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I am interested to hear all aspects of your experiments making mead with kveik yeasts! (Alterations to nutrient handling, fermentation time/temp, observations of flavor/aroma profiles, fermentation/flocculation/aging behavior, possible refermentation issues, etc...) ....I have a handful of...

I have a huge ice cream bean (inga edulis) tree on the property that is loaded with fruit. I'd rather harvest it than leave it to drop for the wild pigs and was thinking about what to do with them. I keep coming across references that it was traditionally used to make a fermented beverage...

I started a new set of first-years this spring (after my ex killed the old ones a few years ago). Except for the early-June incident of a couple Japanese beetles munching the growing tips off of my Tettnanger and serverely delaying its growth, they've been going like gangbusters all summer...

As many of you have heard, the Beer Judge Certification Program has announced a major update to its Style Guidelines - the styles that homebrewers and craft brewers the world over use to describe their beers. Gordon Strong, President of the BJCP recently did a presentation at the National...

Hey all. Amongst the stuff I'm bathering about on my blog, I am documenting growing some new hops from scratch. http://brewsandstews.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/rhizomes-arrived/ http://brewsandstews.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/preparing-hop-boxes/...

I would like to welcome the Home Brew Talk community to visit my newly-minted blog, Brews & Stews. Although I've been mostly quiet here lately, I've been an active member of the HBT crowd for a long time now - I think a good number of y'all will find my blog right up your alley. :D It will...

At any given point, I have 6-20 fermentors going. I primary in 4gal buckets that I get from work (a batch fills 3 or 4 of them). Every so often, one has a little bug left in a scratch that the sanitizer couldn't get to and I end up with a lactic pellicle (that can sometimes persist in the...

I tried a can of tamarind juice for the first time last week. Very interesting stuff. I was struck by how much the complex flavor profile was reminiscent of a young lambic/geuze or a light saison. Has anyone out there tried using tamarind in pale sours? If so, I'd be interested in amounts...

Anyone out there take a stab at a recipe for a clone of Ommegang's limited edition Art of Darkness yet? Had a bottle a few weeks ago and it just about took me to my knees....

Has anyone had a good look at or used one of these wooden kegs? The price seems fairly reasonable for a small keg to start a lambic in, but how is the quality? Do the fittings need replacing? In the end, I guess I'm asking, are these usable for aging homebrew? Suitable for adjustments to...

I recently brewed a 5.5-gal. batch of Chocolate Porter that included a small amount of Kona coffee in the mash. The last two days of primary, a bit more coffee (the same nice Kona) that was soaked in vodka was added to the fermenter. My current secondary fermenter for this batch is only...

Brew Name: Hop Hanger India Pale Ale Recipe Type: Extract with Specialty Grains Yeast: Danstar Nottingham Batch Size (Gallons): 5.0 Original Gravity: 1.055 Final Gravity: 1.011 IBU: 62.8 Color: 15 ABV: 5.2% Water: ------------------------------------------------- Start Water...

Brew Name: Startup Scottish Ale Recipe Type: Extract with Specialty Grains Yeast: SafBrew Ale DCL S-33 Batch Size (Gallons): 5.3 Original Gravity: 1.034 Final Gravity: 1.009 IBU: 16.6 Color: 11 ABV: 3.2% Water: ------------------------------------------------- Start Water: Poland...

Recipe Type: Extract/Partial Mash Yeast: Danstar Nottingham Batch Size (Gallons): 5.5 Original Gravity: 1.048 Final Gravity: 1.009 IBU: 17.5 Color: 28 ABV: 5.1% Water: ------------------------------------------------- Start Water: Poland Spring Target Water: Dublin, Ireland...

My great-grandfather owned a farm in eastern Pennsylvania (right next to Quaker country) that he had to sell during the Great Depression. I'm interested in brewing a beer that could potentially be like some he (or his workers) may have made on the farm. I don't know exactly where it was, what...

I'm working up a Dry Stout recipe (to use up some extra ingredients sitting around) with the following for a 5gal batch (pretty finalized on this stuff): 16oz Hugh Baird Roasted Barley 4.8oz Weyermann Carafa II 4.8oz British Crystal 135/165L 5# Briess Golden Light LME (yeah, I know...

I've been brewing beer for some time now but am getting ready to make my first wine. I've been working on a berry farm all summer and have a freezer full of alpine highbush blueberries in 1# ziplocs that were harvested from the best plants throughout the summer. With something like 25-35...

Has anyone out there gotten their judging sheets back from Samuel Adams yet for 2011 entries? The last I heard, they were supposed to mail by the end of July......

I'm looking for a New England-based distributor (preferably close to southern NH) of Makrolon FD (pretty much the only FDA-approved food-safe clear plexiglass/plastic). I'm looking for both sheets and rigid tubes. Any ideas? p.s. I already have a request in with Sheffield Plastics (that...

My first year of hops....in containers....in NH....Willamette, Cascade, and Fuggle. Willamette seems stunted - growing slower with a much thinner bine. Its position gets it a little less morning light, but light is strong through afternoon and evening. Fuggle and Cascade are growing at a...