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hey all, quick question, ive been trying to come up with an alternative to hops as a bittering agent. My wife absolutely dispises all things hoppy, and i want to try a beer with absolutley no hops in it. i know hops is a recent ingredient in beer, so what did they use before it?

a cup is a volume measurement, so therefore it cant be expressed as a wieght. you need to do it by weight to be certain of the ammount, because you can pack alot of sugar into a cup or scoop it up, tap it with a knife and level it and you get a very different weight. I agree with scinerd, a...

ok i know im going to sound like a noob, but ive searched the forums and i cant find a procedure for yeast weashing, anyone got a link for me?

i should not rinse it at all before i put it in right, i want the starchy goo to go in

i just made a trip to the lhbs today and they were out of all the things that i needed for the recipe i brought with me, and had to wing it. i got home and put in my ingredients into brewsmith, and i need flaked rice for the recipe, is there anyway i can use regular rice in it instead? i should...

by backsweeten, im guessing you mean add the sweetener in the secondary rihgt?

hey all, ive been enjoying hard cider for several years now, and how that i have a home brew kit, i realize i dont have to pay 15 dollars a bottle for it. i wanted to know if anyone has a recipe for a very sweet hard cider, with a good abv. my wife doesnt like dry anything, so i have to...

I've got my first beer in the secondary and im feeling ambitious i used beer smith and came up with my own partial mash recipe, its a strawberries and cream ale please be blunt i want this recipe to be a little sweet with good strawberry finish, its for my wife 4.00 lb Extra Light Dry...

thanks for the input, i was planning on a partail mash, and that walkthrough is quite helpfull

i wish she were that understanding, but of course my LHBS is like an hour away so that would be hard to do and as for the rest of the replies, i know that i can just wait till i get a new one, but i have ABSOLUTELY NO PATIENCE, i really dont mind if i get a few bottle bombs, ill just store my...

im not a major brewmaster or anything but how bout this, cover 2-4lbs of bacon, cook down till you have a large amount of bacon grease and liquid, let the liquid sit till it cools and seperates some, take the "bacon broth" away from the grease and use that in a beer, you could also add, brown...

ok ive got my first brew under my belt and i want to make my wife a beer as a way of saying thanks for allowing me to hijack her kitchen for an afternoon a week:) i want a cream ale, similar to a bmc(its my wife, im working on her but she still likes the crap;)) ive never done any recipe...

after doing a sg test on my fermenting beer last night i left the hydrometer in the case next to the sink to dry, i got a call today from my wife and she droped and broke it!!!:eek: Im flying blind on this one. my last sg was 1.019 down from 1.052 after 5 days, im supposed to be in the...

wow thanks cheshire, that was almost everything i needed to know about partial mash

im a little illiterate to this forum can i get a link? *edit* DUH stickey right there in front of my face im a little retarded today dont mind me

questions 1 and 3 im mainly asking because i want ot make my wife a strawberries and cream ale. I want it to be a standard, maybee a little lighter bodied cream ale with fresh strawberries in it, i wanted to konw how to sweeten the beer a little without it just getting fermented. i also wanted...

im about to bottle my first brew, a kit brew, and now i want to start making my own recipes. I have a few questions for the master brewers out there 1.) exactly what kind of sugars can the yeast ferment? eg. what sweetener can i add that wont turn to alchohol, and conversely what sugar can i...

i can tell you from experience, your recipe is very similar to one of my favorite microbrews, they get a very flowery/grapefruit flavor by long dry hopping with cascade, as for the lack of bittering, i have no clue

i dont have alot of experience with barleywine, but i also seem to see a lot of cask aging involved in making them

i didnt mean that, i could never be mad at you beer