've brewed all grain with exclusively 2-row up until now but have an English Brown and Scottish Wee Heavy planned soon. Space and Costs...

I've had Innis & Gunn a few times and I quite enjoy it sadly it's the one beer I can't get a clone recipe. I've found a lot of forum posts here and elsewhere requesting a recipe and some discussion but no posts indicating someone actually brewed said recipes or comments about them. This is...

After reading up on the pros and cons I've decided to take the plunge and buy a refractometer. What I've read says go to ebay and get a decent one for under $30 so I'm looking at this one...

I know it seems crazy to be thinking about Christmas but as on today it's only 5 months away. Since I started brewing last Christmas I thought this year I would do up some cool 12-packs for family and friends. I was thinking of doing 4 different brews over the coming months and bottling in...