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My show mead is now approaching the 2/3 point (OG 1.090, current about 1.030). I degassed and fed it through the 1/3 point per hightest's recommendations. Everything seems to be going fine and it's gotten this far in 5.5 days and is still bubbling every couple seconds. Ambient temps in the ferm...

My wife is a wine snob. There, I said it. Having grown up with a father who appreciates and buys good wine, and having worked for some of the largest wine distributors in the world, she knows good wine and will turn up her nose at those she doesn't like. Me, I'm pretty happy with a bottle of...

I recently brewed up an 11g batch of extract weizen because I was running low on beer and needed something quick. I split the batch into 2 fermenters and pitched a pack of 3333 in one and a pack of 3068 in the other for a quick experiment. I thought I would share the results for those trying to...

I've got quite a few all-grain beer batches under the belt and was thinking about trying my hand at a mead. I'm a complete noob in this arena. I'd like to give some bottles away for Christmas and wondered if anyone had some recipe suggestions for me. What could I make that would be ready in 8.5...

I'm getting ready to brew up some basic pale ale or Koelsch and was looking around the site at some of the recipes that are out there. It seems that both BierMuncher and EdWort have some popular recipes. Some that look good to me would be the Centennial Blonde, Krisper Koelsch, Bee Cave Haus...

I don't have a keg setup and have no intention of getting one, so please don't post saying that I should move to kegging. I live in a small 3rd floor apt and don't have the room. Plus, I don't drink at home that often and am always taking beer with me. I brew 10g batches and needed to figure out...

I made some upgrades to my 15g megapot today that I thought I would share. I'm certainly not the first to make these, so I can't take credit. They should make brew days go much smoother, though. 1. Kettle pick-up - I never liked the idea of a copper pickup tube that is bent in a U shape. I...

So, I'm fermenting a roggenbier right now and my temp control has been poor. I'm using wyeast 3068 and the temp in the ferm room is about 72-75F. The fermenter is certainly above that. I may be able to get the ferm temp down a little bit, but I don't have a chamber set up yet. The smell coming...

I'm looking for a good way to store yeast long-term and recently came across the sterile water storage technique. I know there are other ways out there - freezing, slants, plates, under beer, etc. - but they all have drawbacks. I don't have the equipment for freezing, and slants and plates have...

I was checking out the website for the Craft Brewer's Convention happening this week in Chicago and I saw an ad for the Rehrig pubkeg (www.pubkeg.com). Anyone ever seen one of these? This looks pretty interesting. Basically, it's a disposable, fully recyclable 5.25gallon keg. Right now it...

OK, so I had a little misstep yesterday. I mashed as normal and thought everything was going well. I had the wort on the burner and it was just starting to boil. I threw in my hops for a 60min boil and turned my back for one second to set something down. Whoosh, the damn thing boiled over and...