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When brewing goes smoothly it is wonderful and relaxing. When brewing goes wrong it is a time of irrational questioning panic and terrified paranoia. This story falls into the latter category. My brew buddy and I whipped up a batch of Belgian IPA from extract and went through the usual steps...

I got the kit below from a friend for my birthday. Unfortunately I have no lagering equipment. It has instructions for fermenting as an ale but I am not sure how well those will work especially as the basement is a constant 68 degrees. So my questions: 1) Is there a way to lager this without...

So I want to do a Hennepin Ommegang clone and figured the best way to succeed would be to pick up a couple of bombers and harvest the yeast from it (verified that bottle and primary strain are identicle). I followed the rule of 1 g of DME to 10ml and made a 50g 500 ml starter. Unfortunately...

Brewed up Midwest Supplies' Octane IPA and bottled on 7/24. Starting was 1.068 and ending was 1.018. Bottled with 5oz of corn sugar and it has been conditioning at 70 since for just over 6 weeks now. As of now there are some that are very flat while others are actually pretty solid. With...

My buddy and I mad the Advantageous Weizenbock extract kit from Northern Brew today and made a mistake. Instead of adding the Hersbrucker hops at 15 minutes, we added them at 45 incorrectly. What impact will this have on it overall...