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Hey Folks, Whenever my brother and I happen to be in the same town, we invariably strive to brew a collaborative beer together - something with shelf life that will last a few years. For our most recent collaborative beer, we decided to brew an Eisbock. Not only did we have to brew a...

Hey All, I've got a business trip coming up in a few weeks where I'll be heading for Western Ireland (Limerick, Galway) for 5-7 days. I have yet to find any good resources that describe the beer scene over there, so I wanted to ask if anyone has any suggestions beer destinations to check out...

(This is a continuation of the original post with updated links - HBT won't let me revise the original). Hey All, I’m not exactly sure what got me started on this, but I’ve been leisurely building a series of charts displaying the BCJP beer styles and their parameters. Maybe I’m just a...

Hey all, Several topics here on HBT and other forums got me thinking more and more about recipes and why people choose what goes into them. Through this thought, my brother and I decided to setup a project wherein we'll start exploring flavor combinations and recipe formulation. The idea...

Hey all, About 9 months back, I posted about my brother's and my fascination with nanobreweries. This prompted us to reach out to many of the regional nanobreweries in our areas to conduct interviews with the owners in order to find out their stories. The project ended up being a very...

A conversation with a friend of mine got me thinking: is it possible to use US 2-Row and one or more specialty malts (i.e. Victory malt, Biscuit malt, etc) to replicate the flavors associated with Maris Otter or other English pale malt as a base malt? Can you achieve that flavor by just adding...

Hey All, This is an extension of my prior post that was started back in April - I decided to start a new thread because HBT was not letting me go back and edit the original post in order to update the new content. Specifically, all the yeast chart links were updated and a new Beer Style...

Hey All, I decided this year to plan a couple hop rhizomes and one of my Sterling plants started off growing very well with good progress. However, in the past couple weeks, I've noticed that the upper section of the plant has become sparse with many of the leaves are taking a wilted, curled...

Hey all, A few months ago, my brother and I were talking about our fascination with nanobreweries. This prompted us to conduct a series of interviews with many of the regional nanobreweries in our areas just to find out the story behind each brewer and their breweries. Given that the...

Hey All, I’m not exactly sure what got me started on this, but over the past month or so I’ve been leisurely building a series of charts displaying the BCJP beer styles and their parameters. Maybe I’m just a visual learner, but by seeing everything laid out in such a way, I appreciated some...

Hey All, About a month ago I decided I wanted to try spicing a brown ale with Chai just to see how it would come out (I was inspired by Gordon Strong's recipe in Radical Brewing). I ended up brewing a Brown Porter, split the batch, and spiced half of it at bottling with a strong Chai tea...