Search results

man do i love winter..... at least as far as beer making goes since i have a dedicated "beer room" i can crank down the heat in it and lager perfectly. and my first lager beer is now 3 weeks aged and man does it taste goooooood.:mug: i highly recomend to you newbies out there, if its...

ok, i havent read alot of beer posts, but as i sit here munching wasabi peas and drinking my most recent brew, a pilsner lager:mug:, i wonder why not try a wasabi beer. i know that people have made chilli peper beer. do you think wasabi will work and if so, how much to use?

im kinda feeling like making a hopless beer, and although i know that before hops, they used gruit, and i know that gruit contains mainly bog myrtle(sweet gale), yarrow and wild rosemary. WHERE CAN I BUY THEM!?!?!?!? ive checked my usual first try's google shopping and ebay. and even...

ok heres a simple question for you experts. i recently cleaned out my fidge and found that i have two yeast samples taken from previous batches of beer and applewine respectively. to take both of them , i swirled the yeast cake at the bottom, let it settle a little and then poured off about...

sitting here tonight and by complete accident found a way to pour a bottle of homebrew with no yeast getting into the glass. i had to put my bottles in the fridge on thier sides, and after sitting in there 2 days i see that if i turn the bottle so the side the yeast has settled to is up, i can...

ok, i know im stupid for asking but, im bottle carbing my beer, and i just realized tonight that my current batch has a quirk. if i dont completely chill my homebrew in the fridge, my beer explodes! its like i shook up my beer before i open it, but it only happens if it even slightly warm...

my wife is a candy maker, and she makes caramelcorn all the time. It seems like the same thing as procedures for making invert/belgain candi sugar. am i right?

just did a double brewday yesterday. One batch of edworts apelweifen, and my second partial mash from my own recipe. anyone wanna add thier thoughts to my beer recipe? Gildogs Creamy Pale Ale 1 can extra light extract 2 lbs pilsner malt 1 lb pale malt 1 lb hominy grits .5 lb table...

My jamaican brother in law was jsut over for my last brewsession, and he brought red stripe, Just one taste and i knew i had to try and clone this. anyone got a recipe? even a style to shoot for woudl be great its unlike most comercial beers ive had.

Im in the middle of dealing with a horrible first attempt at partial mash...(see my other posts)... and im loving it? For some reason i am actually enjoying this brew more than my first even though its been a complete clusterf..k since the word go, anyone else out there kinda hope that...

i just did my first partial mash today, and i have to say it was horrible. I was using cooked rice and pilsner barley, i steeped at a temp of 155 degrees for 60 minutes, and when it was done, i had lost 3 degrees, but i got NO conversion, i basically had starchy water nothing more, but i...

ok, so about 2 days after bottling my last beer, i finally got to trying yeast washing, i added boiled water to my trub in the bucket (had been covered and sealed for the last 2 days FYI) swirled it good and let it sit for 20 mins or so, i then syphoned off the top part into a mason jar and...

hi again all. well about 10 days ago i brewed my first beer, an american wheat, and i cant say i didnt rush everything, i bottled it after 6 days, and i just opened my first bottle 2 days after bottling, and yknow what? ITS AWSOME!! even being as green as it is I have to say its better than...

heres my first recipe, im brewing tommarow. i need to know, how long and what temp. should i steep at? Amber Cream ale 1.5 Lbs grits 3.25 lbs Amber LME 3 lbs pilsner malt 1 oz palisade hops (7.4 alpha 8.4 beta value) going to try to reuse my last ale yeast after a wash how long...

i was just doing some research on malt before brewing my second batch, and i came across a source that said that carapils malt needs another malt to break down the starches. i just bought 3 lbs of grain label simply "pilsner" from the LHBS and im worried, am i going to have to go get another...

i live a ways away from my lhbs and im wondering, what ingredients can i get from my grocery store that i can use in brewing, aka will rolled oats work? regular rice, how about grains? most importantly a list of the different sugars, is corn syrup the same as corn sugar? and what about cane sugar?

anyone know how black pepper would ferment out in a beer? i know grains of paradise are commonly used in some recipes, and they are related to black pepper, anyone tried peppercorns in thier beer, howd it turn out?

hey all, quick question, ive been trying to come up with an alternative to hops as a bittering agent. My wife absolutely dispises all things hoppy, and i want to try a beer with absolutley no hops in it. i know hops is a recent ingredient in beer, so what did they use before it?

ok i know im going to sound like a noob, but ive searched the forums and i cant find a procedure for yeast weashing, anyone got a link for me?