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This one began life as an oatmeal stout and has become my most requested brew on tap. I have made versions with Zatarain's and with Gnome root beer extract. Both are good but they have different characters. The Zatarain's is a more traditional spicy root beer: less sweet, more spices coming...

I didn't find a thread addressing this, so I'd like to get opinions. I am now kegging most of my brew. I want to be able to take some brew with me to gatherings to share. I've been looking at pressurized growlers like the uKeg 128 and similar, but at that price I could also buy a cannonball...

I want to try a 5 gallon batch of the Copperhead Red Ale in the recipe section here, but I'm worried now that my pot may not be big enough for a full volume mash. (I'm still learning my tools as well) I have an 11 pound grain bill and an 8 gallon pot. I think that Beersmith is telling me that...

Friday night rolled around and I was home from work early. I thought "what a great time to boil up another batch of Belgian Ale" and off I went. Everything went perfectly until it was time for the chiller. I got my son to hold the outlet line while I turned on the water at the faucet...

Yeah, I know, I'm crazy. But... I have a mead that has become stuck at about 1.060 (OG was 1.125) and nothing I have tried has been able to restart the fermentation. It tastes good to me, but then I like sweet. It isn't finished by a long shot and the ABV is somewhere around 8.9% according to...

I just bottled a batch of hard root beer, let it carbonate overnight until the bottles were rock-hard and then pasteurized them using the dishwasher. I don't think I will be using that method again after seeing the results. I'm thinking this was a combination of leaving the bottles too long in...

I've been reading through threads looking for information, sorry if this seems repetitive. I'm using wire top bottles that are similar to EZ Cap, but about $10 less per case from my LHBS. I like the bottles overall, but I have had two batches of Belgian in these bottles where the occasional...

Well, with an extract + grain kit anyway. But still, I just finished my first boil, chilled it down to 78 or so, pitched the yeast and closed it up. Remembered that I need the OG... Opened it up again, take the OG, found it matched the target for the recipe, and closed everything up again...

Hi all, I used to make wine many years ago in college and for a while after. It's been about 30 years since then and I'm just getting started again with my first ever batch of mead. I've made fruit wines in the past, most often a dry apple wine. While the mead is fermenting (just racked it...