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My LHBS has an English mild on draft with cocoa puffs incorporated. When I saw the tag with "cocoa puffs mild" written on it I was skeptical to say the least. However, it was one of my favorite beers I've had in a long time. So I should disclose that the idea of this recipe belongs to the owner...

I've recently switched to a larger boil kettle and haven't quite tuned in hitting a perfect final volume of 5.5 gallons. My questions is how do you all do this? I see there being two choices. A) I could do a test boil for an hour with 6 gallons and then measure exactly how much boiled...

Will you guys please help me understand which types of oak are generally used for what types of beers. My understanding is light to medium toasted oak barrels are the norm for aging wine in and charred oak is the norm for aging whiskeys in. What kind of flavor is a light to medium toast...

I have read so many mixed reviews about summit hops and people saying they've ruined entire batches of brew with a horrible onion flavor that I'm really hesitant to use them. I just bought a half pound on my latest hop order and was pumped to use them in an American style wheat beer to get...

I've learned a lot about CO2 tanks over the last couple years of brewing and jsut recently when upgrading my setup. Thought I'd share so anyone looking to buy a CO2 tank or upgrade to a bigger one has some things to think about so hopefully you don't learn them the hard and expensive way as...

I read an article or thread sometime ago (years ago) that was talking about some homebrewers using a single yeast, usually something like a california ale yeast, for almost every different beer they made, and with relatively great success. The idea being that you could ferment ales in their...

How's it goin everyone? I've been a long time reader here in the forum and decided I would do some contributing with my first recipe I created. There were a couple other threads about this beer with no real results posted so here is my journey... c/p from Ithaca's website: Flower Power...