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I've made a couple beers now but always followed recipes and now I want to try and craft my own but don't know where to start really. I'm thinking I wanted to do a stout and brew it with maple syrup and hazelnuts but I have no idea what grains I should use, how much hops, or how much maple syrup...

So sometimes I may a hooch drink for my friends which is typically table sugar, water, yeast nutrient, and distiller's yeast for high alcohol content. This time I used dextrose and did everything the same but my yeast for some reason isn't taking off like normal. It was in a sealed vacuum bag...

Saturday everyone.

So I pitched my yeast, no starter, three days ago in a stout recipe I'm following with an OG of 1.056 which I hit right on the nose. The FG for the recipe is 1.017 and I'm at 1.018 now after 3 days. Should I rack to my secondary now or wait longer because I have to add vanilla beans and oak...

This is the stout I just brewed 2.5 days after pitching the yeast. That brown clumpy stuff that's floating is grain that made it into my fermenter(first all grain). The krausen looked good yesterday and was getting pretty large but it also had the grain in it and now has settled down to a very...

5 gallon og= 1.056, fg= 1.017 ibu=52 srm=61 8lbs. 1oz. 2 row pale 6.5oz. carapils malt 15oz. munich malt 10oz.crystal maly (40L) 6oz. rauchmalz 6.5oz. wheat malt 10oz. chocolate malt 12oz. roasted barley (500L) 1.9oz perle 7%aa (60 mins) 1.6oz. willamette 5%aa (5 mins) wyeast...

So I don't have a mash tun and don't want to have to buy one so here's what I plan to do, tell me if this will be sufficient: I plan to use a pot and heat the water to 168F and then add in my grain, stirring it in and letting it sit for an hour with insulation and shooting for 154F as my mash...

So I've been doing some research on infection in beers...my airlock blew off last night due to adding muscat grape juice concentrate as per my recipe and I'm kind of worried about it. It really doesn't look any different than when it started but this is after 4 days of fermenting: So does...

I've just started so sorry if this is a stupid question, but I intend on my second beer being an oak barrel stout clone(my first beer I used the syrup) and wanted to know which of these following grains from the recipe I will have to mill? 8lbs. 1oz. 2 row pale 6.5oz. carapils malt 15oz...

Well I've decided to pick up brewing as a hobby and have started my first beer which was a midas touch clone using the recipe and instructions I found on this site. It's in the primary right now and seems to be doing great. I'm looking forward to learning more about brewing and hope to one day...