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Once again! The internet puts yet another bee in the bonnet- it is contributing to my delinquency. I have six hop plants growing now, and have just started studying what types of barley and wheat will grow best in my area. I have an IPA fermenting in a closet, along with a Cooper's lager...

Hi, My first year growing hops. Centennial, Tettnanger, Hallertauer, Willamette. All in pots for now, planning to move to a place that has more light. Currently located in a north-south valley; that means late sun rise (7:30 AM), followed by early sunset. Complicating my hours of sun...

It is so appropriate... after the first attempt over a few years ago (detailed somewhat elsewhere on HBT).... this eve we attempt a second time to get a decent beer. Sold off carboys and equip years ago (2007), thought about MR BEER, then quit thinking about Mr Beer (after a couple of wort...

Ah!!! I am attracted to the noise of ridicule and laughter! Hay is from the grass family, right? So is corn; and in America there were those who used green corn stalks to brew beer; a web search will turn up at least a recipe or two. There's fermentable sugars in them grass family. That's...

Ha! The bottled end product had alcohol in it, but was not recommended for sharing. Dry as cardboard. And tasted just like it, too! Liquid cardboard. The vote was unanimous- Dump it!! I appreciate the responses. This will definitely be a learning experience. The reason I mentioned the...

Hi Justibone, Part of that eruptive episode was the fact that my ass-isstant was directed to get the 6.5 gallon carboy when the boil was ending. It was just dark enough out there that when he came out, I couldn't tell if it was the "big one" or the "smaller one"- I sent him for the big one...

Greetings. OK so after reading the first 51 pages of this thread I feel comfortable with re-starting my brewing experience. It looks like a minimum of 6 weeks for a batch of drinkable beer from this process, so I will get 2 Mr Beer fermenters and have one busy at least most of the...

Yeah. After a few years of moping over my first and only homebrew batch that failed, I have decided to jump back in. Now one must fully understand "failed". The product I gingerly opened and sampled had a wonderful slight cardboard taste, some teasing carbonation, and let me...