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I brewed an Irish Stout kit from Midwest and bottled all but one gallon. To that one extra gallon, I added a cup (8 oz) of French press-brewed coffee (a medium roasted Costa Rican I think) after primary fermentation. Didn't turn out as well as I expected, just had a strange bitter/sour flavor. I...

Oh, the good ol' days. When one of my friends (who is from India) found out I made wine, he asked me if "put it in a pot and buried it in a hole in the ground".

Over-priced eduacation? ****, why am I in college again? I think any of the books mentioned would be good. I am currently reading "How To Brew" by John Palmer.

I started out making fruit wine, mead and cider, and have now gotten into beer. I have yet to make a wine from actual Vitis vinifera grapes or juice, though I really want to make a batch soon.

.pdf file about the beer Novozyme (people who manufacture the enzymes) webpage Wow...an 8% reduction in CO2 emissions. What about the emissions created from the production of the enzymes? Producing and purifying enzymes is not a trivial process, and requires a fair amount of energy and...

I think the boiling points of methanol and ethanol are close enough that trying to boil off any methanol will also remove a significant percent of your ethanol. Simply boiling your beer in a kettle, you won't be able to get an accurate measurement of the temperature of the vapors coming off. You...

I've made one cider so far (from juice from the grocery store) and it was delicious (1 gallon lasted for just one week after bottling). I would love to get 5 gallons of fresh juice, but I don't know of any orchards near me.

I just bottled an extract stout (Irish Stout from Midwest) that had an FG of 1.018. This is supposed to be a dry stout (like Guinness) but it ended up quite sweet and heavy-bodied. I've heard the dark malt extracts are supposed to have lots of unfermentable sugars in them, so maybe that's the...

Will be graduating from Michigan Tech in May 2010 with a BS in Biology (Microbiology), and minors in Biochemistry and Bioprocess Engineering (I have to take one chem eng class, so that makes me an engineer :p).