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I'm really obsessed with the history of beer lately. Can anyone point me to good sources? Tell me how the process has changed (if at all) in the past two hundred years? I just can't find much on anything from the nineteenth century

I'm starting an onion patch this week and I was wondering if anyone has tasted or even attempted brewing an onion beer. If so what were your results/reactions to it. Do you have to like onions to like the beer? Anyways just rambling thoughts I had gardening this afternoon.

I wanna do a three gallon batch of a mead with a little bit of maple and some peaches I think. I'm not sure how to proportion it evenly to make a good flavor. Any advice?

I'm brewing an imperial pale ale the grains are in the pic and the hops are all Columbus. Would it be wise to mix one ounce Columbus hops with half an ounce of cascade?

I brewed some mead back in August. 15pounds of honey 5 gal of water and then later during the secondary I added close to 2 gal apple cider 3apples and 3pears. It's close to filled the 6gal carboy. I was wondering when would be the best time to bottle. It's been about Four months already and I'm...

There's a friar tuck in my town it takes them forever to restock their merchandise. I'm looking for where I can buy good, quality equipment and ingredients at a reasonable price if possible.

Looking to buy some carboys for Christmas gifts wanna know where the cheapest place to get one is. Also long digital thermometers to temp the wort and must. I live in Springfield Illinois if that makes a difference (because of shipping)

Never tried mulled wine before but i do like regular wine and will drink it warm. Sake isn't too bad in my opinion either. Anyone know any good recipe or what I should shop for if I were to try mulled wine?

Can anyone describe to me in basic terms what is going on in the beer. I know the yeast converts the sugar into carbon dioxide and alcohol but can anyone give me the chemical formula--or point me in the direction of some good chemistry 101 savvy information? Much appreciated! Many thanks!

I had an idea to do a pepper mead. Kinda want to try with habaneros. I'm not going to do this till next year. Just wanted some of your thoughts on the subject. Anyone tried it? Can anyone point me in the direction of good information? Thanks!

I tried brewing an IPA a while ago and as far as I know the first few days the ferment never took. I left it in the bucket too irritated to even look at it. Its been in the bucket since the fifth of November. Today I went to pour it out and it doesn't look contaminated. Not sure if it's good to...

I'm kinda new to brewing. ANyone know a good recipe? Link it if it's easier. Thanks. It's just looking at all the different types of recipes some are extract some are all grain--it gets kind of overwhelming because I still feel really new at the whole process. I kind of want to do a two-hearted...

I have a cyser that i made and I'm about to add some pears to it. I was wondering about putting oak chips to it and what anyones results with oak chips (what kind of oak too) might have been with any mead variant or cyser. This is my third brew of anything alcoholic. my recipe 15 lbs of honey 5...

I'm getting freshly made cider tomorrow to put into my mead which has been fermenting strongly for the past couple of weeks. I just added three yellow delicious apples to my mead--which is 15lbs of honey, water, lalvin yeast. I was worried that if I added unpasteurized, preservative free...

Just wondering what the details on using pasteurized cider versus unpasteurized cider in my mead. I just added about three delicious apples. The mead we made with 15lbs of honey, water and Lalvin yeast--pretty basic. I want to add about a gallon of cider to fill the space in the carboy. I'm...