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I'm in the process of brewing this Summer Ale recipe that I threw together today. 5# Light pils LME 2# Malted wheat 2# 6-row 1# Corn sugar Nottingham yeast 1.5 oz Hallertau @ 60 minutes Any thoughts or suggestions?

Our best brew so far has been from an american amber ale kit from the LHBS. It has great body and flavor. It also has a good stiff head that lasts. Is it the 60L crystal malt that gives it such good head retention? If so, can I use malto dextrin and get the same results? Here's the recipe: 4...

I'm a cheap skate when it comes to certain things and making beer is one of them. Propane isn't cheap and I tend to use a lot when brewing up a batch. I decided that I'd take a stab at making a rocket stove and see if it would boil water. I didn't think it would work but, I figured I'd still...

I opened the door to my Bier Klozzit this morning to find a blown fermentor. I brewed this batch Wednesday evening and fermentation started later that night and it was bubbling twice a second by morning. I don't know when it blew but, the splatter on the wall is dry. I assumed that I didn't need...

Yesterday I chilled some bottles of my second brew down so I could drink them tonight. When I put them in the fridge, I noticed that one of them had white stuff inside the glass where the head space area is. When we drank them tonight, I made sure I got that one because, I wanted to see what it...

We went to a Cajun restaurant this evening and the waitress siad they had Abita beers. I've heard of Abita but, never tried any. The first one I got was the amber ale and I must say, it was pretty smooth for an amber and I liked it. I decided to try a different one and got a Jackamo. She brought...

I bottled my third batch last night. It's an American Amber LME kit from my LHBS. It had been fermenting for 16 days and the SG had stabilized. My first two were lighter beers and they were fine with bottling them after two weeks. I tasted some of the AA out of the bottling bucket and it had a...

I want to make the same cream ale kit that we did on our first batch. This will be our fifth batch of beer so far. It's a really good brew but, it's slightly hoppier than what I like and WAY hoppier than what the wife likes. It says in the instructions that it's a 16 IBU beer but, I gotta...

The wife and I took a trip today and toured the Woodford Reserve Distillery. There are a bunch of Distilleries in a small area that they call the Bourbon trail but, Woodford is the one we drink the most. It was pretty amazing but, I'm fascinated by things that some would consider boring. They...

We had a bunch of friends and relatives over for a cookout Saturday and I chilled a couple 6 packs of our first batch to drink. I'm happy to say that everyone liked it (at least they said they did). They drank the whole bottle anyway. A few people said that it was the first homebrew that they...

Last night the wife and I bottled our second batch, a custom kit from our LHBS. It tasted great out of the bucket, much better than the first. So we start bottling and after about ten bottles, I realize that I forgot the priming sugar. While I'm gently pouring the beer back into the fermenter...

The wife and I bottled our first batch a week ago (2nd and 3rd still fermenting). It's a partial mash cream ale from our LHBS. When we bottled it, we tasted it and while it resembled beer, it tasted like crap. The wife lost all confidence that it would ever taste good even though I kept telling...

I went to my LHBS (Listermann's) to buy another fermenting bucket and some other stuff. When I was checking out, I asked if they knew where I could get Rhizomes. I was surprised when he said we got them. So I bought one Hallertau Rhizome, just to see if I have any luck with them. I have two...

I've been lurking here for about a month and at first I was going to try a hopped LME. With all that I've learned from this forum and other net resources, I've decided to go straight to all grain. Today I bought the hardware for my Lauter Tun. This should be a lot of fun. The wife is into it...