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Let me regale you with a brewing story and then we'll get to the questions: The brew-girlfriend and I have approximately 15 batches under our belts in almost a year of brewing and we've noticed an absolutely inescapably terrible defect in about five of them thus far: The dreaded taste of...

Set-up: We've got a RIS (OG: 1.096, Recipe here [over sparged, heh], pitched with a starter that was a mixture of White Labs Super High Gravity yeast and British Ale yeast, as our Dry English Ale yeast came spoiled in the vial) which has been fermenting for about three weeks now and I have a...

We've got a weizenbock that we pitched last weekend and I've got some questions because it smells terrible through the airlock. Relevant information: White Labs Hefeweizen (WLP300) pitched @ 70 deg F into 1.071 OG wort, straight from the store-bought vial. It's something like our 8th or 9th...

First: I have two hopyards, one in our backyard and one at some nearby friends' place. Tonight I was giving the plants at the other place some much needed attention (and fertilizer), and I notice these little brown patches on the edges of some of the lower leaves of 3/4 of the plants. I'm...

My girlfriend and I just got into brewing and gardening and it struck us that we could grow our own hops as well. We ordered four rhizomes from Northwest Hops and three "fully rooted plants" from High Hops. The rhizomes are going off like a firecracker (especially the Williamette; vigorous...