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So I've been doing starch conversion tests at the end of all my mashes. I read that if the mash is not complete then it will turn black/purple. For my past three batches at the end of the 60 min the tests have all turned red. Even if I let it mash longer it seems to stay the same color. Can...

so ive been brewing beer for a year now and am curious to try a batch of mead. I would like to make a small batch to start out with because A, I've never had it before and am not sure how i will like it. B honey seems like its crazy expensive. I was thinking of boiling on the stove and...

so i'm going to be switching from my rectangular coleman cooler to the circular rubbermaid cooler. I feel like I'm loosing to much heat out of the coleman. I can see the steam seeping out from underneath the lid while mashing. I was wondering if I should go with the 5 or 10 gallon cooler...

so I've been kegging my last 6 or 7 batches but only having three kegs and with the speed that me and my girlfriend and our friends go through them they are usually not lasting much more than 2 or 3 weeks after they are carbed I know some beers like heffes are ready to be consumed early. and...

so i've been reading in "the joy of homebrewing" and some other books about mashing in stages. Raising the temps in stages to extract certain things from the grains. Do many of you do this ? How do you go about it? can someone give me an example of how their mash procedure looks using this...

So I have been making pretty decent beer for the past 8 months now. My big problem has been keeping my fermentation temps consistent. when I have the space i will purchase a fridge for fermenting, but as for now( for the last three beers) I have been doing the swamp cooler with frozen ice...

So I made an IPA quite a while ago but completly forgot the irish moss. The beer has been sitting in the keg for almost a month now first two weeks at room temp (70) and the other half at chilling temp 38-40 but it is still hazy and tastes very green/bready/yeasty. I know everyone says that...

a while ago on these boards someone had posted a picture of a Obama like poster and instead of HOPE it said HOPS and had a giant hop cone anyone know of what I am talking about I would love to have that as a poster above my kegerator thanks joe

So my plan today was to make a nice simple English pale # 7.5 of 2 row # 1 of crystal 20 L With fuggles and kent goldings. For my past several batches I've been 1.3 per pound for the mash, and 1.5 per pound for sparge (broken into two additions) and every time I've been getting around 6...

So I have my first batch about a week away and it already tastes great and wicked strong, but I was wondering what your opinions were about carbonation or not. Is it affecting the flavor at all ?

I've been reading on here and everyone keeps saying pipeline, and as simple and reasonable as that sounds I think everyone here knows how hard it is to keep your grubby little hands off your beer as soon as it's in the bottle especially when it's one of your first batches. I drank my very...

alright so I set my keg at 10 psi and let it sit for a week and it was perfectly carbed. but then after a few more days It seems to be over carbed now. with like 6 inches of head....am I supposed to be bleeding the keg every few days or is 10 psi to much for serving pressure ? the beer is at...

do you guys leave your c02 on at all times ? or do you only let it run when you want to pour a glass. I assume that it can be running at all times, but I just wanted to make sure. I just realized that the kegs have release valves so I guess it wouldn't really be a big deal.....but I still...

alright...so I just got my new kegerator set up, and am looking forward to getting rid of the huge piles of bottles taking up my tiny appartment. so let me see if I have this right. 1. So after I transfer the beer into the corny...then I need to presurize the tank and bleed out any...

So I'm planning on making a pretty hoppy pale tomorrow, but the only hops I have are two ounces of warrior, and two ounces of magnum. How would you guys use these. I don't have the grain bill in front of me unfortunatly. I want to do a large amount of late additions and not as much early...

Beer Wars Movie the previews looks awesome

So after reading a lot of posts I have decided to forgo the secondary and just let my grapefruit blonde remain in the primary. I am planning on dry hopping with a little bit of cascade but was just wondering if it is ok to dry hop in the primary (as long as fermentation is done of course) or...

So i have done 4 or 5 brews so far and they all have a wierd off flavor and I don't get it. Is there any home brewer in the seattle are who wants to give one of my brews a try and tell me where I am going wrong ?

ok so I've completed 4 beers so far, and they have all had the same problem....they all have a very strong off flavor up front and they don't mellow out. I can't really describe the taste except that it is not great and it is pretty bitter. So i have been thinking about what I may have been...

so i bottled my first ag today, it was my attempt at a Deshutes hop trip recipe. Unfrotunatly my hydrometer broke the day of brewing so i never got any readings, but I just let it sit extra long to make sure fermentation and clearing had completed. when i was transfering into my bottling bucket...