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Personally, clear beer isn't important to me. I have found it to be helpful to have clear beer though if you have people who are leery of trying homebrew for the first time or just aren't experienced craft beer drinkers. I find that whirlflock in the boil, a good cold crash before kegging...

25,443 + 6 Gallons of a Robust Porter on Sunday ______ 25,449

In please. Thanks SS Brewtech!

So, had some friends over on Saturday night, for the official tapping of this. One of them brought a six pack of actual Zombie Dust so we could do a side by side. It's really, really close. color was spot on, hop character and nose was spot on as well. Only thing a little off, was mine was a tad...

No, do not dump it. Let it sit a couple more days, to a week and take a gravity reading. May have been a fast ferment, may have a leak around the lid (if you are using a bucket) If it bubbled at all, that means for sure it was doing something, so more than likely, it made beer.

Try to relax and enjoy it. It sounds like more than it is, but other than the extra time, I actually think all grain brewing is easier than extract. You have more down time in between steps to think about your next move. Not sure what kind of system you are using, cooler, BIB? I you are doing...

True, but it's easy to give a good version of it, without giving the real recipe. I do a BBQ rub that people have asked me about (which actually isn't measured by volume), I do it by sight and taste, but none the less, I always say, the base is half paprika and half brown sugar, depending on the...

It is kind of funny the different ways people react. I have a local brewpub that really embraces the homebrew aspect of beer. Enough so, that the last 2 times they have brewed bigger beers, they've invited the homebrewers to bring in a bucket or keg and get 5 gallons of the last runnings to take...

I brewed this up three weeks ago. Just kegged it on Saturday. I tasted the gravity sample and it seems pretty good so far. I adjusted the crush on my mill a few brews ago and am still trying to dial in my new numbers. I went finer with the crush and am coming in a little high with all my...

25,113 + 6 gallons amber Ale on Sunday ______ 25,119

Nope, false bottoms are for mashing and keeping the grains off the bottom of your kettle. Absolutely no need for one doing extracts. It also won't do anything to keep the sludge off the bottom anyways, they are strictly for your mash ton.

You should ask this guy. One of my favorite videos I've ever seen linked on here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09b17V4NWQ

Looks tasty, but be careful on the chocolate. I used a very small amount one time in an IPA, to add a little color and roasty flavor (I believe it was about 4 or 5 ounces) and it made a black IPA. Hopefully someone else will chime in who uses a lot of dark malts. I generally don't unless I'm...

I'm with others here who say to always have a spare tank. It's kind of hard for me to really say how many brews I get out of one tank. I have an odd system where once my one tank gets below 1/3 full, or the less full of the two I have if I just filled one, I start to use it only to get things...

No, not infected. Just yeast that hasn't dropped.

22,544 + 6 Gallons of Zombie Dust Clone = 22,550

It's probably not all the breweries fault though. There was a brewpub in the area that basically got me into craft beer in the mid 90s. In this area, they were the innovator, just brewing craft beer was the new thing. They always had a solid line-up of beers, with about 6 being their regulars...

This isn't about the customer always being right. It's about a customer buying a product that the associates company sells, then the associate basically telling the customer that their selection sucks. Is the customer always right, only if you want to make a sale to that customer. Obviously...

Room temperature is not fermenting temperature. Pe patient, let it carb up. Tasting it every day is only gonna make you have less when the beer is finally ready to drink.

I did find this article on how to make vegemite. http://ifood.tv/techniques/224083-how-to-make-vegemite-at-home