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go for it. even if it fails miserably, you're only the assistant. so it's all your bro in laws fault. if it is a hit, you can claim it was your expert help that put it over the top. I see no reason not to, since you said you won;'t have to quit your real job. and there is at least a small...

its not usually two ingredients not working together, its using too much of certain ingredients that ruins the beer. especially the dark roasted malts, or peat smoked malt, some of these are "a little goes a long way" ingredients. if you check out recipes other people have had success with...

that is awesome

if your wife isn't sick, her senses are probably more trustworthy right now. sometimes things smell and taste pretty weird when you are sick. most likely the beer is going to be fine, when it is fully conditioned, and you're healthy again...

They make a beer called Horse Piss Beer? that is hilarious. I need to find a bottle of that, just to show people and laugh....

I heard somewhere Foster's isn't the biggest selling beer in Australia, like you might think because it is the one that is sold here and has commercials, etc. but that it is made by the same company that makes the most popular Aussie beer, they just thought it would appeal the most to...

I read in a mag you can use us-o5 , ferment as cool as you can, then after the beer is bottled and carbed, leave the bottles in the fridge for a couple months, and it will taste like a lager. or you could use Wyeast 2112, or the White Labs equivalent, they are lager yeasts that can ferment in...

each hop strain is the same, if you buy fuggles from store a, they are the same as fuggles from store b. however, the Alpha Acid % can be different, since that can change from crop to crop, and if store a gets their fuggles from a farm in one state, and store b's come from a farm in a different...

no, it actually gains flavor. there are malliard reactions taking place, the sugars being boiled are being changed, the hop acids are being isomerised to give bitterness.... some styles of beer benefit from boiling for a longer time, to increase all these flavor enhancements.

congrats! here's to many more great brews!

I think Mexican lagers usually use the German noble type hops. if you can't use a lager yeast, I'd suggest US-05, or maybe White Labs cream ale blend. if you make it now, put the bottles in the fridge after they carb and leave them till summer, it should be lager like.

hops are best kept in the freezer. yeast in the fridge. everything else, just keep it dry.

I always use 2 cups of water to make the priming solution. I start siphoning the beer into the bottling bucket and dump the priming solution in after I've siphoned a bit of the beer in. Never had a problem with unmixed priming sugar. I highly doubt the 1 extra cup of water is going to water...

I'd do a sour coffee ale. Just because no one else will.... coffee dunkel could be good too.

1.004 is already very low... you might find your beer to be too dry after adding the beano. I hadn't heard that adding beano would lessen calories. anyone else heard of this?

yeah, that was it. My freind had said it was needed anywhere in Texas, but I don't know if that was true, or just the town/county he was in. this was maybe 4-5 years ago. other things about TN laws... you can have an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, as long as you are not the one...

I think the components should last quite awhile if handled correctly. I'm still using the same capper, carboy, airlock etc. I got with my starter kit five years ago. I have gotten more carboys, and replaced the racking cane and tubing, but the originals lasted a good while.

I use dry yeast for most ales. there's enough ale strains to usually have one for the beer I'm making, but occasionally I want a specific yeast and have to use liquid. to make a real kolsch for example, you need kolsch yeast. there is no dry kolsch yeast, but both White Labs and Wyeast carry...

I don't. I use a hop bag in the boil so they all come out before the beer is in the fermenter. other people just toss the hops in loose in the boil. I don't think it has too much difference in the outcome, I just like not having more gunk in the bottom of the fermenter when the beer is done.

that sucks... hopefully they will at least replace the bottles and the ingredients for the beers.