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I've got a 2200w element in my "boiling bucket". I'm going to put another one in. I brew with BIAB, and during the test run, the element weakened the bag to the point of rupturing, spilling a small amount of grain which burned into the element. I've got to prevent this somehow, like, by...

I'm a HUGE fan of rye beer. Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye is one of my favourite beers. I like just about every beer style there is, but I was thinking I'd make a rye ale of some kind my next all-grain project. Rye IPA:s are good, I know that. Rye ESB? Could be good. Rye stout? No idea, any...

All right, once they are ready from the garden, I'm going to rack my beer on top of some plums. Not sure exactly how much yet. Now, the question is, how to treat them? When I made plum wine, I just diced them up, removed the kernels, and that worked well. I'll probably have to freeze them...

All right, after putting together my marvellous brewing machine from a fermentation bucket, a kettle element and some silicone, I set out on my quest to make a Dirty Monk Golden Strong Ale. I learned many things during all of this. The mashing went... so-so. I don't have a thermostat yet, so I...

Hi, it's been a while. I'm still in the game, just busy with other stuff. Last year I made a plum wine with plums from my own garden, which is just about now getting drink-ready. It's pretty fantastic (or at least was when I bottled it a week ago) though the clearing process was a hassle. I'm...

Yep, soon I will have finished the necessary equipment. So, the question comes - what should I make? Initially I thought of making a dark lager, but it doesn't look like it's getting cold enough yet, so I'll have to wait with that. So I'm thinking maybe a nice English ale, something in the...

In the wonderful book "Bröd" by Jan Hedh, I found a nice recipe - beer bread. Recipe called for Guinness but recommended any good beer - I used my pale ale. It's a regular mixed grain (Rye and wheat) bread, with 50% beer instead of water, and a topping of rye and beer...

So I recently got the report from the tests run on my drinking water from my commune (Yes, the smallest administrative municipalities of Sweden are called "communes"). Therefore, I want to get a head start in preparation for my first all-grain brew. I want to brew a dark lager. I haven't yet...

I made a very simple mead batch of 5 liters with some leftover mead yeast, 1.5 kg of honey (a bit much? I've been resuspending what ended up in the bottom even after a good 15 minute boil), and spiced with hops. It's coming to the end of its primary fermentation, and I'm wondering how long a...

Let's say I have a packet of yeast, and make a 3l starter with it, properly fed. Could I just then decant the yeast liquid into small jars, and keep it in the fridge, ready to be multiplied when needed? I don't see any problems with it personally, but you never know...

The other topic has a misleading name and was on a somewhat different subject, so I thought I might repost it in a new topic. Happy for input/criticism. Note that the text is somewhat pedagogic as I posted it in other places. Allow me to introduce you to the brewing of Leonard's Grit...

First thing I ever made. Was bottled 22 August. No pectolase, not pasteurized, oversized vessels, no real knowledge about anything but the basics, and so on. It's not too visually appealing. Pectine hazed, but has a nice golden colour. Last time I tried it it was mostly yeast. And I just had a...

I went shopping yesterday, and bought some stuff to make a Stout. This is what I was thinking about throwing together: 5 gallon (19 liters) 0.5 kg Crystal Malt 60L 0.5 kg Roasted Barley 3 kg dark LME 1 kg amber LME 30g Centennial 11% @ start 30g Admiral 13.75% @ 30 min According to Beersmith...

So my first brew is fermenting rather quickly, it's John Palmer's Cinnicinati Pale Ale, with a modification of using light DME (because my supplier didn't have pale DME, no big deal). It's up to 3,0% after less than 24 hours, and Beersmith churned out the final ABV at 4.4%... Meaning it's soon...

... At least on this part of the hemisphere. Of course, you know what that means - Time for lagering! I'm a huge fan of dark lager - in particular the dark Czech lagers that I've had. Once I'm done with my first extract brew, and have put together my mashing equipment, I figured it's just the...

All right, so tomorrow I'll be getting my supplies for my first extract brew. Now, eventually I'd like to do all-grain brewing, and I need some ideas... My stove has a fan above it. Meaning, something the size of a brewpot could impossibly be used there, as it would damage the fan (I've got...

I got this old neat flask along with a few others when I bought a bunch of Damejeannes from a neighbour today. Now, there's some sort of goo stuck to the flask, both on the outside, and most notably, the gasket was pretty much stuck to the flask itself. I'm not sure how to clean it away. I've...

So far, I've made an apple wine and am halfway through a plum wine, all more or less done from scratch. I'm primarily, however, a beer enthusiast, and long to get into that. The fermentation, bottling, racking etc processes are all easy to me - the difficult part is the mashing. I'd like...

I have about 2 gallons of plum wine (from Jack Keller's recipe, made with garden plums) which has been fermenting since Friday, meaning primary fermentation is all but done, though I haven't gotten the glassware I need for secondary vessels quite yet. All well so far. However, there's this...