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Wormwood is not toxic unless in very high doses, i.e. pure wormwood oil (even then, it requires roughly 45mg/kg to be lethal, so if you can drink a pint of pure oil you might just die). It is an ingredient in absinthe, which was thought to be a cannabinoid or a hallucinogen, although what...

I did 6.6# lme, 1oz hallertauer (3/4oz at 60, 1/4oz at 15), and used WLP300 German Hefeweizen. Fermented a little too warm starting around 70F and ended up finishing around 78F. Banana was almost overpowering the flavor, it's mellowed off some as it's sat around for 1 1/2 months. Second...

heaven .

p u s s y I like the way it rolls off the tongue

I checked it today, dropped a whole point to 1.019. I ran the numbers on it and it's better than 5% abv, slightly high gravity for the style. Racked it and then popped open a couple of stouts and remembered that my beer is awesome.

I swirled the wort and got the yeast back up, waiting to see what happens. If it finishes, great, if not, I'm considering adding Danstar Nottingham next to see if that finishes it off.

I think it's stopped because all activity has stopped, krausen has fallen completely, and the yeast are dropping down to the bottom of the primary, gravity of 1.020 has held for 2 days now.

Okay, ran this recipe: Extra Special Bitter 4# Alexander's Pale LME 3# Munton's Light DME 1# Crystal 60L - Steeped 30 min @150F 1.5oz EKG bitter 60 min 1oz Fuggles bitter 60 min .5oz Fuggles 45 min 1oz EKG 30 mn .5oz Fuggles 15 min .5oz EKG 2min aroma OG was 1.060 (adjusted for...

I use about 1/2 gallon - full gallon of hot tap water to sparge. Do it until the water runs fairly clear.

Okay, I'm trying to figure out how not to overchill my beer, or find out if this is even a problem. I put together an immersion chiller with 25' 3/8" copper tubing, some polyester tubing to hook up to the sink and to drain it, and fittings to the sink. After the boil was over, I put this...

In Michigan also, there is an attempt being lead by Larry Bell (of Bell's Brewery) along with the Michigan Brewers Assoc. to increase the deposit on kegs to $30. The reasoning is because people aren't returning them or using them for other purposes (see keggles). Scrap prices on kegs runs...

And then he shot the dog. Little Johnny said "That's my uncle bending over in the shower to pick up the soap." I f*cked your dog, i sh*t in your purse, I'm outta here. I'd like to show ya, but I don't think I could fit another potato up my ass. Bubbles is the girl next door. Seamus, you're...

Last weekend: Friday: went to the bar, then wound up with a lesbian in my hot tub *wink wink* Saturday: drank my own beer, and watched hockey, go red wings Sunday: brewed my ESB, then went to the bar, and wound up in my hot tub with a couple friends. I call it a success.

I'd be a sad, lost soul if it weren't for good beer.

I got the tubing at an Ace Hardware down the street. It was labeled $17.49 for 25' 3/8" tubing. I didn't ask the guys working their silly questions of why the tubing was so cheap, I just paid. I'm guessing it's the soft medium wall variety.

I've been reading on here off and on for a couple months now, and I read about people buying full sacks of grain. So I'm curious, how much are you all brewing in a year? Personally, as an extract brewer three brews in I'm looking at maybe one 5 gallon batch a month, so 60 gallons a year.

I personally detest Blue Moon. Blue Moon has been owned by Coors for quite awhile and brewed at their Memphis brewery. And to any bar owner who calls Blue Moon an 'import,' remember that Memphis, Tennessee is in the USA.

For some reason My browser sent several requests at once, my apologies, If someone can clear out this and the rest of these, please do.

There are threads all over this forum to make an immersion chiller. Here's what I did a couple of days ago: Parts: 25' 3/8" copper tubing 2 4' lengths 1/2" polyester tubing sink -> garden hose attachment Garden hose to a smaller (I don't know size) attachment Adapter for dishwasher tubing, cut...

I looked up Goose Island, and sadly AB has a hand in them. AB owns 39.5% of Widmer Brothers, and Widmer has a minority stake in Goose Island (also Kona Brewing for that matter.) So AB does indirectly have a share in Goose Island, the benefit for them being that Goose Island gets to ride AB's...