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I brewed a coffee stout a few weeks ago. I went a little overboard with the coffee (just under a pound for 5 gallons in a strainer bag in the 2ndary) and tasted it after about an hour and it was horribly bitter. I let it sit for another week and just tasted it and it is still insanely bitter...

I wanted to take a moment to share this story with you guys..and specifically all outdoorsman who think they are invincible to lyme disease...like me prior to last summer. So here it goes: Back in december I started getting these weird panic attacks. Like one minute I would be fine..and the...

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I brewed up a raspberry wit from a wit recipe i brewed up a while back. It tastes surprisingly bitter. Any fruit beer brewers: will this age out or is it just somethign im goign to have to deal with? Other than that I like how it tastes...I know green beer can be a bit bitter...and this is...

So I am doing my first fruit beer since a failed attempt years ago. It is a blackberry wit. I want a slight to moderate blackberry taste. I read someone used 5lbs and it gave an overpowering flavor...anyone have a suggestion how much to use? I am planning on throwing this in the secondary...

So I always do the whirlpool after I immersion chill..and definitely get cold break. I try to siphon away from it...but it seems like if I avoid the cold break I end up losing too much actual beer...so I usually just dump it all in the fermenter. Is there any real downside to doing this/how do...

Here is a small bar I built to house my kegerator. Topped with envirotex lite so it is nice and shiny..although a bit tacky so I may need to recoat it in the future! 3300_545319658089_21800158_32646428_2550596_n pictures from parties photos on webshots

I just pulled a pint of a wit i brewed about 1.5 months ago after not drinking any of it for about 3 weeks. Tastes like a COMPLETELY different beer. Never really experienced this effect to this degree before. The end.

I finally got my double tap tower so I wouldnt have to keep switching the beer line to tap both kegs....hurry!! Rather then use my current beer lines, I used the beer lines that came on the tower...3/16ths at about 4.8 feet. I have my reg at 14psi....and the beer temp is 36.5 degrees. My wit...

Whenever I brew a darker beer I always brew up something a little more to swmbos taste too to be fair. Over last weekend i made up a batch of apfelwein and pitched a white labs cider tube. A few days went by with nothing at the airlock. I figured that the yeast was dead..as I ordered it from...

So i got all my stuff ready to brew today on this nice snowy day. Somehow I managed to forgot to order hops!! I have about 3 oz of hallertau in the freezer from a month or 2 ago. I am brewing a porter which calls for northern brewer and cascade at 60. Could I just use the hallertau instead...

So I built myself a kegerator a few months back with a tap tower with just one tap on it. Obviously things got out of hand and I have a few batches going. The kegerator is big enough to fit 2 cornies in it so I just ordered the goods for that. Anyone know of some sort of adapter that allows...

my brew tonight came out quite short looking despite an accurate amount of water used.....and the gravity was about ten points too high....it was my first time using 5.2 and i did a decoction mash so who knows maybe my eff. really was like 88 percent. I ended up using the dilution calculator on...

im brewing right as we speak....when doing a decoction do i let it sit for the time period...decoct.boil readd and start the timer???? or do i add the full volume..immediately decoct and start boiling while waiting for the allotted time for that step???

So i figured I would report on my wonderful retinal detachment surgery. So i am now 4th day post op. My eye looks pretty bad...as in no white to the eye at all. But hey at least it gives me some street cred! The retina is attached again as of right now and I have no sight loss. We caught it...

So i was diagnosed today with a retinal detachment at the ripe old age of 25. I am having surgery on tuesday to correct this. I am fing freaking out as I have never had general anesthesia or any surgery and am scared ****le$$ of this surgery. Anyone have a detached retina or know someone who...

Anyone know of a recipe for this? I had it once at DFH and since my last wheat failed (first AG with a step mash i completely F'd up)...I promised SWMBO we would brew another wheat once I got a bit more experience.

I got a pony keg from the LHBS a few days back for like 15 bucks and did the conversion. I brewed in it on friday...however realized it needed a ball valve and such. Drilled my hole got a .5 inch bal valve and threaded piece along with a bolt type deal and a rubber gasket. I am a bit worried...

so to make a long story short...my number 2 dog shat in my bed (gotta love em) so while waiting for all my sheets to dry I was surfin around on rogues site thinking of a cool recipe to clone for next time I brew...and was thinkin...how do they create all their styles with one strain of yeast...

Hey all...just figured I would get some peoples outside opinions here. Prior to my move to my new apartment I lived in a house which was converted to apartments. The house had a common entrance and each of the apartments was secured by its own locked door. This house was in a pseudo sketchy...