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I was cleaning up the grain bin I found 4 pounds of 2 row. 3 pounds of DME pils, 1 pound of flaked maze and for some reason that I can't seem to remember i found 1 pound of rice syrup solids. I wanted to use up the old stock and get ready for the Märzen I wanted to brew next month I punched the...

I am at the end of my beer supplies this year (well last years I guess) I have 3 pounds of DME pils and 4 pounds of 2 row and 1 pound of flaked maze I have Saaz hops 3.4 aa cascade 11 aa I want to try and ferment in a corny keg I only want 4 gallons of wort so I have room for the head space in...

We did it again made a Viking ale heated wort with red hot rocks beer is in the bottles now good taste a little Smokey. It was a fun brew day for my friend Steve and me.

My fridge was not cooling so I turned the dial to coldest. it was still 54 degrees f. I defrosted my fridge. That was Friday. So now for one day it was set to coldest setting today my beer in the Fermzilla and my kegged Root Beer froze. I am not worried about the Root Beer but wonder if...

I made a 7 gall batch of beer using some South American Vienna malt I got cheap ($35 CND for 50 lbs.) I used 10 lbs. Vienna Malt ! lb. corn 1 lb. wheat 1 lb. dextrose. (The gravity reading was very low) 2 oz. Hallertau 4.9 aa one once @ 60 min. 1/2 oz. @30min 1/2 oz. at flame out It is...

I brewed my first batch of Kolsch ale Feb.11 I used Fermentis Safale K-97 for the first time, I used RO water and adjusted the water profile also for the first time . The grain bill was 8 lbs Kolsch malt from Home brew store 2 lbs. Vienna malt, 8 oz. acidulated malt and 8 oz. carapils. (A...

I have a Smash ale under way, it is in a Fermzilla all rounder under pressure. I have A Tilt in fermenter so I get readings all the time. Starting SG was 1.056. I used a malt I got from a company going out of business (50 # for $35 CND.) I used 11 pounds of malt a Kievk La Brew dry yeast...

I have 3 hop bines I bought 2 from a nursery and I found one growing wild at my archery club I took it home and planted it in a 20 gallon container. The sotre bought bines are 2 years old and doing poorly very mall cones. The wild hop is 20 feet high with big cones. I want to use them do I...

We went on vacation and when I returned my hop bines look bad. The leaves are brown some have holes in them. Two of the bines are from last year I planted 4 but only 2 survied the winter. I found a wild hop plant at my archery club and took some of the root home. I planted this away from the...

I have been brewing with all grain for some time now. My last 3 brews have all come out the same sg. 1.069 I went on Brewfather and entered in the ingredients and Brewfather gave me a est/. SG of 1.055. I would like to brew a lighter abv but am unsure of how to gauge the abv. I know "add...

I would like to try and carbonate my beer in the keg but don't know what to do. I read somewhere to halve the priming sugar. and wait 2 weeks. any help would be great.

In keeping with things I have not yet tried like the time I brewed beer with hot rocks, made the honey, grape and barley drink Midas Touch, made mead and of course the pine tree soda (very good) I am now going to make sake for the first time. I have been a martial artist for many years and we...

I have heard about stuck mash, read about it, even watched a Youtube video about it. Now I have lived it. OMG! I bought a grain mill (Cereal Killer 2 rollers) I set it up with a chargecard and ground 12 pound of grain. I got my Brewzilla out, heated the water snd mashed in. Ah, all was...

;) Concoction #52 was a mix of left over wort from an Irish Red ale, Some DME, and the jucie of apples found by the side of the road. (note* not "Road Apples") I kegged it and had a bout 3 gallons in the keggerator. My son in law is from Belgium he tasted it , loved it, drank it all. What a...

My son in law who came over from Belgium helped me make anothr Scrap Ale. We took what ever malt that had not been used thios year and brewed another Scrap Ale. We did this the last time the kids came over from Europe. B&S (Bill And Sam )Scrap Ale. This year it's B&S Boxing Day Scrap Ale...

I opened one of my 7 bottles of the Midas Toudhish concoction today. It was very good. I made this brew with White Condord gapes, local honey and DME. I added to it hops grown in my back yard, yarrow from my hunt camp, saffron ( a gift from my daughter in Spain) and some Saaz hops. I only...

I took this years wild turkey, a big Long Beard and made some turkey sausage of of him. He was an older bird so I thought why not try sausage. I used sage,thyme and garlic as well as salt and pepper. Taste great. Now to fire up the smoker

First one was 25 years ago, then I made one with the honey from the first batch ie: 25 year old honey, in 2016. This one tastes like Sherry I guess it is from the aged honey very nice now my third batch made with local honey from the Meadery near by. Drudids Choice 2021.

I live in Ontario. Married a Canuk so here I am greet place to live. Moved from Hastings Mi to Toronto area. I can get back home in 7 hrs to see family/ Best of both worlds.

Bottled the second batch of mead back sweeten 3 gallons of mead with 2 Table Spoons of honey what a big difference a little honey made to the taste. Now to wait.