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In today's example, an American Amber with English Ale yeast ended up being one of the best ESB's I have ever had.

I have some friends coming to visit in early September and wanted to give them the best homebrew experience I could, so I meticulously planned out a brewing schedule. I brew outside and live in western Oregon, so, while it can get hot, as long as I plan my brew day well, I have no issues. Well...

I'm 20 brews in, so I'm not sure if I'm a beginner or not, but I broke an erlenmeyer flask and two airlocks in about 15 minutes today. It wasn't even a brew or keg day.

Sometimes I brew specific styles, but more often than not I like experimenting. I used some harvested 3944 from a witbier in a red beer that had a small wheat percentage and it turned out pretty good. The witbier had a moderate banana/clove flavor/aroma, but in the red it was really restrained...

I harvested and washed some S-04 and pitched one jar into a blonde. It finished in 6 days at 1.002 (from 1.043). The yeast was originally pitched into an ESB. I pitched a Scottish export on top of the ESB yeast cake. I harvested that yeast, and pitched it into another Scottish Export. The...

This is one of the beers I had concerns about the crush on. I also had concerns that I might have a stuck fermentation a few days ago. Well, it wasn't stuck, it is done. The final gravity was 1.002 and the ABV ended up over 5%. I pitched harvested and rinsed S-04. I was actually afraid I...

I did a triple brew day yesterday. When I was sparging brew #3 and taking the OG on brew #1, I realized that my grain didn't look right. Lots of floaters and numerous uncracked hulls. Long story short, the crush was not adequate and my efficiency suffered. My Stout ended up almost ten points low...

I've been brewing for a few months (4 maybe?) and am absolutely hooked. I was already a bit of a beer geek, but am not a hophead at all (I enjoy the occasional IPA, but only one or two once in a while). I moved to Eugene a year and a half ago, and everything was super hop-forward. Finding a...

I asked this question on another forum and just got a bunch of snide remarks questioning my intelligence, so I decided to try a new forum. Anyway, I have noticed that no matter how much of my homebrew I drink, I don't ever get a hangover. I sleep great, and wake up feeling refreshed. This...