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If this is your first batch of beer I would recommend taking a red ale that is similar to the recipe that you just brewed, popping it open and leaving it somewhere dark for a day or two until it is really really flat. Taste the flat commercial red ale and see how it compares to what you have in...

Did you use the yeast that the recipe called for? Different yeasts will convert different amounts of the sugar in the beer to alcohol (and will produce very different flavors)

It might be good to get some iodine so you can test for starch during your mashing process. It might be overkill but that is how I make sure that the conversion is done (it certainly gives me some peace of mind knowing that my mash completely converted). The test itself is simple, take a small...

I have found that I can get away with not using hop bags at all by using the following method: 1) Turn off heat to the boil kettle 5 minutes early and stir wort gently until a nice big whirlpool starts. 2) Cover wort and wait 5 minutes 3) Take a sanitized wire mesh colander, invert it, and push...

As many others have said, pick a standard kit or recipe to start from and follow the instructions to the letter. Your first brew will probably not be your dream beer, but it will be an incredibly important baseline to start working from. Once you have an idea of what the regular recipe can do...

Buy as many different types of beer as you can and sample them until you find some inspiration for another batch. Peel the labels off the bottles, and get ready for bottling. And brew another batch, the waiting gets harder when the beer is in a bottle.

It is important to remember that when you are making beer you are steeping ingredients and then fermenting them. This will change their characteristics significantly, and it is important to remember that when formulating recipes. For example I have struggled with pumkin beers because the pumpkin...

If you are still interested in the app, try searching for Android accelerometer tutorial. There are a couple out there that should show you how to access that part of the android device, and once you know the x,y,z accelerations due to gravity it should be pretty easy to calculate the phone's...

Well, Android apps run on a special flavor of the JVM - which means that you are restricted to using Java or some other programming language that happens to compile to the JVM that Android happens to use. Java is a language that is often used to teach new programmers how to write programs, so it...

I got into brewing the same way. I have found that brewing a "sacrificial" batch of fruity beer every now and again helps keep my wife from regretting that gift too much. Best of luck and happy brewing!

Was looking for beerXML data and stumbled across some old posts