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Have a cascade hops plant and are ready for harvest. Can I freeze them if not using immediately? Dry them first? Use right away fresh? Aroma, bittering, or flavor better with fresh hops? Thanks in advance for the advice.

Hello all! Glad to be back. After many life changes it is time for me to get back into brewing! It's been 5 years since I've brewed and am looking for some advice on what to start back up with. Here are some information about my equipment: Looking to brew this Sunday and have no...

Anyone know of any?! Would much appreciate it, moving this weekend!

I'd like to make a cranberry flavored beer that is not a lambic. I also cannot mash as i dont have the equipment for AG, just a glorified extract brewer with steeping and such. any ideas?

I am a Master's of Architecture graduate come May 16. I am in desperate need of a job in the Madison-Milwaukee-Chicago area. If anyone on here knows of a job or has connections to a firm please let me know, I have been trying real hard to find a job in my career and am having a very hard...

My eventual wife is looking for an architecture job in Chicago or Milwaukee metro areas. She has almost 1 year of experience, knows Revit very well. She worked for Crate & Barrel designing their stores and graduated with her undergraduate degree in 2007 from UW-Milwaukee. Can anyone help...

Beer and the president: A new political reality? -- chicagotribune.com read this link and you will c

CNN recently released a list of much of the Senate's cuts from the stimulus bill to cut there proposed bill from 900 billion to 780 billion. I understand many of the cuts, yet a few seems necessary for the "stimulus" part to work. • $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings...

On Valentine's Day....that will be my 1 year anniversary....of my first brew day. what ought i do?

I need people to give me a propane tank, a burner, a large pot, a mash paddle..... ok just kidding, but i wish that i could afford to go AG or at least get the kegerator i want. Such is college life, at least I can do extract and perfect that, and drink much better beer than my...

Champaign, IL -9 degrees today. -32 w/ windchill currently BLAST THAT IS COLD! and I can feel it all over! Guess ill warm myself up with a brew

Today we are brewing. Me, my buddy (who is on this forum as mnadamn), and our PROBIE! who is making an account with the forum name: GingerBuddha. We are brewing a scotch ale, while drinking Dundee Brewing beers today. My buds are from Milwaukee, and we wanted a more local or St. Louis brews...

I used EdWort's recipe and figured that apple juice would be about 1.040 i was wondering what the 2lbs of dextrose would make the OG about.....as i forgot to take an OG reading. my FG was .997

i am in college and hardly afford much, but as a hobby i enjoy brewing very much, was wondering where i could get some info for cheap equipment. Id be looking for a couple of carboy's and air locks, a SS pot for wort brewing as well as other necessities. If anyone knows where i can get cheap...

so i racked about 4 weeks ago, no carbination. think i didnt get enough yeast left in my bottles for the yeast to eat the sugar up. should i uncap and drop a few yeasties from a dry yeast package in each and recap?

I know this beer was out 2 years ago and likely will not be produced again, but does anyone by chance know where it is still available in wisconsin? maybe accidentally have a case or a 6er laying around

I am an extract brewer wondering if anyone has a good Cranberry Beer recipe! Thanks! Trying to find something the SWMBO would like that is not a regular beer I looked in the threads and didnt find much info and was wondering if anyone could help me out here

Can i make a cranberry wine with 5 gallons of cranberry concentrate (Ocean's Spray) 2lbs of dextrose and montrachet? would that work?any problems? I searched the forums and did not find much help and was wondering if anyone had any information! thanks! It would be good to know a recipe if that...

Honey Brown Ale Extract Kit -- Kit Inventory Sheet that is the instructions and inventory of my brew I started it last thursday and when i woke up today the airlock had basically no activity after being active the past 5 days. i know i do not know fermentation really without checking the SG...

[(homeade chicken cordon bleu) + (a small spinach salad) + (boiled red potatoes)] X (a homebrew that the SWMBO enjoys) = a great night! yes...i used math and brackets...deal with it