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I'm planning to try brewing a gruit. I had a local pharmacy make me a tea of herbs: Yarrow, Mugwort and Wormwood, equal parts of each. Unfortunately, turns out I didn't do my homework! I just read that Wormwood is astoundingly bitter and is used in much smaller amounts than the two other herbs...

Just whipped up a small batch of something I might call multi-graf: 1.5L organic 90% apple / 10% pear juice ~1L multifruit juice (mostly apple/orange with like 15% of tropical fruit :( but hey it's something) ~1L beer wort boiled for maybe 15 minutes, with a few pellets of Pilgrim hops @...

I'm looking into mead, and I see that it takes a *lot* of aging, which makes sense since it is wine strength. But what about a small mead? Approximately beer strength, 5-7% ABV? I assume it would take less time... What do you think?

I just brewed up something, but I have no idea how to call it. Hooch? Bastard cider? ~2L unfiltered apple juice 1L ananas juice 1/2 a cup of honeys (finished my honey remains - 100% pure honey) with a generous dollop of maple syrup a few pellets of Comet hops mixed all this with some...

Hi there, I got some Pacific Gem and I'm planning on using them as the main bittering hop in a strongly bitter/hoppy beer. Now I am wondering what best to pair them off with, thought I'd seek some feedback from the community. Batch size will be a little under 20L. OG should be around 1.067...

For my 3d non-kit brew, I decided to try graf, a hybrid recipe of beer and cider. I'm certain people have been brewing things like this for ages, but the word "graf", and the popularity of the brew, comes from a work of fiction, The Dark Tower by Stephen King, where it is described as "strong...