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At the moment I have one tiny space in my house where I can store all of my brewing – it’s an old furnace room. In order to keep this room at the right temperature range I need to keep a light burning, which brings the temp up sufficiently to let the yeast do their thing. My question is this...

The thing I like best about this hobby is the pride of ownership you get when you produce a damn good beer from your own efforts. However, a close second for me is the fact that I’m making my own damn good beer AND saving a boat load of money in the process. Surprisingly though, I’m reading...

I’m hearing that the kits requires a very large fermenter of about 7-10 imperial gallons (can’t find any info on their website to confirm this). I’d like to give one to my dad for a present to get him started (think baby steps here) and I`ve got a spare fermenter that`s the standard 6.5 gallon...

Just made the wort for my second batch today, a nice wheat ale, and had a few unexpected surprises: 1. A tiny tiny fly flew into my covered fermentor where my 2 gallons of water were cooling. Didn’t notice until right before adding my yeast. 2. Thermometer shattered while sanitizing (and...

I just pulled a bottle of blonde ale out of the fridge to have another test of the 1st batch of beer that I’ve tried brewing. It had been chilling for 36 hours and conditioned in the bottle for just over 3 and ½ weeks. I poured it into an ice cold glass, saw lots of beautiful carbonation, a...

I just recently brewed my first batch of beer, a blonde ale. Overall I was very pleased with the beer's taste, but I was unable to produce any head and I'm wondering why this might be. I'll mention a few possibly relevant factors... I followed John Palmer's well known guide. The beer aged 12...