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No, not the infusion-mash method... I've been infusing some wines on the side and i've really liked the results. I got hooked after I first tried this recipe: Orange Wine - Saveur.com Now i've made a few including white white with lemon and thyme; rose with orange and sage; red wine with...

to work today? Just so they could brew? I meant to brew on Sunday and use the yeast cake from last weeks brew, but never had any time. So I called in sick with a sore throat just so I could finish this brew.... ahh.... I hope retirement will be like this.... too bad I have 30 more years to...

So I've now begun tasting my cider from earlier this fall. It's 5 gallons unpastuerized, unpreserved new hampshire cider from the orchard a little up the road from my house. I used whatever natural yeast was in there, stuck an airlock on it and waited. After a few weeks I tossed in some...

I'm going crazy due to some severe impatience... So I have my first cider bubbling away in the basement, the cider came from the orchard down the street. It went from a crusher straight to my carboy (which they let me fill up). So its bubbling away using the good ole new hampshire strain of...

So I have family that support my brewing by buying the Mr. Beer extracts. Great sentiment, not exactly what I have in mind however. So whats the best way to reuse these? I have a few that are unhopped and just pure malts. I usually make smaller test batches out of them. But what about the ones...

So I just spent last weeked in the finger lakes of NY and one of the wines I tried for the first time was a riesling ice wine. Its much more potent, almost 40% according to the server. With ice wines they leave the grapes on the vine well into the winter until it is frozen. Then they crush and...

I had made a post a few weeks back, got some feedback on the idea of a peanut butter porter and now its made! The peanut butter doesn't taste like peanut butter as in JIF or Skippy. Because I used an all natural peanut butter (only peanuts, no salt, no additives) it actually tastes...

Looking for a good brown porter recipe that would work well with peanut butter. I was thinking of the following: 5lbs. pale liquid malt 1lbs. crystal 60L 8oz. black malt 4oz. roasted barley 10oz. chocolate malt 2oz Fuggles 6oz. Peanut Butter I talked to my LHBS and he mentioned a...