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Our homebrew club, Brandon, FL Bootleggers, has a small group of brewers who meet monthly to judge one another’s beers (we do complete BJCP score sheets and we’re pretty careful about it) in an effort to improve both our evaluation skills and our beers. Each of us has chosen a particular style...

The Brazilian Pepper, schinus terebinthifolius, is a devastatingly destructive exotic invasive shrub/small tree familiar to all in central and south Florida. Hated by environmentalists, admired by the unschooled, and treasured by beekeepers as one of the few plants in Florida that reliably...

Just received this from a friend's attic. He quit brewing in 1994. Complete brewer's best starter kit with 5 gallon glass carboy, bucket and bottling bucket, red baron capper, hydrometer, floating thermometer, funnel, unopened OneStep, glucose, bottle caps, bottles, muslin bags, airlock, et cet...

Thursday night I had a delicious APA that I had bottled 9 days earlier. By Friday night, I opened another and it showed that this beer has fallen prey to the mysterious off flavor/contamination that has been afflicting my hoppy beers for some time. I think I've tracked it down: Here's what...

Post op instructions for the cataract surgery I had this morning say no alcohol. I want a beer. I did some googling and didn't find any substantial reason other than that it's not wise after any surgery because alcohol suppresses the immune system and, secondarily, that having a drink or two...

After two years and about 40 all-grain batches I'm satisfied with my progress with one glaring exception. Hoppy beers. My hoppy beers taste rough from almost all perspectives. The bittering is coarse. The aromas and flavors are muddy, grassy and harsh. A recipe won't help because these...

I'm looking for a BJCP certified beer judge who would be willing to visit our Brandon, Fl Bootleggers Homebrew Club Meeting. Please contact me if you would be interested or willing to help a bunch of home brewers along the right path!

I wonder if anyone else has come across this article in the Journal of Industrial Brewing, Volume 11, Number 3, 2005: "Effects of Mashing Parameters on Mash β-Glucan, FAN and Soluble Extract Levels". The authors conclude, among other things, that crush has NO effect on extract yield so long...

So, with four full fermentors ready for bottling, I go over my handlebars at 18mph and break my wrist. Dad's visiting, so I enlist his support. He's a bit of a klutz, and when we get to the point where we have 86 bottles on the counter with caps on ready to be crimped, I'm nervous. Starts out...

BYO Mag featured some interesting recipes this month. I want to do the Surly Bitter Brewer and the 21st Amendment Bitter American clones. They both look like very flavorful, hoppy beers in the 4%-5% range. My sweet spot. The Surly uses Fawcett Optic and Canadian Malting pale ale as base malts...

I'm bottling my witbier in champagne bottles today. We love the effervescence of a more highly carbed wit, but I've never bottled in anything but 12's and 22's so I don't have a feel for the effects of higher volumes of carbing. I'm thinking of going to somewhere between 3.75 and 4.25 volumes...

Wednesday, February 15, 7:00 pm at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon, FL. Brandon Bootleggers Homebrew Club. As always, visitors and the curious are welcome! There are always plenty of samples, and we'd love it if you bring some of your own to share. We're going to be talking a bit about...

Brandon, FL Bootleggers Home Brew Club Meeting, January 18 at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon. Information on the Best Florida Beer Homebrew Championships, Coordination of our participation at Cigar City Brewing's Hunahpu's Release Party and more. Bring a brew and share or just come enjoy...

Brandon, FL Bootleggers Home Brew Club Meeting, December 21 at O'Brien's Irish Pub in Brandon. Program: Starters and Stirplates Bring your best brew and share or bring your worst and get feedback as to what went wrong. Very friendly club, public and visitors welcome.

Everyone Welcome. Brandon, Florida Bootleggers Home Brew Club Meeting, O'Brien's Irish Pub, Brandon, 7 pm, Wednesday, November 16. This is a smaller, young club with a strong push for new members. No RSVP, no membership necessary. Just show up!

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Until now I've been buying my grain bills crushed and bagged. Recently, I've had occasion to observe that my LHBS is substituting grains that they think are "interchangeable", and not bothering to tell me, because, in their opinion, the substitutions were "interchangeable". The most recent was...

LHBS doesn't have the Victory called for in my rye pale ale recipe. I'm planning on subbing Biscuit. "How to Brew" says they're very similar, though Victory has a bit more of a "nutty" flavor, and it imparts orange highlights versus the deep amber of biscuit. My question is this: does anyone...

My first mead is in the fermenter, made with 17 pounds of my own backyard honey. I've been beer brewing for about nine months, beekeeping for about four. Looking forward to learning about mead. I've printed the Sticky FAQ and read and reread the Schramm book. I intend to brew up a new batch or...

Recipe: Amarillo Pale Ale Briess 2-Row Pale 9# 8oz Briess 2-Row Car 20L 1# 0oz Warrior 1 oz @ 60 Amarillo 2 oz @ flameout Amarillo 2 oz Dry hop in Secondary Danstar Nottingham OG 1.049, Yeast Pitched at 72. Fermented 6 days in Primary at 68 21 Days in Secondary at 50...