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No did not save the koji. I bought the rice at the Chinese grocery an order the spore o line. I steamed the rice and used the oven to incubate the koji.(30 hrs)

I tried my Sake that I made last Feb. I bought a bottle of sake from a commercial sake brewer in Toronto and we did a taste test. The Store bought Sake was sweeter and my homemade sake was a touch sour. (My wife's defections ) Both very nice one was not better than the other. A surprise for...

I have 3 hop bines I bought 2 from a nursery and I found one growing wild at my archery club I took it home and planted it in a 20 gallon container. The sotre bought bines are 2 years old and doing poorly very mall cones. The wild hop is 20 feet high with big cones. I want to use them do I...

picts of hops after hot spell

Will send pics

We went on vacation and when I returned my hop bines look bad. The leaves are brown some have holes in them. Two of the bines are from last year I planted 4 but only 2 survied the winter. I found a wild hop plant at my archery club and took some of the root home. I planted this away from the...

I have been brewing with all grain for some time now. My last 3 brews have all come out the same sg. 1.069 I went on Brewfather and entered in the ingredients and Brewfather gave me a est/. SG of 1.055. I would like to brew a lighter abv but am unsure of how to gauge the abv. I know "add...

Sake racked into seconday tried a bout 4 Oz very good for a drink just out of the fermentor. floral and a little fruity. no idea of the % alochol seems stong. 15% maybe.

I would like to try and carbonate my beer in the keg but don't know what to do. I read somewhere to halve the priming sugar. and wait 2 weeks. any help would be great.

Canada with 8 months of winter and 4 months of bad weather

Up date. The Beer from Hell is in the keg and it is very good. A bit hazey but so it goes. Two friends stopped by and raved about the beer. I am not going to try to reprodce this brew however 😂

In keeping with things I have not yet tried like the time I brewed beer with hot rocks, made the honey, grape and barley drink Midas Touch, made mead and of course the pine tree soda (very good) I am now going to make sake for the first time. I have been a martial artist for many years and we...

I have heard about stuck mash, read about it, even watched a Youtube video about it. Now I have lived it. OMG! I bought a grain mill (Cereal Killer 2 rollers) I set it up with a chargecard and ground 12 pound of grain. I got my Brewzilla out, heated the water snd mashed in. Ah, all was...

;) Concoction #52 was a mix of left over wort from an Irish Red ale, Some DME, and the jucie of apples found by the side of the road. (note* not "Road Apples") I kegged it and had a bout 3 gallons in the keggerator. My son in law is from Belgium he tasted it , loved it, drank it all. What a...

I used 1 oz E Kent goldings at 60 min and again one oz E K Goldings at 30 min. The grist was a little fine. My first time grinding my own grain. A bit of a stuck mash but worked through it. I used Kveik yeast YEAST - LALBREW VOSS KVEIK 11G. Fermented at 67 F. on day 6 the sg 1019. The...

My son in law who came over from Belgium helped me make anothr Scrap Ale. We took what ever malt that had not been used thios year and brewed another Scrap Ale. We did this the last time the kids came over from Europe. B&S (Bill And Sam )Scrap Ale. This year it's B&S Boxing Day Scrap Ale...

I opened one of my 7 bottles of the Midas Toudhish concoction today. It was very good. I made this brew with White Condord gapes, local honey and DME. I added to it hops grown in my back yard, yarrow from my hunt camp, saffron ( a gift from my daughter in Spain) and some Saaz hops. I only...

Well Sir, One can have both. I enjoy the Bufalo Trace