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Recently I have had alot of luck with clones, been playing about with cloneing some of my favorite comercial beers. Just bottled Scarecrow Pale Ale clone, and have an Winters Burbon Cask Ale clone in primary. I want to try and go for an Amber Bock Clone. I personally love Michalobe's bock...

Type: All Grain ABV: 5.5% (give or take) OG: 1.050 FG:1.008 Fermentation Time (Primary): Untill done (roughly 3-4weeks at 65F) Fermentation Time (Sec) : None Yeast: Nottingham Dry yeast Difficulty level: Easy Taste notes: dry and good apple taste, good strong almost burning...

So today i got a reprieve from working but i still had to go to class... so i got up early and brewed a partical mash version of Hoas pale Ale, on comminsion for sombody, hopped the hell out of it to as there request...I get done late and im wreaking of hops and garin so i jump in the truck and...

I want to work on a quick meade which taste good about 6-8% that ferments out and ages in about a month... does anybody have any thoughts? I have 3lbs of fine wild flower honey, a bunch of lipton ice tea bags, and alot of other regular kitchen and brewing stuff... even a whole lemon... This...

SO i brewed this .5lbs: Carapils 8lbs: Pale 2 row Mash 60 mins Sparge 10 mins Boil 60 mins Cascade 1oz 50 minutes (bittering) Sazz 1/2oz 15 minutes (aroma) OG Projected: 1.042 -1.046 Projected FG: 1.010- 1.008 Actual OG 1.040, a little low byt...

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So ahhhhhh last night a friend of mine was over and we were getting hosed... and when i want to get hosed i drink Everclear... with a water chaser becasue that stuff drys out your mouth :off: ... Well anyway my friend was drinking beer, so he was not real drunk and he asks for a home...

I am so happy, so very very happy... I was looking around the other day and there has been rumbelings in the FDA about recalling 18 differnt types of the 120 types of #7 plastic... I use the certified BPA free water bottles, but i decided to change over to brewing certified plastic anyway. So i...

Alustralian Walk About Lager Starting Gravity: 1.044-1.050 Finishing Gravity: 1.007-1.013 Approximate Alcohol Content: 4.0-4.5% Cara Pils 8.0 ounces Pale 2 Row 8.0 pounds Pride of Ringwood (Bittering) 0.5 ounces Saaz (Finishing) 1.0 ounces Irish Moss 1.0 package Wyeast #2042...

I have about 5 gallons of blueberry/apple cider which has bottom out at about .95 and it smell like rocket fule and is so tart it makes your lips pucket just sipping at it, i want to doctor it in sevral differnt ways and leave it bottled for sevral months, i also dont want to tie up alot of...

I am not a beer drinker, i tend not to be attracted by the bitter acidy taste of a large ammounts of hops... I am thinking of an australian Pale Ale, or maybe my first lager while winter is still in swing here in michigan and i can use the coldness of the garage to let it ferment... Do i have...

I dont know about this but i am thinking of ordering... Amazon.com has an entire section completely devoted to home brewing... Things like 10 pound bags of grain for less then 20$, a variety pack of 6-8oz bags of 6 types of premium orgainc hops, Hops seeds, Hydroponic hops setups... Over 50...

the world over there are no more proclaimed skilled meade makers then the Irish. Many of the recipes are kept absolutly secrate... I am looking for a real irish recipe for meade. From my research it is a mild meade, containing Alfalfa honey or other brands of wild flower honey but nothing as...

I had the flue yesterday and was feeling better today and remembered as i lay there being happy about my nearly returned health that i had brewing chores to do. I started an Irish Carmel stout a while ago intending to give out the cases derived from the 5 gallon batch as presents at christmas...

So this is gonna seem odd, but i started another batch of my eternal Oat Ale (unhopped)over a month back... then after about 2 weeks fermentation was still regular i added it to a 5 gallon carboy (about 3 gallons of the ale) and added a gallon of already fermenting cider and let it settle for 3...

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over 24 hours ago i pinched about a table soop of Notingham dry yeast into a gallon of plain apple juice from concentrat... and even twenty-four hours later nothing... used the rest of the package on a five gallon i batch of the same type of juice just about 2-3 hours ago and normally see...

I have recently bottled a big batch of cider and am quite happy with it, it is sitting in conditioning... i waas drinking alot of Woodchucks recently because of the size of the batch and the time it took, and i noticed that WoodChucks had a nice crisp taste and feeling to them... i was just...

So i want to start a new batch, just bottled an entire five gallon batch, so i have a fermenter open... but i dont have any yeast on hand and dont have the time to go get some anytime soon... i do have a batch going already... what if i pulled say a liter out of this other batch i have going and...

I have a stupid question and i just like to be laughed at, so i got 3 2.5 gallon formally distilled water kegs (box like structure, like the dispensers you put in your fridge but not plasctic they are alluminium) I know they only held distilled water for the sevral years they were used. They...