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Im very interested in pursuing some sort of professional education in brewing, rather than just going on everything ive taught myself, but every school that offers some sort of degree or what-have-you always has to do with chemistry and therefore you need a background in science to get into it...

So i made Orfy's Hobgoblin clone around the end of may, and left it in a closet for 3 months. Just kegged it up not too long ago. The beer is fantastic. its one of the best beers I think Ive made yet, but it doesnt taste like Hobgoblin. not at all really. the thing tastes like a wheat beer and I...

Just had a few of the Flying Monkeys Brewery in Barrie, Ontario's Hoptical Illusion Almost Pale Ale, and was wondering if anyone had a recipe to make this stuff. I really like it and would love to have it on tap. ALthough most of you guys will probably have never even heard of it before because...

I was wondering, I would be planting in Southern Ontario, and was wondering if its too late into the season to plant some hop rhizomes. I would only be getting a chance to plant some this weekend, and was wondering do you guys think I should wait until next year, or could it still be okay right...

Okay so I was brewing a beer with a projected gravity of 1.092. It was almost all extracts with some steeping grains and I used beercalculus.com to calculate how much extract I would need for this gravity. I added the entire amount of extract to the beer, and for some reason my gravity only came...

So my brother wants me to teach him how to brew, and he told me that he wants to brew mainly lagers. While this obviously isnt going to happen for his first brew, I understand that Kolsh's can be lager like and good replacements when lagering isnt possible. Although Ive never made a Kolsh...

I was going to brew two beers this weekend: A dark belgian tripel, and a hobgoblin clone. However, in a week and a half I am going to be leaving for about 3 months. is it a good idea to make these if they will be sitting in the primary for 3 months? Or should I just wait until I get back?

I tried to culture the yeast from a few different bottled conditioned commerical beers, and each time it always gets infected or something and I just dont get it! What Im basically doing is making a really really really tiny beer (volume wise), pitching in the lees in the bottom of the bottle...

hey so this may be a strange request to ask of you guys but I need some help! Im a member of this site called lockerz.com and its like a site for young idiots like me who want free stuff ! haha. well I ened 20 people to sign up from an invitation I sent so I was wodnering if some of you guys...

tell me what u think of this Belgian Strong Dark Ale recipe. 7.9# Light LME 2# High Malt Glucose 1# Special B malt 1# Inverted Sugar 8 oz Amber Malt 2 oz Hallertau 60 minutes 1 oz East Kent Goldings 30 minutes 1 oz Saaz 15 minutes. Yeast cultured from a bottle of Chimay Red.

my LHBS sells stuff called High malt Glucose, and I cant really find stuff on it here. It is significantly cheaper than LME, but I dont know it is a substitute for LME. can someone help clarify what and when exactly this stuff is used?

2.3 kg Light LME 900 g Munich malt 340 g Crystal 20L 230 g Chocolate Malt 230 g Roasted Barley 85 g Irish Cream Coffee Beans 85 g Nothern brewer Hop Pellets (7%) 1 tsp Irish Moss Include 85 g of ground coffee beans in the Mash with the malt. Mash for 60 minutes at 155f. All 85g of...

Why is it that you guys havent adpoted the metric system yet. lol I dont get it and it drives me crazy every time I try and use american recipes and have to convert them into how i have my ingredients or changing them yada yada. You guys are among 3 countries in the entire world that doesnt use...

So I know its fairly common knowledge that beer made with extracts only are really plain and lacking alot, but from reading about the malt extract that Briess offers, i was wondering, are the steeping grains as necessary in conjuntion with these extracts as they are with normal ones? it seems...

So I was in residence last year and purchased a fine little fridge to get me through the year. it was never overly cold, and always had it cranked up to as cold as it could get. Well since then I have converted it into a kegerator. But am now having some strange problems it it... I put a...

Wow, So I did a partial mash tonight. I bought a little extra grain because I thought I was going to get terrible terrible efficiency (like less then 60%) but low and behold I ended up according to Beercalculus.com getting 87% mash efficiency!!!!!!! Im so excited!!!

I was just curious why a longer primary is really beneficial? why is it better to primary for 3 weeks and then bottle and wait 3 weeks instead of just primary for a week or 2 and then wait in the bottle for 4 or 5 weeks? what happens in the primary that doesnt once its bottled?

what do you guys think of this american stout recipe? its only for 1 gallon PM 1 # Light LME 8 oz Munich 8 oz Crystal 20 2 oz Chocolate Malt 2 oz Roasted Barley 0.5 oz crushed coffee beans 0.125 oz Northern Brewer (60 minutes) 0.125 oz Northern Brewer (30 minutes) whadya think?

So the zellers near my house has had a few beer kits for awhile now but apparently they are not selling at all, because a friend of mine who works there is telling me they will be sold for about $7 or $8 a piece pretty soon because they just want to get rid of them. how does this sound to you...

Okay this is either going to seem stupid as hell, or completely brilliant, I havent decided yet.. Ive been bouncing this idea around for a little while. Now what do people think about this..... do you think its possible to do a full boil inside your oven... like not on the stovetop but like...