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Let me be clear: I am NOT being forced to move anywhere because of beer. I am moving to the Twin Cities for a job. A real job. But, I like drinking craft beer. I like making beer. I need to find my next residence in the next month or two, and I was wondering what neighborhoods are the most...

Good evening, What's sour AND smoky? I'm thinking of a brown ale, that is very sour, but uses smoked malt, and although I can usually conjure up some tangentially-related name, I'm drawing a blank on this one. Thank you.

Good morning, Yesterday, I brewed a partial mash red ale - a modified Brewer's Best kit, with rye and Pilsner extracts, in place of the standard Briess light - and instead of using the pellet hops that are packaged with the kits, I used leaf. During the boil, I had quite a bit of foam-up, and...

Good evening, As certain as I am that what I am asking has been addressed, I need an answer more readily available. With that, my question: I need to chill my wort, in order to properly ferment anything that isn't French or Steam Beer. My current living situation does not permit a...

My most recent brew looks perfect: right clarity, right carbonation, right color. But, the taste is noticeably absent. It's not that it's bad, but that it's gone. It doesn't taste like much of anything. What little flavor pokes through is actually pretty good, But that could be my mouth playing...

...And did I just waste eight days of my life? The yeast I was using - a packet of Wyeast Whitbread Ale - had been in my fridge for over six months, due to cats impeding in my brewing operation. I brewed on the 23rd, and for the first four days, had fairly consistent activity in the airlock...

Yes, this is about brewing. Last night, I scrambled to get out of work on time (I had been working longer days for the past few weeks), in order to ship two bottles of my original recipe (4:1 Maris Otter/Choco Rye; Amarillo, and Safale S-04). Entries had to be in by today, and I had been in...

Good evening, I must admit that while I seem to have the basic understanding of brewing, I can't seem to identify what it is I'm brewing. I know they're ales, because there is no lagering involved, and that they use top-fermenting yeast. So, I have a recipe, which is fermenting brilliantly -...

Good evening, Approximately ninety minutes ago, I racked my one-gallon original recipe (SMaDH - Maris Otter, Centennial and Australian Galaxy, Safale S-04), and ended up with this: Obviously, I couldn't rack it into the secondary fermenter, but it begs the question: how did I end up...

Ever since I first started brewing at the beginning of 2012, I have been using kits, with a 60% success rate (the two failed batches were the result of brewer error). However, I want to do my own recipes, because that is the next logical step. With that, I went to my LHBS, bought a bunch of...