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If I end up with too much beer and not enough bottles and I'm really desperate, I usually dump one of my wife's bottles of Club Soda / Diet Coke from the fridge, and buy it back later. The PET bottles are definitely built for carbonation, since it's original contents are far more carbed than...

I would vote for "pitch the yeast" ... smell/taste it after 5-7 days as usual ... if it tastes ok then it was possibly a "nice" wild yeast and proceed as normal. If it doesn't smell nice then ditch it, all you've lost is your yeast starter. Hopefully the infection was just residual yeast from...

If this is your first all grain attempt, I would really recommend doing a couple of recipes with 100% malted barley before embarking on anything exotic. Most all-grain brewers will go through their life without ever doing a cereal mash, or trying to malt their own grains. In addition to the...

Hi Skullface, I've never done something like that but in the Mar/Apr 2012 Zymurgy magazine, there is a recipe for Chestnut Brown Ale. The brewer adds 1lb of chestnuts to the grain bill (9lbs other malts) for a 5 gallon batch. He roasts them at 350F (177C) until the nutty aroma develops, then...

Yup, now I have a yearn to do a Kolsch myself ... I was going to consider a Belgian Ale of some sort, but now I'm getting nostalgic :) Totally agree about Kolsch and BMC ... more flavour, but well within their expectations of what "beer" should be. My last 3 batches were 2 Alt biers and 1...

Hi All, first time poster but long-time reader. I've had the pleasure of passing through Cologne, and managed to sample beers from about 6 of the 22 Kolsch breweries. The beers obviously taste quite similar due to the restrictions of the style (a light-coloured, top fermented, and the water...