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The Beer Nut is closer than SCBS. If you're doing extract beers note that the Beer Nut stocks Munton's for DME while SCBS stocks Briess. And don't forget to enter a beer (or more) in the Bee Hive Brew Off taking place mid-August. Your beers can be dropped off at the Beer Nut.

Speaking of sorghum I'm working on homebrewed African Chibuku beer commonly called shake-shake. I have a 6 lb bottle of malted sorghum extract on the way and the flaked maize will be mashed with Amylase enzyme. My Recipe for 2 gallons of partial mash shake-shake: 1.75 lbs sorghum extract 2...

Now I'm having an unhopped Braggot. Man that stuff goes down easy!

Today I'm drinking a Honey Hefe I bottled just five days ago and a Southern English Brown ale also bottled five days ago. The Hefe seems to be maturing faster with decent carbonation already and a nice clove aroma with a faint banana flavor. I can tell the Brown will be great with another week...

For my late addition extracts I'm boiling 4 gallons of water with 1 lb of DME usually for 30 minutes. At 10 minutes to flame off I add the remainder of the DME. I use Beersmith software to calculate the IBUs as the hop utilization is quite good. I'm brewing my experimental "Gringo Chicha"...

Once again I'm brewing. I started 37 years ago with Blue Ribbon hopped extract, white sugar, and dry yeast. Needless to say the beers weren't very good so I didn't take it up again until 18 years ago when I decided to make good homebrew. Since then I've made over 80 brews, about half extract and...

To help with a good head retention keep things clean from beginning to end. No detergent residue and no fat/oils residue. Multiple rinses of the equipment with very hot tap water work well. This applies to the bottles and the drinking glasses.

I pitch ales at 80 deg F and it eventually cools to the house temp of 74 deg F.

I have been thinking about using distilled water for some time with my extract brews. When the extract is made I assume they use suitable water treatment and the minerals get carried through into the LME/DME. So why add more minerals by using tap or bottled spring water when I can use distilled...