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Has anyone tried making strawberry milk with Smuckers Sundae Topping, or any sort of "sundae syrup"? I can't find Hershey's syrup anywhere in my city, SWMBO is boycotting Nestle so Nesquik is out of the question, but Smuckers is readily available. Would it work?

In February 2015, SWMBO decided that she was going to challenge herself swear off chocolate until our wedding, which isn't until October 2016. She's stuck to it, without any cheating or slip-ups, which I find kind of astonishing. With the weather getting colder again, she's been saying how...

This morning I got some sad news from my fiancee; after I left for work but before she did, she noticed the smell of beer coming from my closet. Inside, my Sleeman Boss growler full of homebrew amber ale had shattered completely. I think either I'd accidentally cracked it when I put our...

I'm not even sure if I want to do this, but I'm curious if it would work: by adding clean and/or sanitized stones to the boil and/or secondary, do you think I'd be able to extract any flavours from the rock?

After my parsnip beer experiment was a resounding success, I'm moving on to another vegetable beer, this time with turnips. Since turnips are fairly earthy and bitter by themselves., I think they'll be able to replace the bittering hops. They're also very starchy, so I'll be using them in the...

Hey everyone, I'm hoping to make a big batch of authentic Klingon Bloodwine, but I'm going to need a bit of help. I'm looking for 4 to 5 healthy non-smokers with type B+ (I have room for one O- person MAX) in the Toronto area, willing to give up an afternoon and a pint or two. I'll supply...

Just to see what will happen, I've started a series of small-batch experiments in making beer with a mix of 2-row malt and starchy vegetables. My first one, a half-gallon of parsnip ale, is fermenting nicely. I also plan to try turnip and rutabaga. What I haven't been able to find any...

My latest beer, a simple IPA, supposedly finished bottle-conditioning over the weekend; they'd been in the closet for two weeks before that, and had been primed in the bottling bucket with an amount of sugar that has served me well so far (0.75 grams in a two-gallon batch). However, each of...

On Sunday, I brewed up a simple Roggenbier recipe and used Safbrew WB-06 dry wheat beer yeast. The wort had an OG of 1.040 before pitching the yeast. Three days later, I really haven't seen much in terms of krausen; it almost looks like a half-centimetre-thick layer of pale mud floating on the...

Today was my first time using a siphon to move an IPA to secondary, and I'm pretty sure my beer got heavily oxygenated while I tried to wrangle my hose (giggity). Am I doomed to an off-flavoured beer, or can this be recovered from?

My fiancee and I are planning to adopt a cat in December, and while we're both really excited to bring him or her into our home, it's got me thinking of cats I used to own or know and who have passed away over the years. So it's kind of melancholy too. Has anyone else experienced this when...

I'm getting ready to make a series of somewhat experimental beers, doing a mini-mash of 2-row (my friendly local brew store doesn't carry 6-row, for some reason) and various starchy root vegetables. Parsnip is the first one I plan to try, because I really like parsnips, but I'm also going to...

We talk about beer a lot, but how often do you just sit and enjoy some champagne? http://youtu.be/mBNKUda-s6M

I'm lucky enough that SWMBO owns at an antique and vintage shop, and occasionally brings home some pretty cool stuff. Her latest find, that she's sent me a picture of, is this glass barrel that looks to me like a wide-mouthed carboy. Unfortunately, there's no lid to go with it. Does anyone...

When making your own recipes, how do you decide what variety of hops to use? It seems like we have an embarassment of riches with all the different strains out there.

Noble Hop is a new brew supply store in Toronto, at 1567 Dundas West (right near Dufferin street). As soon as you walk in, there's a big shelf with 3 lb bags of DME (no LME yet, but the owner says he's working on that) and various-sized packages of grain; it looked like a good mix of base malts...

Parsnip beer. Now that that's out of the way, let me explain: When I told some friends of mine that I'd started homebrewing, one of them (an avid DnD player) made a joke about brewing Dwarven Ale. That got me thinking, I started doing research, and it's ended up with a potential recipe for...

So, apparently when I ordered my ingredients to make John Palmer's Mill Run Stout, I accidentally ordered Briess Munich LME instead of the Briess Pilsen LME the recipe calls for. Is this likely to produce off-flavours in the stout, or should I be okay?

I was online and ordering supplies for an extract stout recipe, and saw a product called Turbo Yeast among the more familiar yeasts I've been reading about. So, I did a search on HBT for threads about Turbo Yeast, and most of the results I saw looked like teenagers trying to make garbage-tasting...

Pleased to meet you! I'm a novice homebrewer, I've been lurking through the forums for a while, picking up tips, and just made an account now. I promised you a weird question, here it is: I've seen a few threads on here about accidentally creating something toxic, and everyone seems to agree...