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Last Christmas, I made a beer with spruce extract, and, well, it wasn't amazing. Probably a combination of reasons as well as the spruce, but either way, I looked into actually using real spruce the next time I did it. Apparently, the best time for harvesting those is around now. Anyways, I...

I know what you're thinking, and I kind of doubt it's yeast Also, I'm not sure it has to do with mashing, but it seems like the only thing I did different with this brew. Anyways... I brewed up an oatmeal coffee brown ale a few weeks ago, my first partial mash, which I bottled last night...

This is probably a really dumb question, but... I looked back on some threads here about using oat flakes in a beer, and I know I need to mash the oats. In many of the threads (about extract brewing), it says to simply throw in the pale malt with the oats and steep at a lower temp, and that's...

Hey everyone, I just had a question. I made a 5 gallon batch a few weeks ago, and 2 weeks ago, I bottled it using 5 oz. of corn sugar in the bottling bucket to prime. I put them in a closet, and left them to do work until now. (They sat at upper 60s - lower 70s in the closet this whole time)...

Hey everyone. So, I'm pretty new to brewing, but I was thinking for my next beer, I'd make a Christmas pale ale. I plan to use a fairly basic pale ale recipe, sort of based on my last recipe; but I wanted to add some spices, and one thing I read about here that sounded interesting is spruce. I...

Hey, so, it's my first time posting here... and my first time brewing beer. I pitched 2 packets of dry yeast, and it's been fermenting in fermentor bucket for around 36 hours now. There's been very little activity (bubbling) that I've noticed coming through the airlock, but the water level in it...