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The most Irish beer ever? It's called whiskey. For when beer just isn't enough...

My business ships via USPS every day. Some domestic, some international. It is a mess... Typical domestic delivery is 3-5 days, but can be as much as 30 days and still be considered "on time", international is typically 1-3 weeks, but up to 3 months is not considered unusual. It is also...

A bad beer is one that the customer does not enjoy. Yes, it is entirely subjective. But you want to keep your customers, so you satisfy them. Except when you decide a customer is not worth your effort and you pitch them out...

If I pay for a beer, and it is bad, I am sending it back. That is not a sense of entitlement, that's getting what I paid for. Any business owner would rather you speak up and give them a chance to make it right, rather than simply going somewhere else in the future.

Update: 3-4 days in primary, it has a good 2 inch krausen on top. I just added 1.5 lbs of honey. Not heated, just room temperature (80-85 degrees) added directly to the fermenter. I'm hoping that the late addition of the honey will provide some aromatics to this brew. Honey flavor would be...

It isn't something I would want to do on a regular basis, but it worked. It was very easy, and only took a few minutes. The biggest difficulty is not making flour out of the grains. Small amounts of grain at a time, and short pulses on low speed seemed to work.

I'll have to keep that in mind. Since this is a hefeweizen, cloudy is not a bad thing. I am a proponent of the month long primary, and I use gelatin when I want a clear beer.

I brewed my first all grain brew-in-a-bag style this weekend. It was awesome. I brewed a variant of Ed Wort's Bee Cave Brewery Bavarian Hefeweizen using 1 lb less of the red wheat and 1 lb less of the pilsner than the original recipe. I also picked up some honey for addition at high-krausen...

I would go with the stuff needed to make yeast starters. I would then start harvesting and re-using yeast. Then put the $$ you save buying yeast to getting the O2 kit.

I like the Wyeast 3068. It's just a basic German wheat yeast. Tasty, nothing fancy.

Wow. Those are nice. I just use milk crates, as I get them free at work (people bring us stuff in them, and no one wants them back -we cant even get the dairies who theoretically own them to come get em so we throw them in the trash.) One day I may have to upgrade.

A Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walk into a pub. They each buy a pint of beer. Just as they were about to enjoy their beverage three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away from him in disgust. The Scotsman fished the offending fly out of his...

There is a lot of information on this site about brewing with honey. (Use the search!) I read thru a lot of it recently as I am brewing a Honey Hefeweizen now. Short version is that honey ferments out very clean, and leaves very little flavor behind-but it does boost your abv and dry out...

Do not boil coffee. It is a potential vector for infection, but the chance is slim. Boiling coffee will change the flavor, and will drive off the delicate aromatics. If you want coffee in your beer, take the risk. If you feel the risk is too great, don't use coffee.

There is a member on here who makes some of the best false bottoms I have ever seen... Jaybird, I think it is.

Rinse with water after emptying, leave on counter until I get tired of them building up. Soak in a sink full of hot water + Oxyclean to remove labels / any organic gunk, rinse with hot water, drain upside down in the dish drainer. I can soak 24+ bottles in my sink at one time, and 30-60...

Do not talk about fight club.... Also, listen to your wife.

Use 1 liter of water with your 8oz of espresso. After you press it, filter it. Just put a cone filter in a funnel and pour it thru -it will remove a surprising amount of fine particles, and keep your beer clean.

Try this one: http://up.jamesnweber.com/_brew/biabcalcs.html

Well, as you can already tell you are gonna get a lot of opinions.. so here is mine. Cold brew your coffee. Cold brewed coffee will have a lighter, more delicate flavor as the bitter oils are not extracted by this process. Avoiding these oils is important for head formation. Use a good...