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My sister is having a baby in June and I would really like to brew something that would age until his/her 21st birthday. Any suggestions?

I'm going to do a brew with wild rice and pilsner malt, what would be the best way to mash it? I know I should crush the wild rice and boil it to gelatinous before adding it to the mash, but can I mash that with the barley? If so, what schedule?

I'm going to transfer a porter and want a little more sweetness. Is there a way to do that on bottling day without overcarbonating? I plan to use corn sugar to carbonate, just something that will leave the least amount of sediment in the bottle. I know maltodextrin can add mouth feel and...

What amount do you think it would take to replace the apples with tart cider in the knockout?

Thank you everyone, and remember that those smurfs had it coming.

My carboy is not bubbling. Red ale is fermenting, not activity in the airlock after two weeks. What could be the problem?

I'm considering bottling conditioning an ale in blue bottles. I'm not sure, however, if the blue glass will have any kind of effect on the final product, is there anything I need to be aware of?

Thanks. The first of the three carboys was racked 5 days after it was brewed, and I intend to rack the second one after 12 days, the third whenever, depending on how the beer in the second carboy looks.

I recently brewed a batch of American Pale Ale and decided I wanted to go heavy on the hops, but the problem was that I didn't properly adjust my recipe to hop pellets (it called for leaf hops). I made 15 gallons and separated it into three carboys, and am bottling it in three stages to see how...

Which part of Minnesota are you from specifically? I grew up in St. Cloud and went to school in Duluth, now I live in New England.