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I was all set to DH an IPA that I made with Goldings hop plugs. Now mind you the package was open from use a few months back, but it has been in the freezer Anyway it smelled like really nasty cheese. The color looked good, but the smell was putrid. I pitched them. I didn't want a stinky...

Last evening my wife wanted to make a huge amount of pasta sauce for a dish for Christmas Eve. I reluctantly let her use my 20 qt pot I use for brewing. Long story short-she loved the pot, is keeping it, and told me to go get my own for brewing. Now I can get that 8 or 10 gallon pot I've been...

I brewed a coffee porter one time, mis-read the recipe and put in too little coffee. I named it Little Joe Porter.

I made an IPA that was around 8% with English hops, I don't rmember amounts, nor do I have my recipe in front of me, but it was EKG and Fuggles, and it has an assertive hop presence, but those mellower hops really leave the malt shine through also. Well balanced I guess is the best way to...

I know we as brewers often make an RIS with say bourbon soaked oak chips and even perhaps some vanilla, but would it be a crime against nature to do the same thing with a barleywine? I've never seen a recipe as such, but some dark part of my brain tells me it might be quite good. Any input from...

I just made a blackberry mead using frozen store bought balckberries and it is very, very dark. I used 8 lbs of blackberries in 5 gallons, for what that is worth.

Weyerbacher's Simcoe IPA is right up there with my all time favorites.

It's about a 4-1/2 gallon batch. Unfortunately I don't have the kegging capacity to force carbonate. I think I might just use the same yeast I fermented with and give it a whirl- perhaps with just half the batch in case I screw something up. Thank you everyone for your input.

I have a mead that I made back in April which is not sitting in secondary clearing. The person for whom this mead was being made now would like some fruit flavor in it. Can I rack it again onto fruit and just proceed like I would if I had just racked initially to secondary? It was made with 17...

The current gravity is 1.000. Fairly dry for sure. I can't remember what it tasted like to tell you if it was indeed dry. Carbing it is not a necessity. I just thought it might be nice to try it that way. I suppose I could attempt to carb a gallon and see if it works. If not. then at least I...

Sorry I took so long to get back to this-work, family,etc.The recipe was 14 lbs various honeys. The ABV worked out to 13%. I used D-47 yeast. Actually I have not even tasted this thing since my first racking. Hope that helps.

I have a mead that has been sitting in bulk storage for about 11 months. Dare I carbonate it, or would there be enough yeast hanging about to start fermentation again? I really would like to carbonate this particular mead, but if you wise sages suggest otherwise I won't. Please give me any advise.

wet cardboard? That is always the description given for the taste of oxidized beer, but it got me thinking about how many people have actually tasted said item. I for one have not.

I only have 5 AG brews under my belt and I have this recipe for a bitter that calls for 7.5 lb MO and 0.5 lb wheat. I thought I read somewhere one time that you should do a protein rest when using what malt. Do I need to do so with such a small amount of wheat with respect to the amount of barley?

There is a good article on brewing with coffee in the March/April issue of Zymergy.

I read both books before I started making any beer, and I felt that How to Brew was more informative for describing just how to make beer. That being said, The Complete Joy of Home Brewing was good also, and more entertaining

Why not just use a 1" SS braided tube from a water heater supply line. That's what I did and it does not collapse.

Thanks people for the replies.

Assuming I am willing to tie up a carboy for potentially years, how long can you leave a mead to bulk age? Is that even wise, or should you bottle after say a year of bulk ageing? I want to make a mead to celebrate the birth of a first grandchild. My daughter will be marrying in a few months, so...

Does a hydrometer measure just materials dissolved in the wort, or would items that exist as precipitate in the wort also influence the gravity reading? Just a mindless wondering in the shower this AM.