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I want to brew a Mild for march madness, but I've got a question. I have a wide diameter brew kettle and tend to boil off about 1.25 gallons an hour. It's a vigorous boil, but not jumping out of the kettle or anything. My normal boil volume for a 6 gallon batch is around 7 gallons. But is...

So, I brewed a sort of Winter Warmer/Old Ale a couple of weeks ago. I tasted it tonight and it's OK, but I think it's needs some more character. Right now, it's just sort of sweet and slightly estery. I've added the recipe below, so I'm wondering if some of you might have some advice for...

So I've got some leftover grains from a recent brew sessions and I'd like to use them up. This is what I have: 4 oz. Special B 4 oz English medium crystal 12 oz English Chocolate 4 oz. Golden Naked Oats Ideally, I'd like to make something both hoppy and malty, maybe a winter warmer or...

I made two starters at once yesterday: 3L of 001 and 1.5 of 007, so 4L total of starter wort. The 1.5L starter with 007 and it never built up a krausen . None at all (it's been 22 hours ago now). The "best by" date on the 007 was October 20, 2012, so I think it was 6 weeks old or so. I make...

I just harvested some WLP 002 from a 1.054 pale ale and I'm hoping to use it in a 1.060 ESB this week. I've been reading up on yeast harvesting and rinsing, and what I just got looks different than what I expected to see. I thought I'd see trub on the bottom, creamy yeast in the middle, and...