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Sounds great, count me in. Always game for an upgrade!

BYO and homebrewtalk forum

Thought this was an interesting video about breweries and how they deal with their wastewater treatment.

Make a Belgian trippel but cut back on the hops.

This: We brewed enough to fill a whiskey barrel, took some work, on 2 systems, 10 and 12 gallon batches at a time, over a couple days. It was a hell of a weekend! 65 gallons - 55 for the barrel, 5 gallon to compare that didn't go in the barrel, and another 5 gallons to offset the "angel's...

Brine overnight - standard water, salt, sugar, rum, garlic, bay leaves and pepper. Dry with a paper towel, lay out on cooling rack and have a fan blowing on it for about an hour to form the pellicle. In the smoker for 4 hours with pear tree wood (neighbors tree). Old charcoal smoker, temp...

Does smoking lake trout and salmon count in the Meat Smoking forum? :)

wedding

Brewing last weekend, needed 2 kegs to get my RO water, and voila, I found a full keg. It was carbed and under pressure, put it in the keezer, sampled it, and bonus - it was a keg of my barrel aged saison we brewed 2 years earlier, then aged in a 55 gal whiskey barrel with Bret for a year...

I saw an article this morning on gene editing, coming up with new fruits, etc. which got me thinking about all the new hops out there. I believe these new varieties come from selective breeding, but was wondering if gene manipulation was/is being used to create new hops varieties. A quick...

Go back and brew a couple of batches from extract. Learn your system - fermentation temps, yeast pitching, etc. A lot less can go wrong with extracts, and you can brew some really good beers using extract. Get some good beers under your belt so you feel good about it again, get the process...

I just wanted to share a fun, successful brew day. Had a recipe all planned out for Sunday, got a nice early start. My plan for the mash – I’ve never done a mash out, heard it’s not really necessary, but often thought about it, so planned on reducing my sparge water by 1 gallon, and take that...

I've seen them at ballparks.

and open wallets