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So, I want to do an apple cider with a strong bourbon and peach character... you guys got any good recipes or advise? Thanks!

Hi guys. I have some extra room in my brewing system to do a 5 gallons of mead. I've decided on a mead with Black Currants, Blackberries, and Blueberries. Please look over the recipe i have in mind and make sure i'm not crazy.....I'm looking for it to finish Dry with a high ABV, but plan to...

So I know I only post when I'm about to come home. But I'm coming up on my last rotation. Last time I was home (about 12 months) I brewed up a Hard Cider. My wife reports that it has turned out dry, but very refreshing. and tragically while my wife was moving us into our new home, my 6 gallon...

Ok, so I have been wanting to make a mead (well get one right anyway) for a long long time. My 1st attempt was a black berry mead that ended...poorly. But I think i figured out where i went wrong. Now I'm going to try my hand at a Cyser for Thanksgiving 2015 Here is what I've come up with...

so has anyone ever forgotten to add the aroma hops? am i ok just dry hoping it? or did i just screw myself? its a brown ale that i want to come out sweeter then normal so it ws just .5 of bittering hops, and .5 of aroma hops? any thoughts? -Tony-

ok so i had to stop brewing beer so i could free up some money for the wedding (aug 5tyh by the way) and we have gotten back into brewing reckless abandon! my wife just bottled her 1st batch yesterday and im brewing my 1st all grain batch sense last march! i feel a little rust at this but its...

So i just transferred my blackberry mead to the secondary. and it smells like rotten fruit. but it taste ok. should i be worried?

ok so this dude at my local home brew club had a chocolate mint porter and it was so freaking tasty but the problem is hes alittle up tight about his recipies which i get alittle... so how would you guys go about it? fresh mint in boil or even primary fermenter? or go with an extract?

ok so i want to do Vanilla Porter would you guys boil the beans int he boil? or pasteurize them and put them in the primary fermenter and if you do, how do you keep the flavor of the bean during pasteurization? i was figuring on boiling in whole beans, and adding extract to the primary what do...

Ok so this is why i love my brew store. after getting the OK from the mrs. i went into the store and said "steve, the wife said i can brew, i have no idea what i wanna make. " 2 hours later we figured out i wanted to do a stout. so here is what we came up with, its a clone of Samuel smith's...

ok so its my 1st all grain im doing a cream ale, lightly hopped. anyway im noticing a hell of alot more bubbling then normaly happens. is that....uh normal for all grain vs. extract?

so 1st benefit making beer has endeared me to my soon to be father-in-law you know who wants a tie on fathers day when you can get homebrew 2nd. great beer on demand. nuff said. 3rd. ive noticed people want to be my friend more...not sure if thats a benefit 4th on the hand, ive meet...

So i just bottled this morning, and now im wishing that mankind had perfected time travel... :mug: take the beer from my hand young grasshopper :mug:

ok so i just brewed up a nice heff, and i added the hops .5 oz of saaz im using hop pellets for the 1st time and my beer went from a nice yellowish/brown to green when i added the hops! its in the primary and its still green! has this happened to anyone else? dose it go away? have i stumbled on...

Anyone know of a good one?

So i wanna do labels for my up coming basset hound brown. anyone know a good program that will let me make my own, free would be best but id be willing to spend some money. thanks! :mug: Take the beer from my hand Young Grasshopper :mug:

last time i posted i was in iraq, well i got back, got out of the army got engaged and talked my wife to be into home brewing! so life is good for the ol'beerninja!

well im back from leave...and man was i smashed i think San Diego is going to be alittle short on beer...nah but it was fun. and i should be out of this god forsaken country (iraq) in descember. and then i can make my own beer agine! BEER NINJA!:mug:

So ive been living on a diet of St. Paulies NA and Hollisters (na) and beef jerky (you would be serprised how much wight ive lost) and ill have to say, after having such low beer standerds thease past few months when i go him Feb. for leave ill really really really injoy my 1st micro brew from...

:( ok so i just deployed to iraq for the next 15 months and the closest thing im going to get to beer is near beer. . . so anyone have sugestions on which near beer dosnt tast like crap and which one comes close to flavor of beer. (i tryed to sumggle my homebrewing supplies but my platoon...