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Can you use raw honey when brewing? If so how do I use it? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So I plan on creating an extract beer that involves green tea. I got a couple of questions and a couple of ideas. Could I use tea that is already packaged and bagged like biggelow tea or something like that or should I be using whole leave? My plan would be to steep a fair amount of tea in...

In going to brew a beer with tea and honey. What types of hops should i use? In thinking something earthy that doesn't take away from the tea flavor. Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So I was just thinking about something different. I was thinking about brewing a shandy style beer but one that would be appropriate for the fall. I'm thinking using an amber ale and blending it with apple cider. Anyone have any suggestions on the best way to go about making this. Should the...

I currently brew extract batches. With most of my batches I steep specialty grains. What I do to steep is I bring the water up to the required temperature needed then add the grains to the water and allow them to steep for the required amount of time. Today I was reading a recipe written by...

So I was considering making a batch of beer that would be inspired by the disco lemonade cocktail. It consists of blue curaçao, vodka and lemonade. The main fruit in blue curaçao is laraha, which I'm not sure if it would be available to me but to my understanding is similar to an orange. So for...

I want to brew an East Coast IPA using hops primarily from the eastern US. What hops would you recommend?

This is the yeast I washed. I plan on using it in the next week or so. How do I go about separating the yeast from the trub and using it for a brew.

I was thinking next time we get a snow storm here in Boston to collect the snow as it falls and use it as our water for a batch. Any thoughts?

So we bottled last night and we decided to add a half cup of honey to the bottling bucket for about 4 gallons of beer. Will this have any affect on the beer at all?

I know the obvious answers like size and equipment available but I'm just curious how commercial brewers brew differently than homebrewer's.

After we bottled our brown ale tonight we washed the yeast for the first time. Hope it worked!

I'm brewing a brown ale tomorrow to have ready for Christmas. I'm adding 1 or 2 cinnamon sticks, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1 tsp allspice, and 3 cloves. I planed on adding them all in the boil with five minutes remaining. My questions are: 1. Would you add the ingredients at different time intervals or...

So I bottled 8 gallons of cider last night. Just want to know how long until they are ready to drink. Ive read that they age like a wine so the longer they sit in the bottle the better. Also should they age in the refrigerator?

I plan on making a brown ale tomorrow for Christmas. Im going to use cloves in the boil. Im juat curious about how many I should use. Ill attach a picture to show the size of them.

What is the proper carbonation level for a sparkling cider. I plan on bottling tomorrow and was thinking 3.0.

We made a raspberry cider. I tried it tonight and it was very tart. I added about 12 oz if water to the 2 gallon batch to dilute that taste. Was this an ok move?

I want to make a brew to have ready for Christmas. Im thinking a brown ale. Besides cinnamon and nutmeg what would be some good spices or ingredients to add?

Im thinking about whipping this up in the next week or two. Id love to hear anyones thoughts or suggestions on the recipe. 5.5 gallon batch Extracts 1 lb Dark DME 5 lbs Light DME Steeping Grains .75 lbs Crystal 40L .5 lbs Carapils .25 lbs Chocolate Malt .25 Roasted Barley Hops...

Got a whole bunch of brewing stuff to get done tomorrow but im also thinking about makeing a batch of beer since one of my primaries will be opening up. I dont want to spend a lot of money but id like to make a decent 5 gallon batch. And suggestions? I was thinking of maybe a SMASH batch.