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Hi, my wife and I have a farm share through a CSA and they are offering amaranth. They have grown it fresh. Does anyone know how I could use this to make beer? Is it very different from using other adjuncts? How would I need to prepare it for mashing, etc? Thanks! Sent from my iPhone using...

Getting ready to bottle the Fuller's ESB clone from CloneBrews (first edition) but I misplaced my book. Does anybody have it and can you tell me how much corn sugar (NOT DME) for priming? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

On Sunday, I'm going to be bottling a special brew to commemorate the birth of our first child. I'm going to be using bombers (22oz bottles) for the first time. Do I need to be concerned with leaving additional headspace or should I use the bottling wand volume for headspace as usual? Thanks...

Just finished my first all-grain batch and was feeling triumphant (nailed the target gravity, etc...) and realized after pitching the yeast and putting it to rest, I realized I forgot to use my Whirlfloc tab. Any ideas as to how hazy it might end up? I brewed this for the impending birth of my...

Hi all, My father-in-law just showed me this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009UWHGXS/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 I've always brewed in glass. Anyone know much about this?

Just racked the following recipe: 6 lbs. Muntons Wheat DME (55/45) 1 oz Hallertau pellets (60 minutes) Safale US-05 over top of the following: 2.25 lbs fresh cranberries 3 oranges, seeded (with peels) 3 apples, seeded (with skin) 3 cups sugar (all put through the food processor)...

Looking for a good (or great) extract or partial mash cranberry ale recipe. The last recipe I tried was from "The Homebrewer's Recipe Guide" and was an ABSOLUTE DISASTER. I am having ALL the inlaws over for Thanksgiving this year and would like to show off my best... Thanks! ---...

I've been homebrewing for about 10 years now, but would like to try my first mead. Ideally, I'd love to brew one within the next week that I could have ready for Christmas Eve, but I know some kinds take quite some time to finish. Does anyone have a great, flavorful recipe (thinking...

My wife and I spent the weekend in Philly recently for our anniversary, wandered into the City Tavern and discovered Ben Franklin's Tavern Spruce Ale by Yards--one of their "Ales of the Revolution" series. Although there seem to be strong opinions about this brew on both sides, my wife and I...

I'm brewing for my sis-in-law's wedding. I have nailed down the styles I want to make and have been brewing test batches to dial everything in. I just got done with a Northern English Brown Ale that came out pretty unremarkable (tasteless). I know an NE Brown Ale is usually considered a...

Help! My wife's family is requesting a christmas-y/winter ale for our usual Christmas Night gift exchange. My mom always makes an incredible cranberry relish that I thought I could rack a basic beer on top of (and maybe add some cinnamon and/or nutmeg) to create a pretty good holiday ale...

I brewed a Northern English Brown Ale back in July, and it has been sitting in the secondary since August. I'd like to bottle it, but was curious if I'd need to add more yeast before bottling since it's been "conditioning" so long. I don't know how long yeast stays in suspension over time. If...

For a little while now, I've been tossing the idea around of brewing a pale ale using only noble hops for bittering, flavor and aroma. Was curious if anybody else had considered or tried this? It probably lands outside the style guidelines for American or English Pale Ale, but that doesn't...

I'm about to make the switch to partial mash brewing--on the way to all-grain brewing--and I'm going to try the "countertop partial mashing" process described in the October 2006 issue of BYO (at least for the mash part--I have a keggle and do full wort boils). The article suggests using an...

Just came across an ad for "Super Moss HB" and wondered if anyone had used it. Was curious to know if it cleared wort better than Whirfloc tabs or if they're equally efficient. Thanks!

Ever since I began using yeast starters, I've made them in Erlenmeyer flasks. However, it doesn't seem to matter how or when I try to add the extract (usually using a funnel), it always clumps up in the "delivery device" and causes problems. I guess what I'm trying to ask is...does anybody...

I got into the habit when I was doing a lot of extract-only brewing of using distilled water. I still use distilled water when I do partial mash batches now as well, but am reading that pH affects the efficiency of the mash. If I'm only doing a partial mash, how much does it matter? Is there...

I've been reading up on older posts about conversion rates from LME to DME. I have a recipe that calls for 5.73lbs. of LME. I keep seeing the following: 1lb Grain = 0.75lbs LME = 0.6lbs DME Keeping those ratios, I came up with 4.6lbs. of DME. Is that right?

I'm plugging a recipe from BYO into BeerTools pro. It's a Northern England Brown Ale that calls for 3.5 AAU East Kent Golding Hops for 60 min, and 3.5 AAU East Kent Golding Hops of 5 min, supposedly giving me an IBU rating of 26. When I plug all the ingredients into BTP, it only gives me an...

Does anyone know of a placed to send kegs to get professionally cleaned out?