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I got a Speidel Braumeister in 2022. I never signed up for their web storage because it seemed like a bad idea. I just checked, and now I see they offer something called Myspeidel PLUS. You have to pay two Euros per month in order to use their service. I don't recall seeing this when I looked...

I have been watching Clarkson's Farm. I just saw the episode where he opens his second pub, where he sells his Hawkstone beers. He started with a lager, for some ridiculous reason, and it looks like the only ale "he" makes is an IPA. I realize this is technically a British style, but in 2025, it...

I saw an Imperial IPA in the fridge at Walgreen's, and I thought I should give it a try. I had never tried that style before. I picked it up. It's Voodoo Ranger from New Belgium Brewing. It's very clear. Nice head with moderate retention. The aroma seems like any dry-hopped IPA, except there is...

Are Bass Ale and Whitbread considered bitters? For a long time, I've been wanting to try a bitter, but if Bass and Whitbread are bitters, I'm already familiar.

I went out to get a beer from the garage keezer. The temperature is set at 35. The actual temperature was below zero. The display temperature is about 48. The calibration instructions are not great. Is there a way to fix this, or do I need a new Inkbird? I stuck an idle Inkbird on the keezer...

I hate norovirus. I have had it a number of times, and the thing I really hate about it is knowing that the only reason it spreads is that about 60% of Americans don't wash their hands after they poop. I had a freeloading uncle who wanted a free Florida vacation, so he and his family visited us...

Has anyone here tried Real American Beer yet? It must be fantastic, because it's made by Hulk Hogan. I hear every can is strained through his sweaty yellow bikini bottoms. Real American! The beer for manly Americans who like their sports scripted!

The North Korean regime has built a restaurant in Pyongyang, and in addition to food, it serves beer from around the world. This definitely makes up for the emaciated corpses littering the streets.

I brewed a strong ale, and I put aromatic malt in it. I was led to expect some red color, but I don't see it. How much aromatic malt should I put in 5 gallons of beer if I want it to have a red cast to it? I used half a pound in a beer with a 1.086 SG, 13.25 pounds of grain, and two pounds of...

I would like to know what other people do to get clear samples for refractometers. The Smartref instructions say to use a coffee filter. Well, that's great if you're taking one sample. If you're doing multiple samples, you have to use a new coffee filter every time, and you have to clean and dry...

Because I'm drinking my Christmas ale, I decided to Google. Google's Artificial Imbecile seems to think Christmas Ale is a style. A red hue and the usual Pacific Northwest hops, plus spices. Would anyone here consider Christmas ale a style? Maybe not a BJCP style, but a recognizable type of...

I want to try Munich Classic in my 73% wheat ale. I have used WB-06, and it's fine. I thought I might be able to get more cloves and somewhat less banana with Munich Classic. This beer is supposed to be a little like Hoegaarden, but not a clone. I like it a little tart. What's a good...

Is there any support here for strong, sweet beers? My feeling is that usually, bitterness needs to be balanced with sweetness. Not always, because there are bitter beers that taste great without any sweetness to speak of, but more often than not. I also think a strong beer with a lot of alcohol...

Anyone here dry hop with Bergamot? I'm redoing my Christmas Ale. First time, I used Sabro, but it was too much like a pina colada. This time the beer will be dryer, and I mixed Sabro with Magnum for bittering to cut the coconut. I'd like kind of a sharp citrus aroma. I also have Citra.

I have a keezer in my garage. Is it a keezer if it isn't modified? Search me. Anyway, it has no collar. I use picnic faucets. This is not my main keezer, so I kept it simple. When I pour a beer, of course, some beer sticks to the faucet, and sometimes beer dribbles onto other things. I live in...

Today I was trying to pump sanitizing solution from one keg to another when I realized nothing was moving. I opened up the donor keg, and I saw that the dip tube hose was ruptured...on both ends. This tube is supposedly silicone, and it had been sitting in sanitizing solution for months...

I love brewing original beers, but sometimes you need a clone. Is there a good, reliable recipe out there for Flying Dog Snake Dog Ale? It's just an IPA, but the ABV is high, and they claim they use 5 different hops. I don't know if there is really any point in using that many hops. I wonder...

I made a beer somewhere in the ballpark of a quad (1.100), using a fair amount of wheat. The beer is sweeter than I would like, and it has a lot of pineapple flavor, so I'm going to try another version with less Special B, a different set of hops, and some additional junk. The first beer has...

How do people here measure the fermentation temperature of their beer? When I got started back during the early 90s, I assumed that if a recipe said to ferment at x degrees, I was to set the fridge at x and not measure the temperature of the beer. I had no way to check on the beer itself. I...

I was ordering yeast, and I made a ****oo. I thought I was ordering Lallemand Abbaye, and I ended up with BE-256. Is life ruined, or is this pretty much the same yeast?