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I have been brewing a lot of single malt/single hop beers lately, and I'm getting the itch to be a bit creative. I started thinking about the best beers I have brewed so far (Graham cracker Pumpkin ale, Christmas fig Old Ale, Sour Stout, Home smoked Rauchbier), and was wondering what were other...

I just noticed these little pods forming on my Zeus hops. They didn't get stressed at all. They are actually growing very well, and have been all year. These are second year hops and I didn't get any of these pods last year. What should I do? Leave them? Cut them out? Will they come...

I'm going to be in the DC area (Greenbelt, MD) over the next few days, and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to find a bar that has lots of Belgian beer on tap. I am from the Philadelphia area, so I'm thinking something like Monks Café/Teresa's Next Door. I love...

This is for a 12 gallon batch: 37 lbs 2 row 1.25 lbs chocolate wheat 1.25 lbs crystal 40 3 lbs dextrose Mashed at 154 F for 60 mins. 6 ozs Chinook 60 mins 4 ozs Amarillo 10 mins 4 ozs Simcoe 10 mins 4 ozs Amarillo 0 mins 4 ozs Simcoe 0 mins 4 ozs Amarillo dry hop 7 days 4 ozs Simcoe dry hop...

I am planning on brewing Jamil's Brewing Classic Style's Wee Heavy (McZainashef's Wee... SG of 1.099, Mash temp of 154, Ferm Temp of 65F), but my LHBS only had one Edinburgh Scotch Ale yeast tube and it's best before date was August 4th, 2012. He just gave me the tube for free, but I also bought...

I have a bunch of left over hops and I was thinking about putting some in a pale ale. Have any of you ever used the combination of Magnum as a bittering hop, and Glacier as an aroma hop in a pale ale before? I was also thinking about dry hopping it with some home grown Columbus from last...

What do you guys (and girls!) think about a sour apple, and a sour cherry Berliner Weisse? I have two Lacto starters going (one from a Wyeast pack, and one's a homemade lacto starter), and I was planning on making a 10 gallon batch. I was going to use the home made lacto starter on 1/2 (5...

Anyone know what is wrong with my Cascade bine? This was the last one to sprout, but everything was going fine until I noticed this discoloration today???

I have a Flanders Red that I am about to rack off the Roselare Yeast cake that I originally pitched back on 1/1/11. I added about a lb of Red Currants to the beer about 8 months ago, and some are still floating on top in what's left of the pellicle. What do you think I should do? Do you...

I know Brett is a yeast, and Lacto, Pedio, and Aceto are bacteria... but they ALL taste good to me! I would like to think of these beers as examples of each "fermenter": RRBC Temptation (Brett); 1809 or Festina Peche (Lacto); RRBC Supplication (Pedio); plus Rodenbach, Duchesse, and Monk's...

Ok, I am about to brew my first Lambic but I have a few questions. I decided on using Jamil's recipe from Brewing Classic Styles (based on Steve Piatz's recipe) because well, it's Jamil's! 13 lbs 12 oz pilsner 9 lbs 2.7 ozs wheat Mash schedule to account for wheat: Dough in 113 for 15...

My brother recently gave me a bunch of homegrown hops, so I'm itching to get going on an IPA real soon. I put together this recipe, let me know what you think! Please be brutally honest too! I haven't put together many recipes yet, so I'm trying to learn! MIIPA Imperial IPA Type: All...

I currently have a locally harvested Wild Yeast that I was given at a homebrew club meeting. I also just made a starter from the dregs of a Cantillon Grand Cru, and I also have a 6.5 gallon bucket of Jamil's Flander's Red that has been aging for about 5 months now. I pitched Wyeast's...

iI currently have a beer that has the dreaded "cardboard" taste. I messed up, I know what I did, but I'm hoping to try and save this beer anyway! I read this on MidWest Supplies page about Polyclar Do you think I could remove the cardboard taste by using Polyclar? Anyone have any...

My wife, two kids, and I are meeting some friends in Baltimore next weekend. I'm driving us down from Philly, and my wife is driving us back. Does anyone have any ideas on where we should eat? My kids (both under 3 years old) are used to eating out in restaraunts, but after a long drive down...

I recently made Jamil's Maibock Recipe but I used a little too much extract by accident and overshot the expected OG. I also don't think I made a big enough starter. The original gravity was 1.080, and my final gravity was 1.021. It's not far off, 1.017 (expected FG) but it is still way too...

I am about to make my first all grain batch, and I had a bunch of left over hops in my fridge. I have the following hops: 0.75 Oz German Magnum 12% AA 0.50 Oz Northern Brewer 8% AA 0.75 Oz UK Kent Goldings 4.5% AA 0.50 Oz US Kent Goldings 4.5% AA I was hoping to just have to go buy...

Ok.... I recently bought this: While putting the kegs into the fridge, the CO2 tank fell over onto the concrete, and the brass fitting in between the two gauges broke off leaving half the threaded part in the base of the one gauge. I went to a local hardware store, and bought an easy...

I've only brewed two beers so far... an APA, and an ESB (both extract recipes using specialty grains), but I was just at a local bar tonight and had my first taste of some Belgium Sours, Lambics, and even a wild yeast beer. I just HAVE to brew some of these!!!! I had a Russian River...

For my very first batch ever, I used the Cincinnati Pale Ale recipe as oulined by John Palmer but I modified it by adding some Crystal Malt specialty grains to it at the start as the LHBS guy suggested. My brew day was last Wednesday. For the rest of my ingredients, I used sparkling amber...