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The wife will be retiring in less than a year. One of the options we are considering is opening a Brew Store. We have several different places we have concidered going. We are looking for a place where there is a good homebrew community but not a decent HBS in the area. If you could...

Here's hoping your 4th of July weekend is safe and happy. Here's to friends and family. Here's to a good brew. But most of all here's to the freedoms this land gives us to enjoy life and to those that have made and are making that possible. May we pass these freedoms and this country...

This will be my first attempt at a smoked beer, so I have 2 different questions. First Has anyone here ever use mesquite to smoke malt? I've read up online and in books about how to smoke the malt (BTW thanks to guys for all the info the some of the older threads) but I'm interested in...

I changed a few a things in my mash for last 3 batchs. As expected, my efficiency changed but it went up not down. Here's the details I haven't changed any of my equipment or my grind. I was batch sparging with a mash out step at 168 for 10 mins. Then I would drain the tun and batch sparge...

Woo Hoo!! It worked again for the ### time. Why is it that even after years of brewing and many batches under your belt you still love seeing that airlock start to bubble on your newest batch. Or am just weird? Of course there's that first taste of a new recipe. That's so good too...

We are planning to move later this year and I will finally be able to set up the keg system I want. I was just going over some of my up coming brews and was thinking about kegging and such. I was looking at an Old Ale repice of mine called Firesider. About 2 or 3 times a year I do a strong...

A friend sent me this and had to share. Budweiser® Lite Beer Recipe This recipe will make about 5 gallons of Bud Lite. 3.5 lbs 2 Row Pale Malt 1.25 lbs Flaked Corn 1.25 lbs Flaked Rice 0.50 oz Saaz hops 10 gal St Louis Water Place grains and hop in large bucket. Place...

I came up with this recipe as joke one day. Now I'm think of trying it. I'll do a 2.5 or 3 gal first, but this is the full 5 gal recipe. Do you folks think if will be any good or am I make uber hopped paint thinner? Recipe: Imperial Death Star TIPA Style: Imperial IPA TYPE: All Grain...

I'm at Grand Forks AFB for now.