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Sorry if I sound a little cross but this forum is ridiculous! Hops are NOT hard to grow at all. They are extremely hardy and adaptable. These are facts: 1. Don't worry about not seeing growth until May 2. You aren't going s%^t this year. 3. Every environment is different...

I was wondering if anyone else has shared this experience? I was formulating a barleywine recipe in beersmith and came up with a number on IBU's and alcohol %, etc. I happened to be telling a friend (who runs promash) about my recipe and he ran it through promash and came up with...

OK, I'll start this thread by to dissuade any advice on the purity of my lagering technique. I brewed an oktoberfest last saturday and as planned pitched it onto the cake of my recently (friday) transferred doppelbock. A technique I have had success with (as well as piece of mind) has been...

I am thinking about formulating a partial mash roggenbier. Does anyone have any recipe suggestions?

6 lbs Breiss Golden Extract .5 lb. Crystal 40L malt .5 lb. Golden Naked Oats .5 lb. Carapils 2 oz. Roasted Barley 1oz. Challenger hops (6.9% AA) 60 min 1/2 oz. Eastern Kent Goldings (4.2% AA) 30 min 1/2 oz. Eastern Kent Goldings (4.2% AA) 10 min 1/2 tsp Irish Moss (15 min)...

I had a unique experience the other day when I bottled my first batch of mead. I bottled my mead still (about 3 weeks after I added K sorb and additional honey) in wine bottles. Sometime in the 2-4 hours following my bottling one of my bottles either shot the cork out or the cork just slipped...

kicking around making an extract dopplebock: Here is my baseline......opinions please: 8.8 # Weyermanns Amber Munich LME 3# M&F light DME 1# caramunich .5# carafa II .25# carapils 1 oz Tettnang 60 min questions on this does anyone know a supplier for dehusked carafa malt, so...

brewed a hefeweizen on Friday 12/15. No real yeast activity that I can tell yet. I have seen a couple of bubbles randomly in the airlock but nothing to speak of. It also has developed some white floaties on the surface. I have been told these could be yeast colonies but they have not grown...

I am brewing my first batch of mead. a dry tradtional batch. It took app 8 weeks to finish fermentation, at which point I tried a little bit out of my siphon hose. It was too be honest....pretty rough. I could taste a bit of apple flavors.....but the main flavor was like vermouth a very...

Anybody have a good recipe or some advice for making a Munich Dunkel extract recipe?

Does anyone have a good extract recipe for barley wine. I have actually never tried a commercial version of barley wine, but the idea of a high gravity beer with long aging possibility is intriguing to me.

I wanted to grow my own hops. Any suggestions on varieties that would do best in the midwest, trellis design, etc.