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You say you are having problems with bottle bombs, on your first batch? Not first batch maybe? You weren't very specific. Perhaps we should tackle that issue before you repeat it with other beers and waste you money! (Not a waste of time as it is a lesson learned) So you were pretty vague...

Suprised nobody has spoken up on the recipe yet. If you want a bit of nutty-ness for the "peanut-butter" part of it, be sure to throw in some Victory malt or Biscuit malt. Maybe even up to a pound. I would cut back the black malt a little as that seems like it will come out a little bitter...

For a holiday beer the fiance and I are brewing a Cranberry Brown Ale. Not too heavy, with chocolate and caramel 120L as the darker malts. Will rack it onto a lb or two of cranberries for some flavor and a bit of the sourness to work with the malt. Also on the list for holiday beers: A nice...

What do you mean by mid-range application... like a mid range AA% application? I've had the experience of trying to identify two varieties of local hops here in Canada... and my advice is dont try. Use them for finishing or flavor but don't bitter with them, unless you want to use 1 brew to...

The leaves should pull off with very little effort. If they are crumbling in your hand then you've dried them too much. If the leaves don't pull off easily then you can dry them a little bit longer. I just harvested a guys hops Monday and I've finished drying some and put them in a freezer...

Im having the same sort of questions, with an unidentified hop vine ready for harvest being offered to me. From what I gather, it is difficult based on appearances. Labs can do genetic work and figure it out. There are other ways, namely, smell the lupulin! Pull some of the leaves out and rub...

For me, if I am brewing a kit I will call it by kit name, as in Brewhouse Pale Ale. If Im adjusting the kit beyond the regular instructions I will call it by style, as in when I concentrate the Pale ale and dry hop I call it "IPA" But when I partial mash and design the recipe myself, I call...

Beer grains.com, I like them.

Airlocks sometimes loosen after a rapid initial ferment. If you arn't gettign bubble, try re-seating the bung stopper. I just brewed a wit where that happened... bubbles stopped, I got nervous, re-seated the airlock and then twenty minutes later it was bubbling again. Or the lid isnt clamped...

I always like to drop in on the Hefe threads, so heres my advice. 1. You can use your container for the hydrometer, but its preffered to have a standard graduated cyclinder so you can measure exactly how much sample you need to take without going over. You can test it, observe it and taste...

You may have caught me in a bad quote. Giordano Bruno was convicted of heresy in the Roman inqusition and burned at the stake for beleiving..get this... that the sun is actually just a star, one of many. Blasphemy! A similar charge of heresy befell Gallileo Galilei. You can question-troll me...

Hey Mac, I would say just keep on letting it sit for at least three weeks total in your primary. Also, for that sort of heat, I use a big black "keg cooler" bucket, probably from Walmart for under $20. I use either a half bag of ice every morning or a few trays from the freezer. The first...

I love the two pages of people band-wagoning on the "squeezing is bad" train... without any actual input or evidence or anything. Thats why science will always win the day.. because so many people are ignorant! The earth was flat one day... and you would be put to death for heresy if you...

Wait so I get to buy a machine that you think is great because you don't have to actually brew? And your friends all bought it because they can't brew? And I get to make 2.5 gallons a pop you say? Only ten days? Holy this sounds like a machine where lazy people make sub-par beer very...

Im drinking a strawberry hefe Partial mash I brewed a few weeks ago. I used 5 lbs of strawberries in 23 L of beer. Procedure wise, I reccomend you rinse them with sanitizer. Cut off the bad bits or leaves with a sanitized knife. Quarter the strawberries and rinse again in a colander with...

Did your grandparents use plastic bottles for their drinks? Probably not right? Most of our older generations had better food and less processed garbage in their lives. Then again they used asbestos and lead alot haha. Plastic bottles are a more modern item that may not be safe, and...

I wouldn't put an alcoholic beverage in a container that wasn't designed for it... Never know what the alcohol might leach out of the plastic.

I second the Cascade, I've done several kits that can use it so I bought a pound. For pale ale or an IPA I have used American Ale I, American Ale II and British Ale and they were all very enjoyable. Hard to say which turned out best... Im currently drinking a Baron's Pale Ale kit (pre-made...

I'm trying to decipher what you mean and it's tough. You used too much smoked malt. Try again?

I've done about thirty I these kits. Honey blonde with provided yeast=good beer Honey blonde with British Ale 1098=one of the best beers I've had and way more flavor I honey. Or take a wheat kit and pitch wyeast 3068 for a basic Hefeweizen.