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I've searched for info on this both on here and google and come up with a few leads, but most of them a year or two old at least. I've only bottled in the past, but I recently went on a trip to Scotland and fell in love with cask-conditioned ales. I think the creaminess is what did it. I've...

This is my first year growing and I am very pleased with the results. I am in Central VA and grew two cascade vines up the back of my deck of my townhouse. I read that you shouldn't expect much production first year, but I have now had 3 harvests, with the one today being the best. I'm...

I have an awesome brother. He doesn't brew, but before coming for a visit, he went to his LHBS and bought some stuff for me that they don't have in my town. One thing I asked for was 6 oz or so of Special B, which my LHBS doesn't stock. He came with 3 lbs of the stuff, crushed. Anyway, was...

I'm working on a recipe for next weekend that I need some input on. I call this "Moorefield Farmhand's Ale" after the farm in Kentucky where my father grew up. They didn't brew, but the inspiration is to use ingredients that they would have if they brewed. It is kind of like a dirty Kentucky...

I'm thinking about using oats in a recipe for a belgian specialty ale that would be aged for at least a few months. My plan is to use raw whole oats, toast them, and use them as roughly 7% of fermentables in a beer also containing about 15% wheat, 15% dark candi syrup, and the rest barley. I...

I am getting ready to bottle a tripel that, at the end of it's aging, was cold stored for 2 weeks at around 33F. I'm going to add fresh yeast, but my question is how to calculate the priming sugar addition. I'm going to aim for 3 volumes, but I know that you have to calculate taking into...

This weekend I'm planning on bottling 5 gallons of a belgian that is sort of on the edge between tripel and blonde (OG 1.070). Ideally, I would have all of the right containers to add enough priming sugar to get to 4 or so volumes of CO2 to get an authentic, high carbonation tripel/blonde...

I know a lot of DIY computer fan stirplates have been posted before, but everything I have found has said that you need a 12V fan from a desktop so I wanted to post my experience using a 5V laptop fan. I wanted to make a computer fan stirplate, but didn't have an old desktop available. I did...

After 8 days in primary, I racked my belgian tripel (first all grain batch) to secondary. I noticed a definite skunky beer smell. I also sampled some that I used to do a gravity reading and had a definite heineken taste to it. Certainly didn't have the fruity notes I was hoping for and...

So, I am brewing a belgian tripel and pitched two wyeast 1214 smackpacks. I plan on a semi-long secondary and crash-cooling so I want to have some yeast to re-pitch when bottling. I am considering two ways to keep some yeast for this and for future batches and want to know which way is better...