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I was at a homebrew party last night and my friend showed me this bottle he got from a basement he was cleaning out. They said he could have it. The cork looks good to me. He said that what he could find dated it back to the 30s but he couldn't find much with the name Curacoa spelled Curacoa and...

I went barefoot down into the basement to finish rinsing off some stuff after transferring beer into my secondary carboys. Something went into the pad of my foot like an inch back below my pinky toe. "Oow" I put up with it for a couple days and couldn't get it out despite trying with...

Does mixing different beer yeasts like Lager strain and an Ale strain together in the primary work or does one yeast just kill the other one etc. I was wondering if you mixed an Ale and a Lager yeast if they would both finish off the beer in different ways perhaps giving a resulting beer with...

I made 2 side by side 5 gallon carboys of wort to ferment. Potential alcohol for the wort was 6% Exactly as the recipe called for. In one I pitched a vial of whitelabs british ale yeast. In the other 5 gallons I pitched way more yeast 2 vials that I made a starter with each the size of 3/4 of...

Is there something different about the alcohol made from the honey? It was like I was in a bit of a spell. It really felt different. I had a little sample of the mead last Christmas eve but I finally really drank some. 2 cups and it hit me right quick. Really unique. Does it go into your...

I had made 2 different batches of mead one a year and 2 months ago and one about 8 months ago. I transferred both batches into secondary carboys and was aging them. Finally I got tired of it taking up my basement space and carboys so I put it in 1 gallon jugs with cheap type twist on tops and...

I have some hops I grew and I'm tempted to put some right in my cup of beer Is there a technique for this? Got some leaf in my mouth LOL Virginia Wolf :rockin:

I currently have 2 turkey fryer type burners one for hot water One for boil They work well but... I worry about the weight of 14 gallons wort on them and I'm not sure if the grass would be greener with different burners The reviews I read on The Blichmann burners at northern brewer werent...