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I am trying to come up with a recipe for a beer that I can make using what I have laying around (5 gallon). All of these things I've accumulated over the years, yes some hops will be old but always kept in my beer fridge. So with that said can you all can help me come up with. Given the LME I...

I have Ken Schramm's book on making mead and in it he states he adds his fruits to secondary, but I also thought I saw somewhere on here that he has since changed that and adds it to primary once the bulk of the initial fermentation is done. So I am torn between which to do, I am making a...

So I am making my second Mead (first was a semi dry Avocado mead), this one is a Sweet Mead. I did research from a few different places and recipes to come to a simple recipe of 18lbs Honey, a 2L starter of D47 and tsp of DAP and 2tsp of nutrient stirred to make the mead. I read that it...

I got this recipe from a friend and modified it a bit. His recipe used Golden Promise and was all grain. I couldnt do it all grain as the grain bill was too big for my 5 gal MTL. So I partial'd it. This turned out fantastic and I didnt originally intend to put it in the whiskey barrel, that...

So, I just had a bottle of this and it is flat amazing. Has anyone tried to formulate a recipe for this yet? I know it uses Citra and Centennial for dry hopping, but not sure what is used (and the schedule) during the boil.

Im going to brew a watermelon Hefe here soon as both a summer beer and a wedding gift. I have a short amount of time for this to condition (bottle) so I need to get it done like yesterday. Here is the recipe I am going to use: 10 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US 0.49 oz Hallertauer [4.80 %] - Boil...

So, I'm sitting at work today talking with some of the guys and one says "why don't you make a squash beer, they make pumpkin and squash isn't much different." So that got me thinking, he is right about them being similar. so id like to put a recipe together that uses squash. I'm thinking a...

So I have seen a few threads about people opening their nano breweries and have for a while been thinking of doing something like that myself. I am extremely close to obtaining the funding I need to open my nano brewery. What i havent delved into is the cost of the licenses and fees for doing...

So I bottled my Cherry Stout today, and I am not sure how to calculate the ABV in it, if someone could help me out and let me know how to do it that would be great. OG = 1.050 Gravity when racked onto 3lb Cherry Puree = 1.016 Gravity before bottling = 1.011 Gravity with corn sugar in it =...

Made this today in order for it to be well conditioned for my wedding in September. So a present to myself :) I took and modified the 888 RIS from BrewPastor and am adding a few things to it. Including some Bourbon in secondary and again a bit more during bottling. Anyways here is the...

This is the first time I have had this problem. I brewed a stout yesterday, waited till it was at 80 and pitched my yeast. By yesterday night it was bubblin away, this morning I noticed it was significantly stopped, and now just got home and it is completely stopped. I have not taken a...

So I have an opportunity to buy a 5gal Mash Tun that someone made out of a stand up rubbermaid cooler. As the topic states it is only 5gal, I was thinking that I would need something bigger if I did want to start doing all grain brewing, as I dont know how many pounds of grain it could hold and...

Been on the forums for a little over 2 weeks now, I used to brew a long time ago with my dad when he was into it. He has since stopped and recently I picked through his equipment and bought what I needed to get it modern. :) Been brewing myself now for 4 weeks, have done a High Gravity...

Im brewing a Cherry Stout next weekend and the kit came with a Cherry Extract. The directions say to add the extract to the bottling bucket and then bottle. My question is this, if I dont want to use the extract and want to use Cherry Puree how would I best go about that? I was thinking...

Recently I have got back into brewing at home after taking several years off. I am finding it by far more enjoyable than it was for me when I did it in the past. I have been thinking more and more about taking my hobby a step further and actually opening a home brew store here close to where I...

Ive tried looking online for this but cant seem to find something like this anywhere. I am looking to do a cherry stout here quite soon, it calls for 2oz of Cherry Extract when racking to secondary. I would like to use actual juice and not concentrate for this, can anyone assist me with this...