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This beer has been carefully designed to be like a much, much better version of Negra Modelo. People who like Negra Modelo and the BMC beers, in general, like my brother, will likely discover this beer is everything they could ever want in a beer and more. (ETA: This is NOT a clone brew, but...

Howdy, I have been using a turkey fryer for a while now, and find propane a very effective heating mechanism, but I wonder if it is the cheapest method to use to heat the kettle. I have looked at adding a firepit to my backyard, for wood-burning and grilling vegetables and general heating...

The wife went foraging while I was at work and came home with about a pound of native Texas Persimmon, and a metric ton of prickly pear tunas.The persimmons are black and soft and taste smoky, a little. We got plans for the tuna. The persimmon was just bonus. I want to make a small batch...

I started working on a red ale recipe for my dad, and after trying a few different things from a few different places, I sort of dialed backwards into a recipe that is only slightly off Jamil's Irish Red Ale article in BYO. So it goes. Dad's Red Ale 5 gallon recipe: 8 pounds of 2-row American...

Howdy, I recently acquired a new fridge and put the old one in the garage. I'm using it for brewing. I don't have the ability to customize and fiddle with it. It does exactly what it does. My experiments with it on the first batch indicate I can keep things between 40-50 degrees in there...

Howdy, My wife's mother is from Grenada. When my wife sipped an Oatmeal Stout Porter I made, she said, "It tastes like beer." (She's not a beer drinker.) Then, she asked if she could make eggnog with it. It's a Caribbean beverage of choice I've observed and enjoyed from Trinidadian, and...

I am sure this has been mentioned before, but it merits repeating. Brew-in-a-bag done with an overnight mash - in my case, a 3 gallon batch of small batch - gets consistently huge efficiency. Today was a real surprise. I aimed for 1.062 and ended with 1.078. I am hoping to get better at...

Howdy, I've been making lots of BIAB simple wheat beers lately and settled into a simple 50/50 ratio of two-row to red wheat, generally 3 pounds of each grain for 3 gallons of wort. I've been using flaked oats at different amounts and not noticing much difference between 10 percent and 2...

So, I was researching why a bottle of premium price beer tasted like a BMC with food coloring, and found this article. It made me very angry and sad and more inspired to tighten my homebrew production schedule so something is always ready...

Whatever it is, it is *delicious* It tastes like a really good port. 10 pounds of good honey 3pounds of dark brown sugar 2 gallons of black cherry juice 2 cans of Concorde grape juice concentrate Champagne yeast Various spices for a medieval-style spice flavor, including peppercorn...

Howdy, New to San Antonio, I enjoyed a brew or two at Freetail Brewery last night. This morning, I e-mailed them about the recipe they use for one beer I really enjoyed. It was simple, flavorful, etc. The Freetail Ale, I thought, was the best I had last night, and it was good enough I...

Per the instructions in John Palmer's "How to Brew" I home-toasted some malt. It's sitting in a little brown, paper bag over there, aging a little. http://www.howtobrew.com/section4/chapter20-4.html I'm hearing conflicting reports about how long I have to wait to brew the beer. Palmer's...

The Partial Mash is simple to measure (as everything comes by the pound) and simple to do: 1 pound of Quaker Quick Oats (It comes in a 16 ounce package for $1.25) 1 pound of American Red Wheat (Rahr) 1 pound of American 2-Row (Rahr) 1 pound of Vienna Malt Bring 1.5 gallons of water up to 154...

Emerald Ale 1.048 OG 1.012 FG 4.72% ABV 14.4 srm Batch size 5 gallons Boil size 4 gallons (Calculated with iBrewmaster) 3,15 Munich Malt LME 3.15 Bavarian Wheat LME 8 ounces pilsner DME 4 ounces Caraffa I (steeping) 6 ounces Belgian CaraMunich (steeping) 1.5 ounces Northern Brewer pellets...

Howdy, Mixing beers... Taking two completed beers and joining them together to form a whole new beer. Or, maybe three different beers. The possibilities are endless. Whilst cleaning the house today, I forgot I had opened a bottle of Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, which ended up half-full...

Howdy all, I'm thirsty for Hefeweizen, and I'm all out of my last homebrew batch. I generally skip brewing in the summer heat once the thermometer gets above 90, and only do Belgian-style before that. But, I want Hefeweizen. I've heard all sorts of stories about what people do to brew ales...

Howdy, So, I'm curious if there's a database of mead recipes that are similar to JAOM in these respects: 1) No boil sack-style mead using commonly-available grocery store ingredients 2) Reliable 3) 1 gallon that is easy to scale up. 4) Fast for mead (under 3 months to drinkable)...

Howdy, I'm loading up some recipes into iBrewMaster, and needed to add Cocoa Powder as an ingredient. Anyone know the SG and SRM of Cocoa Powder? Is there a good on-line resource where I can go look up some of this more technical stuff for next time so I don't have to scour the internet...

Howdy, We've got a mead close to finishing that we'd like to carbonate pretty high, similar to champagne. I'm curious if other meadmakers have advice about how best to bottle this stuff. Will it be all right with a good, easy bottle cap, or should we spring for a fancy corker, this time...

Howdy, I bottled a Smokey-Apricot Wheat Ale today, (smoked malt, honey malt, DME and dried apricots) and whilst sipping the half-bottle last bit from the bottom of the barrel, it occurred to me that the color and flavor was everything I imagined it would be and more. Here's a picture...