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edit-title should have said brew day, not brewery. Damn auto-correct My wife gave birth to our first son on Jan 6th. Right after I received my new catalyst fermentor and dark star2 burner in the mail. Raising a newborn has been tougher and more time consuming then I expected, and since...

DFH release chart shows a 2016 release of World Wide Stout happening this month. I haven't seen any bottles local yet. Does anyone know if/when this might come out? I tried a sample of the 2013 WWS a couple years ago and I'd like to grab a few bottles.

Somehow my wife wound up pregnant and we are expecting out first child(She doesn't want to know the gender before it's born) on New Years Day. I'm thinking of trying to find a bottle of Utopia to buy before then and saving it for 16-18 years or so until my son(I'm sure it's a boy) or...

My first try at a wet hop ale. I harvested my chinook and cascades today and I'll be brewing in the morning. Here's my plan: 11 lbs 2-row 1lb caramel 40 mash at 152 for 60 min batch sparge 1 oz cascade pellets 60min 4 oz chinook 20 min 5 oz cascade 10 min 5 oz cascade flameout...

The hops I planted last year are ready to harvest. I've got 3 cascade plants, 1 chinook and 1 colombus. I want to harvest on Saturday and do a fresh hop ale on Sunday. I picked up a Dead ringer IPA(two hearted clone) kit from NB on sale a couple months ago and I'm going to use that as the...

My family has a slight competitive streak in it. So once we heard about the "beer mile" it was only a matter of time until we tried it. Here are the official rules- http://www.beermile.com . The only real running tracks around us are at high schools and since we were't too sure about the...

I decided about 2 months ago to brew my first saison. I followed a pretty simple recipe I found and wound up with a starting gravity of 1.05. Pitched a packet of danstar belle saison and brought it down into my basement to ferment. It fermented at about 66 degrees for 2 weeks, then I...

Having recently switched to all-grain I'm now planning on trying my hand at an original recipe. Based on what I have on hand I'm going for an english style ipa. Here's my plan right now: 10lbs maris otter 3lbs 2 row 8oz biscuit 4oz special B mash at 154 for 60 min. batch sparge...

I have a cellar full of hard to find fantastic beers that I am aging. I have a nice home brewed english bitter and brown ale on tap in my garage and I have a 6 pack of lagunitas brown shugga in the fridge. For the big game tonight though, I will be sticking with nothing but Coors. I want to...

I have a thin white layer of something that formed on top of my barleywine after about 3 weeks in secondary. I left it in primary for 4 full weeks and my final gravity was 1.015(o.g. 1.1, nottingham yeast) so I'm sure fermentation was complete. I've never seen this before and was wondering if...

So I got all my new christmas gifts unpacked, assembled and cleaned yesterday. 10 gallon ss brew kettle and a cooler mash tun. Plus I took some copper tubing I had leftover from installing my central air conditioning last year and cobbed together an immersion chiller. Now I'm all set to start...

4 years in a row now i have celebrated Christmas eve with a bottle of dfh 120. Just wondering if anyone else has a preferred beer they enjoy on this special night. Merry Christmas all!

My brew cabinet is getting a little cluttered so tomorrow I'm going to try and clear it out some and throw together a recipe. Here's what I've got hanging around: 3lbs light dme 6lbs amber lme 6lbs wheat lame 2.5 lbs 2 row malt 3/4lb biscuit malt 3/4lb chocolate male 3/4lb crystal 75 6...

I'm brewing this tomorrow and it's only my 2nd all grain/biab batch so I was wondering if my recipe looks okay: 6 lbs golden promise 1 lb maris otter 1 lb pilsner(or 2 row. I have both) .25 lbs crystal 120 mash in 5 gallons water at 153 for an hour. Rinse/sparge the bag of grains with 2...

Sooo, I wound up with a few hours today and decided I would brew up a kit I had sitting in the basement. Northern Brewer, Surly Bitter partial mash clone. I always like to have a beer or 2 of the style I'm brewing while I'm brewing it so I may have had a goose island honkers ale or 2. Plus a...

My first lager. I decided to keep it simple and go with a commercial extract kit. Ordered this from Morebeer.com. recipe 9 lbs munich lme 4 lbs pilsner dme 8 oz crystal 60 2 oz crystal 120 1 0z northern brewer 60 min 1 oz mittlefruh 30 min 1 package saflager s-23 I...

I started brewing last summer and have made about 10 brews so far with 3 being excellent, 3 being ok, 2 being drinkable and 2 going down the drain. I got Palmers How to Brew after my first batch(amber ale that turned out ok) and I've wanted to try his fighting urak-hai barleywine since I first...

So I'm trying to use up some old supplies I've got laying around and I found 1/2 a package of nottingham and 1/2 a package of ec-1118 left over from some small cider batches I've made. I've got 2 beers and a graff going right now so I'm running out of room and equipment right now. All I have...

So i live in upstate NY and I have never tasted a Pliny. As a hardcore hop-head who has brewed a few different pliny clones I feel like I am missing out by never having experienced the real deal. I have a few bourbon county stouts, and a couple dfh 120's in my basement I would trade. I also...

So I brewed a batch of an english mild a little over a month age. It took almost 3 days for any sign of fermentation, then I got a good krausen that lasted for less then a day. I let it sit in the primary for another 11 days(2 weeks total) then transferred it to secondary for another 12 days...