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Pistil by Magic Hat. Just horrendous. Tasted like spit. Sent from my LG-D800 using Home Brew mobile app

Middle Ages Winter Wizard Ale.... like soap and Old Milwaukee Light and some stale spices. Horrifying.

Maybe this will help soothe your nerves for the next batch: I repeatedly sanitize my hands while brewing about 1/2way up my arm. In between every step, I grab a small spritz bottle and blast my hands a few times, shake them off, and continue. ESPECIALLY if I, in an emergency, have to use a...

We're buying a house right now with very large 15x30 deck off of the kitchen/dining room. I feel like I should convert to deck brewing just for convenience, keep moisture in the house down, and to just be outside in the few months that aren't death winter up here. Thanks for the info, all.

Going nuts and throwing stuff like caraway and pepper into a ryePA is what makes homebrewing special. Keep it up. Let us know how it all comes out.

There's nothing on the yeast packets, but there is a specific yeast written out for each recipe in the book. Of course, this varies by recipe. BBS was my first brew, ever. I wanted to skip extract altogether in the beginning. I did the Chocolate Maple Porter. It's pretty roasty. I boiled off...

Well, if the Tea Party's secession movement goes through...New Amsterdam! I'm in the Syracuse area. Can't be any less depressing than Binghamton.

Hello all, I just started homebrewing in January '14 after realizing almost everything my buddies brewed by themselves was better than what was on the shelves in the store. My first batch was a 1-galloner of a maple-flavored porter, and I enjoyed the process so much that I brewed another...

I have a 1 gallon all-grain recipe you can follow. Extremely easy test-batch, or you can scale it up to 5 gallons rather easily.