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I improved my method during my last batch. I use non-hopped extract so boiling is not an issue. I steep with less water than needed, then add water (cooling the wort), pour the extract in a pot and then start pouring in the boil while stirring. Since the water is not too hot, there is no steam...

Howling Ale is not bad at all, 2 others I really like here are the Ohara Irish Pale Ale and the Rowers

I live in Ireland, I like Murphy's and love Beamish but I really cannot stand Guiness. Not only this is more of a fashion thing over here but they also have pretty aggressive sales methods: My local is the main craft beer bar in town, they have to trade beers for CO2 since Guiness controlls the...

Let's add the fuggles to the list, I really dislike it.

20 minutes boil for 1oz of cascades, I don't think it can be considered as an India. Do you add water later? Your water quantity is not very accurate here.

Rules is a strong word let's say "things you would like to happen and things you don't want to happen". My biggest issue: I live in Ireland, I come from north of France so half of the people I know are Belgian style beer drinkers or Irish red Ale or Stout drinkers. They asked me to give them...

I strongly hate the Saaz. Funnily enough, one of my favourite beers as a teenager was the Jenlain. Then their brewery was bought and I started to dislike the beer not long after, the bitterness was just "off". I guess the fact that they started to use Saaz (common in Alsacian beer) is the...

Don t worry too much about the bubbling, I had some batches bubbling for weeks and another stopped bubbling after 4 days. If your gravity is close to FG and does not change for a few days, you re good to go. Be careful regarding the duration of dry hopping as well, you might get some off...

That would be fair, it would put you in the same situation European homebrewers are! Even if Cascade is quite easy to find, the other ones go from ""not that easy" (centenial, galaxy) to impossible (Nelson, Simcoe...) So I'd love to see what you can do and get some cool recipes for IPAs based...

Hi, So, boiling has several purposes, one of them is to sanitize (pasteurise) everything so it is a good idea to boil the extract and any water that is going to end in the fermenter (it also removes the nasty chlorine taste from tap water). Of course, this means you needs a pot or boiling...

Thanks, I was hoping I could do it before the steeping but I can understand that this would affect the beer.

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I have a similar question regarding DME: I currently add it just after steeping my speciality grain but the steam makes things complicated. I was thinking of adding it earlier (I know it means I will struggle more to dissolve it). Would this affect the taste or are there any issues that would...

During a tour of the Heineken brewery in North of France when I was in my late teens, the tour guide told us that it was not possible to get more than 6.5% ABV in beer by just fermenting it, you need to distil it if you wanted a higher ABV and, therefore, anything more than 6.5% ABV is not...

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I have been reading a bit on TAD here today, it looks like a cool option for people like me who don t have space for a full keg system. On one of the posts, a guy mentioned he was using 8g carts with a 16g setup, he simply cut a 16 cart and put the 8 in it (in order to centre it properly) and...

Cullen: Thanks, great tip, I am definitely trying this next time!!

Anyone remembers the bottle opening scene in Austin Powers? (I could not find the video unfortunately) ;)

Hi Revvy, thanks for your input and I fully understand the "Ask for advices before, not after". Actually, my concern was that the taste of the half bottle was extremely different from the taste of what remained in the bucket (the last centimetre of liquid) which leads me to think that the mix...

This is the very best bottle opener I ve ever used. I am actually wondering if this is not the primary function of this tool ;)