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I'm just getting started in cheesemaking and I'm running into milk issues. I've had two failed batches of 30-minute mozzeralla where the curd just never really formed because the milk (one gallon from Publix and one from Costco) had been pasteurized at too high a temp. Does anyone know of a...

So I brewed a sort of pils with 3lbs of Pils dme in 2.5 gallons of water. I boiled .75 ounces of Saaz a hops for 45 minutes and added another .25 ounces of Saaz for the last 15 minutes. According to the Brewers Friend calculator that gravity/hops/boil time should give me 22-23 IBUs but when I...

Hi, I'm new to the forum but have been "brewing" beer with Mr Beer for a few years now since my wife bought me the kit for Christmas. After taking a couple of years off due to moving house I finally got a set-up where I can control my fermentation temps and have started back into brewing. In...

I've been making Mr Beer batches for a few years now and I've always wondered what (if anything) I'm missing by not doing my own hop boils etc. On the other hand, I'm a big believer in the 80/20 rule, that is, you can get 80% of the benefit of most things with 20% of the work. So I've decided...