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Gents, A small dilemma to solve... I plan on doing a monster USA Barleywine this weekend similar to the awesome Bigfoot Brew. It calls for 22lbs grain bill, and by my calculations (22lbs x 1.3 qt water) approximately 7.15 gallons of water. The problem is, my converted cooler mash tun is...

So, I started my quintessential Sunday brew time head strong with the Northern Brewers Caribou Slobber recipe loaded on my tiny iPhone screen. I proceeded to build my grain bill, 9 pounds here, half pound there. All seemed perfect, until, the English Black Malt. I saw 1.25lbs. I'll give you...

Question... I am looking for those within the Arlington/Ballston area who are interested in a Home Brewer's Day. I am in talks with their management to do some fun events. The first being a day for home brewers in the area to bring their product and share/meet/drink. The second idea is...

So, for father's day I went and started kegging and built my own keezer. My problem started with over excitement. I know there are few mistakes that cant be corrected so here it goes. I wanted to naturally carb my kegs and proceeded to add 2.5 oz corn sugar solution (half the bottle amount)...

I took the plunge this weekend for Father's Day and built a Keezer of my very own. I almost started drilling through the walls of the freezer before doing some research. I quickly found out about the wood collar idea, something I would never had thought of on my own. Anyways, two days of...

I am starting to AG and want to buy in bulk as much as possible. With the said, I have a job, family and masters program that seems to take up much of my precious brew time. I got a 50lb bag of 2-row and decided to put the bag inside of a vacuum sealed space-bag to ensure freshness. Any...

So here I sit beginning my first self-made IPA recipe. I bought Beer Tools Pro and designed from scratch my IPA purposefully not looking at any other recipe to ensure this was MINE. Here's the skinny: Sherman Tank's Ends in d-a-y - India Pale Ale (IPA) B - American IPA 6.5 gal (S.G.: 1.053) 1...

So today was my first batch of all-grain and things went pretty good, but could have been better. I did a Belgian ale recipe from Northern Brewers called Golden Dragon. The recipe contained: -- 12-lbs.-Belgian-Pilsner-Malt- -- 0.75-lbs.-Belgian-Aromatic- -- 0.25-lbs.-Belgian-Special-B-...

Well I finally (after a year) decided to take the plunge from extract to all-grain. Yesterday I made my mash/lauter tun from my old coleman cooler and some copper I picked up at Home Depot (see photos). Next week will be my first shot at it. I'm thinking of ordering a good Oktoberfest kit...

Gentlemen, Today is my first partial mash brew, and while I've already done most of my brews as soaked specialty grains, this one gave me some troubles. I use an outdoor propane burner for heat and I had a hell of a time keeping the temp steady at first. The instructions said, "keep between...