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The guy at the brewery store should have sold you a copy of www.howtobrew.com. As has been stated before, this should be required reading for you. Either read that website or go back to the brew store and buy the most recent edition of the book if he has a copy, or order it from Amazon. If you...

The axe has fallen on Northern Brewer's Minneapolis store. Just got back from there to see what's the deal with the 30% off clearance sale this weekend and got the bad news. Sacks of grain were flying out the door. I picked up a ton of hops because that's about all that was left already. I'm so...

The wife is playing Borderlands 3 so to avoid spoilers I've spent the day in the kitchen brewing a wheat beer and pitched a teensy amount of Tormodgarden kveik. Based on the flavor of the starter I made, this is going to be one hell of a refreshing beer! Nailed all my numbers and was the fastest...

I'm a full-time daddy so I guess most of my hobbies of binge-watching Sesame Street and Pokemon and wiping poop from a two-year-old are really more of a job. I also bake artisan breads, do food photography as a side gig, I'm somewhat of an audiophile & headphone enthusiast (I've built a few tube...

Probably because all kit instructions say to use a secondary, despite it not being necessary unless you're putting your beer on top of fruit or something). You're probably just seeing clusters of bubbles from CO2 coming out of solution but some clearer pictures would help.

I'm curious about this too!

I woke up some dried Tormodgarden kveik in a starter for a 6-pack sized test brew this weekend. Still undecided on hops.

I'm really excited to hear how this turns out! I'll cross my fingers for ya :)

According to BYO, 1 pound of LME equals very approximately 1.3 cups. 1 pound of LME yields around 36 points in a gallon, or a gravity of 1.036. 8 pints = 1 US gallon. Therefore 1 pint of starter wort would need 1.3 cups / 8 = 0.1625 cups or about 2.5 tablespoons of LME.

Welcome, fellow Minnesotan! There is tons of useful info and soooo many helpful people here.

Welcome! (also from Minneapolis!)

My wife loves White Claw now. We didn't even know what this stuff was until we tried some at a party a couple months ago. My mouth got bored really fast. I'd rather have a vodka tonic made with good tonic or better yet, a well-made Mexican mule.

When your wife is introduced to a new employee at work... Wife: Homebrewer? New guy (astonished): How did you know? Wife: You smell like my husband!

^ That's what I did to get my correction factor (1.04) for my cheapo generic ebay refractometer. Coincidentally, it's the same as Sean Terrill's calculator default.

I drank the gravity sample I took for my American wheat using Voss kveik at roughly 40 hours post-pitch. Sure, it was only 1.019 so far but I could have drank a full glass of it already! This is my first kveik ferment and I'm already thinking about which jars of yeast slurry I can toss down the...

I was just thinking about making a stout with kveik! Which strain are you using? Oslo?

I love Aussie humor and watch a good bit of Aussie TV. After watching all 11 seasons of MasterChef Australia I can even tell what part of the country some people are from. Or if they're from Taz or NZ. Anyways, good video :)

Huh, that's really interesting!

I made the mistake of eating some homemade vanilla ice cream last night before I drank a bottle of my rye ale that normally has boatloads of flavor. All I could taste was bitter water... a hard lesson learned. What are some other foods that totally ruin your beer drinking experience?

For Labor Day I'm going to brew a simple American wheat with Omega Voss Kveik. I'm excited to see what this yeast can do!