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.... by accident. A couple weeks ago, my LHBS had a chili cook off. I brought over a couple cooler bags with chili and some beer I had made along with me. I came home a little tipsy and just threw the bags in the kitchen. This past weekend I'm cleaning up the kitchen and go to finally put...

This one almost caused some severe injury. My room mates made a batch of beer on saturday, using my equipment, including the wort chiller. I decided to make a batch of beer the following day. Things were going fairly smoothly, only issue was I ran out of propane so I had to move the brew...

I am very excited. I knew the LHBS that I usually go to was going to move from South Philadelphia to my general neighborhood. Last I had talked with the owner, it was supposed to be about 10 blocks away. Then yesterday, I was driving home and saw that not only had he moved to my neighborhood...

Picked him up from a shelter last night. I named him Crowly. Not sure how much of a brew buddy he'll actually be, but he does follow me around. So maybe he'll hang our in the kitchen with me when I brew. OOOPS! Didn't mean to put this in this subforum. THis was intended to go in general...

*rant* A few weeks ago I brewed myself what was intended to be a clone of my favorite go-to craft beer Yards Philadelphia Pale Ale. I opened it this weekend to see how I did and found I was pretty damn close for having taken a stab in the dark at reproducing it (all I knew was it used pilsen...

I'm making a mulberry wheat using WLP300 and it's the first time making something using this particular strain. I know I pitched a bit too warm and overall temps during fermentation were more on the higher end of the temp range for the yeast. I took a sample for the hydrometer and found it has...

This weekend I had some friends over to brew a Mulberry Wheat. Mulberries grow wildly on the street around here, in another couple weeks the sidewalks are going to be stained purple. So we decided to go for a complete experimentation to see what we come up with. Recipe roughly as follows...

I just tried some Garlic Beer the other day. In the words of my brother in law, it's "not as bad as you'd think". Really, it tasted fine, a little more on the sour ale end of things. What made it hard to drink was the smell. The garlic aroma is just so over powering in the glass that it's...

After a recent disaster of a brew day, I decided to do some redesign on my mashtun. There was a basic change, like going from a 3/8th" valve to a 1/2. That alone is looking like it will work a whole lot better as it fits much better in my cooler, so it'll have a much cleaner seal. The other...

What a disaster of a brew day today has been. - I almost blew myself up trying to use my outdoor burner. - It started raining, forcing me to move inside to the stove (no biggie really) - Mash tun just would. not. drain. This totally threw the whole brew day to hell. What should have taken...

I've got a variety of random ingredients laying around, so I decided to throw a random recipe together based on what sounded like a good combination with no real specific target style (as I tend to do anyways). For a brew this weekend. Just about everything here, except for the Maris Otter is...

Some have talked about the curse of 1.02, particularly when it comes to extract recipes. I myself have experienced that curse many a time. Every time I get a stuck fermentation, it's ALWAYS at SG=1.02. I understand that extract has a certain level of unfermentables in it, but it seemed that...

I tried building myself a mashtun last night out of a cooler. The problem is that it still leaks slightly around the seal. I'm going to try some different gaskets to see if I can make the seal better - it might just be that the gasket that was in the cooler itself just sucks, but I'd like to...

I'm considering making mead for a wedding to be given out as gifts to guests. The wedding is a ways off so I have some time to do this. I figure an 8oz bottle per person, which if I assume 150 people, would make about little over 7 gallons worth of mead. The problem is the logistics of...

I seem to keep getting stuck with the 1.02 curse for my extract brews. I'm trying more and more stuff to get over this hurdle, currently I'm letting my beer ferment in a water bath with an aquarium heater (temp around 68-69 degrees ambient). I still seem to not be able to get below 1.02 in my...

A few days ago, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board raided three popular bars that specialize in serving craft beer - Memphis Tamproom, Local 44, and Resurrection Ale House, after receiving anonymous complaints. What were these complaints you ask? Front for prostitution rings? Drug sales...

Just out of curiosity mostly I ferment in a plastic bucket so I've never actually seen the krauzen form then fall back into the beer. It's usually been over a week before I open the fermenter to take a sample. So I have no idea what happens during that time. On saturday, I started...

I got a signed copy Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire by Pete Brown for xmas from my sister. The book is about the author who decides to retrace the route of an IPA. He has someone brew up a cask of IPA using a really old recipe, then takes it to...

I'm gonna take a crack at a smoked porter/stout partial mash and I'm looking for critiques before I buy the items needed. So far I've thrown this together. It's sorta random based on descriptions of the malts at AHB. 5lb Light DME 2lb Victory Malt 2lb Special Roast 1lb Chocolate malt 8oz...

I made a partial mash that contained: 4lb Light DME 8oz Honey malt 8oz dextrin 1lb crystal 20 1lb Marris Otter 1lb of the DME was added at the start of boil, the other 3lbs were late additions. Got an OG of ~1.053. Fermentation was vigorous within 24 hours and has been sitting in the...