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Since I once searched online for online brewing courses, it seems like Facebook is now targeting me with offers for university certificate programs covering from basic brewing techniques to the business of running a brewery. I'm always interested in learning, but not planning to operate a beer...

After a long Covid-related hiatus, I was finally able to visit my home country of Brazil, to see family and friends. I was delighted to find some interesting beers in the supermarket shelf, displacing the local AB InBev usuals, as well as the overpriced uninteresting imports (often InBev...

Yesterday I brewed a Mosaic IPA - a recipe basically adapted from the Northern Brewer all grain kit, but the yeast seems to have failed. I made a starter, over three days, from the Wyeast English Ale 2 yeast. I could tell that there wasn’t much going on in the starter, but I pitched it anyway...

After 18 months in deep storage, due to a temporary pandemic relocation, I returned home and found my copper coil chiller turned into the Statue of Liberty. It looks beautifully green! Not an emergency, as I have another - thankfully, stainless - chiller, but how can I clean this off and make it...

Due to a miscalculation converting honey from volume to weight I ended up with a much higher OG than I intended for my mead. My refractometer reads about 1120 after I diluted the must as much as I could. Am I still in the ballpark? The yeasts I have on hand are Red Star Premier Blanc and Premier...

As it happens, I now find myself with an ample supply of fresh birch water/sap. A tree snapped in half during a storm, thus we have been tapping it ruthlessly, with 12 spiles, since it's going to die anyway. The result is about 15l (3.3 gallons)/day. We drank all we could, gave away buckets to...

So, it's mardi gras, or... pancake day! The only variety of yeast I have in my fridge is some harvested Hornindal kveik. Will it work on my pancakes as an alternative to ordinary bakers yeast? Any advice or recipes welcome!

This is my first post - delighted to be here! I'm brewing my first attempt at a more or less authentic Lithuanian Farmhouse or Kaimiskas beer, and wonder if any of you have tried and what have been your results. The only post I found on this topic dates from 2012, and since then the interest in...