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Thanks for the input. In the recipe above, any advice on WHEN to add tart cherry concentrate?

Thoughts on this? My biggest question is about WHEN to add the cherry juice concentrate, but I appreciate any other criticism or feedback. I'm thinking of just going with one of the commercial lactobacillus mixes, rather than souring from grain or lactic acid. For 6 gallons in the fermenter...

Hello everyone, This summer, I had the good fortune to spend some time on Lake Michigan, up near Petoskey, and enjoyed some delicious beer at Petoskey Brewing. They had a lot of great stuff, but I was particularly taken with their Michigan Cherry Wheat, which was light, tart, and very...

^ Seriously! Great price!!!

Not that you asked for this advice, per se -- but no matter how careful I am in calculating the proper amount of priming solution or how confident I am, I always put my bottled beer in a cardboard case and put something heavy on top until it's complete and I am sure it's not going to explode...

I'm at 33... I don't have specific ideas, but I will say: CONGRATULATIONS!

^ Actually, it looks like they have 20% off both kits when buying two or more.

Seriously though. Unless we've been totally trolled... how was it?

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Seems tricky enough to figure out. Give yourself a break -- at least you eventually found and solved the problem! Cheers!

Just made a Roggenbier with 7 pounds of rye malt and used almost a pound of rice hulls... and should have used more! I use a round cooler with a false bottom, and I've never had a stuck sparge before, but I had considerable difficulty lautering and sparging. So I second, third, and fourth the...

I came up with mine on a day after I'd gotten a sunburn. Weird and stupid but true.

When confronted with such dilemmas, I tend to fall back on old familiar platitudes, like "Safety First." Carrying scalding water anywhere is a very bad idea. I urge you to do whatever is necessary to avoid such a practice. Whether that means buying a new kettle and burner, or, better yet...

Thanks for the feedback, Martin. And for your fantastic spreadsheet!

Hi everyone, I've gone from just using my water as-is for years, to filtering and treating with Campden tablets... and now I want to take it to the next level with water treatments to optimize brewing issues like mash pH, alkalinity for style, and so on. I honestly don't know much about all...

I first tried brewing back in 1995, in Eugene, Oregon. I was fortunate to have a chance to meet Chris Studach at his house and sample his delicious homebrewed Hazelnut Brown. In 2008, I restarted brewing and did extracts on the stovetop for a while, with decent results. About two years ago, I...

Just drank my last bottle of an American Pale ale from 2008. It lost most of its hoppiness but was otherwise delicious and perfectly quaffable.

Sorry to hear for your trouble. That sounds incredibly frustrating. I bought a 15 gal kettle from Spike Brewing and the equipment was fine. I made a small mistake with my order and e-mailed them about it on a Saturday afternoon, and they got back to me on Sunday evening. I found them to be...

Ordered a few hose clamps. Cleaned up a minor airlock blowout and replaced it with a blowoff hose.