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I'm planning on doing a red ale for my next batch and I'm curious what ingredients and techniques people would recommend in order to get as close to a true red color as possible. I've searched around the forum and elsewhere a bit and have seen some pretty interesting suggestions, but I'm...

I've been playing around with the trial version of Beersmith and it doesn't seem to have this type of extract, which is what I've used in a good number of my previous batches and plan on using next. I put in "Amber Liquid Extract" as a substitute since it seems to have a similar description...

I read about this hop in the brewing book I have and found some information about it online, but I haven't found much concerning how much to use in a typical 5 gallon batch. I'd like to try and use Pacific Gem in a stout recipe. I played around a little with the trial version of beersmith and...

I'm planning to make a stout for my next batch and the idea occurred to me to use a heff yeast to try and get some fruit flavors in there. Has anyone had any success using heff yeast to make a stout or any other kind of non-heff beer for that matter?

Hi all, so this weekend I'm hoping to get going on my 4th batch of home brew. My previous 3 have all been predetermined recipes from the local brew shop for the most part. This will be my first attempt at doing my own recipe from scratch. I'm not totally sure what I want to use yet, but I have a...

I've made two batches of beer so far and both had a bit of an overcarbonation problem. The first batch, they all seemed to foam a bit more than normal upon first opening and a few bottles gushed. I went down from using 1 1/4 cup of corn sugar to using just 1 cup on my second batch and there was...

Checking in from San Diego by way of Lake Elsinore. I've lived in SD for about 4 years now and just got into homebrewing a few months ago with a friend of mine. What can I say, college and the abundance of microbreweries down here inspired us! So far, we've been going to Home Brew Mart (run...