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So I just harvested some of my home grown hops, and after drying I have 2 ounces Chinook and 4 ounces Cascade. My goal is to make a pale ale utilizing all the hops at different phases of the process. Ideally I want a firm bitterness upfront with plenty of hop flavor and aroma as well. My recipe...

Thanks for the feedback, I forgot to mention earlier that I had already ordered the ingredients so I didn't really have any way to modify it. Brewed it up yesterday and it's fermenting now

Have you used triticale before? This is my first time.

I've harvested and frozen 3 pounds worth of wild blackberries recently and want to use them as an addition to my next beer. It's going to be a simple wheat beer consisting of 6 lbs pale ale 2 lbs white wheat .5 lb triticale (hybrid of rye and wheat) 3 lbs frozen blackberries in secondary .5...

Blackberry is a good option as well, they are coming in season now too if you’re in the south anyway

Any know of a quality brand for a picnic tap and what length tubing I should get?

I don’t think so, I bottled in the garage with the door open, but keep the beer in the shaded area. Then it does right back inside in boxes stashed in the closet.

Fermentation went well, or so I thought anyway. OG 1.050, FG 1.010, it was in primary for 11 days, then bottled. starting at 66 degrees for week, then moved it to a warmer room where it got to 74. Pitched one rehydrated pack of US 05. I’ve used 05 plenty in the past and never had this problem...

Thanks for the input, I didn’t really check the date on the hops and just assumed they were fine. I’ll know for next time though.

Recently made a rye pale ale, I've used this same grist several times before, but this time I used different hops and did a dramatically different hop schedule, 60 minute boil. The reason I think it's the hops is because the rest of my brew day went fine, nothing in my process was flawed as far...

Thanks for the insight, gravity is still the same so I think I’ll bottle soon.

Something I forgot to mention before was that when I originally discovered this issue the beer was in another carboy, and there was a much more noticeable layer of mold/gunk sitting on top of the beer, this was after a month sitting in the original carbooy. When I saw it I immediately...

Haven’t actually tasted it yet, reckon I should do that though. OG was about 1.080 with lots of roasted and crystal malt. I’ve made this same recipe before and it finished at about 1.016

No special flavor additions, but lots of roasted and crystal malts though

I recently discovered my latest imperial stout was infected, most likely due to a stuck fermentation that I didn’t catch in time. Gravity was at 1.030, so I pitched more yeast to see if I could finish fermentation and maybe have a passable sour on my hands instead of dumping it straight away...

After doing some more research I think I will do some type of split using an american ale yeast and some type of Belgian. I've never done a Biere de Garde so that's at the top of the list for now.

There's a homebrew competition in my area coming up and I'd like to enter a couple of things. I was thinking of doing a 5 gallon batch but splitting the wort and using two different yeast strains to make separate beers. So my question is what would be a good recipe to use that would enable me to...

A brewing buddy of mine recently gave me a big bag of Centennial, so I immediately went out and bought the grains to make a Two Hearted clone. The next day he brings me another a couple of other bags of Amarillo and Jade. I've made the Two Hearted before, so I was thinking about mixing it up...

This is the second year I've been growing hops (Chinook and Cascade) and I had enough to do an entirely wet hop beer. I put together my recipe on bewersfriend like I typically do, being sure to select fresh in the drop down menu for what type of hop I'm using. I was planning on making an IPA, so...

So it's been in the fermentor 10 days now, checked the gravity this morning and it's 1.010. As soon as the I took the lid off the fermentor I got nice whiff of orange, so it smells great. I pulled a small sample into a tulip glass, gave it a swirl and the orange is the most prominent aroma for...