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My latest brew is a coffee stout and I've been hit with an inspiration to add Kahlua in the secondary. Is this a good idea? I'm adding cold brew coffee as soon as I transfer to the secondary, but I'm trying to determine when would be best to add Kahlua. I imagine that there is sugar in that...

Anyone have a good recipe for Polaris hops? I bought 3 lbs for $25 and need an excuse to brew with them.

Every year I make my family and friends a batch of home brew for Christmas. My in-laws have always given me their bottles back and asked me to fill them back up on my next batch, so this year I got custom stainless steel growlers made for them. The only problem is that the batch I filled them...

So, I've just started using Beersmith, but I've only used it for some extract brews. So far, I've done 2 recipes and both seem a fair amount off from what Beersmith estimates. First, the FG of a Coconut Cream Porter either seems off, or I vastly underpitched my yeast. Here's the recipe...

Does Lactose factor into how much yeast is required to be pitched? For example, if I have a wort with lactose at an OG of 1.066, should I still factor how much yeast cells are necessary for that OG since Lactose is not fermentable? Will that OG still require more cells than is typical in a...

This might be crazy, but I've been inspired to try to brew a mint kolsch. I've been wanting to brew something with mint, and this time of year in Texas, a kolsch seems like a nice refreshing beer to have on tap. Has anyone tried this or have a good recipe?

Howdy homebrewers, I'm hoping that you collective group of homebrew geniuses have a better education of thermodynamics than I do. I live in Texas and gets hot as hell around this time of the year. We're already pushing 100 degrees. I have an insulated shed where I keep a mini fridge hooked up...

Despite being told that Strawberries are tough to work with, I went for a Strawberry Wheat anyway. I bottled about a week ago and cracked one open last night for a tasting. It's only been a week, but it tastes pretty tart. Maybe it will subside and I'm not sure if it's a wild bacteria or just...

I whipped up an American Wheat Beer Extract recipe a few days ago and, while I've got it in the primary for the next two weeks or so, I decided to make some homemade strawberry extract. I bought 2 lbs of fresh organic strawberries from Costco, and to my frustration, two days later they...

Yesterday I did my third brew ever, making a vanilla caramel cream ale, and everything went great until after I pitched the yeast. I have a refrigerator that I converted into a fermentation chamber with a thermostat controller to control the temperature. Well for some reason, the fridge decided...