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If you owned a brewery that distributed beer and it was on tap at place you are patronizing would you buy your beer or one other than yours?

I manage a local homebew shop. I met a young couple through the shop they were frequent visitors to our tap room until they went hard at it opening their own brewery. One week after opening a fire ( no fault of theirs) destroyed the plaza and put them out of business. I would ask that any...

After reading all I could find on how to add PB I am brewing PB stout tomorrow. At this point thinking of making a slurry of boiling water & PB then pouring in paint straining bag suspended in boil. I have de- oiled natural PB. Hoping this method will not clog my braid when draining kettle. Any...

Recently we attended a family reunion. Each year they hold an auction of white elephant items to raise money for the next reunion. I asked the wife if it would be ok to throw in a mixed six of home brew. She said great idea. I just happened to have six different beers to go. They were Belgian...

I am ready to drill holes in keezer collar for gas in. The clamp from the factory has a small mushroom shaped bend standing out. Should I drill the hole large enough to get this through or take off the clamp and replace. I was afraid if I used a band clamp to put it back together it may leak...

I just purchased my 5 cu ft holiday freezer at Lowes. I am planning on using a 1x10 for the collar and from what I see I will I will need to remove the plastic liner to get it to attach straight. Is the insulation inside & attached to the liner? Has anyone had experience with this?

When MBC closed a proposal was on the board to turn an old brick fire hall in Fenton Mi into a brewery restaurant. As of yesterday the new players are Arbor Brewing Co., Royal Oak Brewery,Detroit Brew Co. Non brewers are Clarkston Union & Wood Shop who have large craft beer list and Ciao...

The Michigan Brewing Company headquarters and brewing facilities in Webberville Mi.were closed Tuesday Apr.25th. They were foreclosed on and evicted. There goes my homebrew store and Bad A** beer.

I brewed a tripel left at room temp ( not quite as warm as it should have been)for 5 or 6 wks. I then put at cellar temps for a couple of months. It is not carbed much. If I now warm up do you think it will carb?

I am dry hopping an IPA with whole hops. Hops have been in about 24hrs. some are floating on top the other hops not even in the beer. Do I need to try and move them around or will they sink enough to get into tne beer?

I am thinking of entering a vanilla java porter in a contest. It is a robust porter . Would it go in that category or some other?

I am going to Cleveland in a week or so to take in an Indians Tigers game. We are of course checking out Great Lakes. Does anyone have ideas on what to see or do for an evening or the day leading up to the game. Looking on line they show rock&roll hall and the warehouse district. This...

I was wondering ,now that we have had a hard frost, should I run a tiller over top of my first year hops. I just cleared a small circle for each to get started. Today I ran the tiller down each side and in between. I was wondering if I could pull the stakes and till over them. Do not know how...

My son moved into a house on the great lakes and can see the ships pass in the shipping lanes. You can see them ok with 10x25 binocs. I am wondering if a15x30x50 spotting scope or a set of 16x50 binoculars would be better for viewing ships and other water activity.

I brewed a brown ale and for some reason can not get it to carbonate. I've swirled it kept it warm (after being to cool at the first carb try). I have read that adding yeast & or sugar might save it. I have added a few grains of yeast as instructed in my reading no real results, now am trying...

A story written by my son in the local bi-weekly paper. The Art of Homebrewing, Tri-County Times, Fenton MI

I was thinking on my next brew day of brewing two beers back to back. I would have every thing set up . Take one out of mash tun put in the next etc. It seems like this may add an hour or two but would have two brews done and only one major clean up. One would be a blue moon the other a...

I found a can of coopers dark ale extract I bought before I started AG. I thought to use it and left over and miss ordered grain Iwould try a mini mash with extract. this is what I've come up with...

Anyone here from the Fenton ,Linden, Holly, Grand Blanc Mi. area. Would like to do a newspaper story on local homebrewing.

I am going to brew a wheat with 4lb wheat malt & 4lb 2row do I need to add rice hulls to prevent stuck sparge?