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Hey everyone. I'm wondering where to buy lactose (milk sugar). I live in Canada, and I don't have a LHBS nearby. Is it available at health food stores or anywhere else? The reason I ask is because I'm finding the apfelwein I made to be too dry/tart/puckery. I understand adding lactose...

Dog Stopper Ale?

Hey all, Thanks for the input. I received an email today from the website, quoted below... "I am so sorry! We haven't had this happen before - even with loosely packed bags of grain. We will definitely use packing material for loose boxes in the future and I am sorry that your order has...

Hey HBTers. I have a bit of a quandary. I ordered 10 lbs of vienna malt and 5 lbs of 10 deg crystal from a website here in Canada with plans to make some Edwort's Haus pale ale. My shipment arrived looking like this. All the bags of grain (ziploc, with no tape or ANY packing material) had...

Specialty grains... hoses (different sizes, silicone as well as vinyl), airlocks, carboys, sanitizer, corn sugar, bottle caps, hops, yeast (do they have wyeast?), DME Did I miss anything? What's the place called? I'm in Vernon a lot these days.

Another British Columbia brewer here! Was in Vancouver until a month ago. Now I'm in Kamloops. Denny, is there a homebrew shop in Kelowna or Vernon? I'm dying out here! Luckily I'll be driving past Gambrinus for the next couple months.

Just like everyone else, I took pictures of my first AG brew session. Let's hear what you think. I did a pale ale, named it "Newton's Not-So-Pale Ale". Here's the brew pr0n! Things I learned from my first AG: 1. I'm going to build a fly sparge manifold (we lost the end-cap from the SS...

Maybe you could add water and dry hop at the same time to balance it out. OR you could boil some hops in a few cups of water to get the bitterness your looking for. It's a great chance to experiment. I would definitely say DON'T DUMP THE BEER. Save a couple bottles (if you're a bottler) and...

I just put a small kitchen sponge in a saucer and dribble a little milk on it. Dab the label on the sponge, apply to bottle, and bob's your uncle.

I did this too. The off-flavours created by esters were definitely noticeable (simulated banana flavour?). I found that if i made the extra effort to chill the wort sufficiently at yeast pitching time, those flavours were lessened. My fermentation was still kind of warm, though. If your tap...

The beer should be fine... if it gets past the customs officers at the border.

I found the extract + steeped grain brews near the heater in my house actually conditioned faster than the same brew at my friend's house which is cooler. We opened one of each at the same time and mine was nicely carbed and his was almost flat and didn't taste as good. Granted it's not a...

I don't like un-fruited lambic. I would not drink it if offered. I like IPA's but I once had a beer with IBU's so far off the chart that I threw up. Aside from those exceptions I'll drink most anything put in front of me. And I'll try anything once. I've had garlic beer, chili beer, pepper wheat...

Yay 10s! My first AG will be set up for 10 gallons. Why bother with 5?

Yeah, I'm gonna try getting a dog first, if I ruin the dog then I'll know that kids aren't for me (don't tell SWMBO). Has anyone's dog ever messed up their brew?

I agree that you should name your brews based on something that happened during the brew sesh. We name our beers buddha-something (we called ourselves buddha-brewing) a couple examples: Black-hole buddha stout (it was really really dark) Buddha's Dirty Bung (wheat beer, we learned to use a...

I'm getting Gambrinus because I drive past the maltster on my way to work, and it's the only british-style malt available at my LHBS. I would get MO if they had it. Same for the 2-row. It should still end up tasting like beer, right?

Me and my buds made a coffee porter. We brewed ~1/2 gallon of coffee with a full pound of espresso beans and added it to the primary (5 gallon batch). It had enough of a caffeine kick to be noticeable. I would drink that stuff on holidays up at the lake after breakfast. A perfect transition...

OK, so the Vancouver LHBS may not be so bad... the selection of ingredients is good, but the gear is nearly non existent. I went in there for a bottling bucket (or a spigot) and the guy said "we don't sell those, because you should siphon when you bottle". For burners and kettles, he'll just...

Breathing some life into this dead thread... hopefully Gambrinus is the only british style base malt that I can get in bulk from my LHBS. It's from a small maltster in British Columbia, Canada. I've never used it (never brewed AG, actually), but I think I'll get a bag since it's CHEEP (40 bucks...