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In a few hours my local homebrew club is getting together to do what we all do best, brew beer. Today however has a special twist, there are about 20 members and each was instructed to bring one ingredient of whatever you wanted to put into a 10gal garbage can batch. I've got a few ideas on...

I started this "Je Suis Légion Bretted Saison" back on Feb 27 and pitched Wyeast French Saison, 2 weeks later racked to secondary on 2 vials of WLP655 Belgian Sour Mix. I now have a nasty pellicle on the surface with some dried cherries floating in it, and I have a couple of questions as this...

Last night I was drinking an Ommegeddon with brett and glanced over at my carboy of aging cyser, glanced at the slurry in the bottom of my bottle and I got this idea. I brewed the cyser with 5 gallons apple juice, 7lbs honey, 1lb crystal 40L, and pitched nottinghams. Its been sitting four...

Je Suis Légion Soured Saison Saison Type: All Grain Date: 2/27/2011 Batch Size: 5.00 gal Brewer: Ryan Karcher Boil Size: 6.00 gal Asst Brewer: Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: Brew Pot (6+gal) and Igloo/Gott Cooler (5 Gal) Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0 Brewhouse Efficiency...

Last halloween I made apfelwein and have been very pleased with it all year, and I was going to make more this year. However, I was just at costco and got 5lbs of clover honey and 4 gallons of tree top apple juice...see where I'm going with this? I'm going to add the 5lbs of honey to the apple...

Come All Ye Faithful Christmas Ale Spice, Herb, Vegetable Beer Type: All Grain Date: 9/28/2010 Batch Size: 5.00 gal Brewer: Ryan Karcher Boil Size: 3.53 gal Asst Brewer: Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: BREWTREE- 15 Gallon Brewing System Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0...

This is going to be epic. I'll let you all know of the flavors.

Im looking for an extract recipe that will give me the malty sweetness of the DFH 90min IPA but I don't need to follow the same hop bill. How would I get a really malty sweet profile to use as a base and then hop however I want? I would like to be able to hit the 9% abv mark so what extract in...

I brewed my first Hefe on 1/5 and I bottled on the 24th. I put a couple in grolsh bottles so I could check carb levels. I just popped one and it was carbed up good enough to taste so I poured a small glass. It tastes like a hefe should but then on the back end of the draw there's this lemony...

I know it recommends 58-68 being optimal fermentation conditions and I could probably hold in that range, but just because I'm curious I've lowered it a bit further. Does anyone know anything about this yeast and its characteristics at different temps? Right now it's holding at 56.5F and it's...

I have a book of extract recipes and tonight I just brewed one up. I'm not exactly sure how I should be fermenting this initially and long term for the best results. Here is the recipe. 6 2/3 lbs Pale LME 2 lbs Dark DME 1 lbs Crystal 40L 2 oz Chocolate Malt 2 oz tettnager @ 60 1 oz...

I've searched for a clone of the Vitus and have come up empty. Does anyone have any ideas on an extract clone recipe for this delicious weizenbock?

Jay Leno Should Retire So Conan O'brien Doesn't Walk.. Leno has had his time, let coco have his. I loved last night when Conan said, "Kids, you can do anything you want to do, unless of course Jay Leno wants to do it too"

So some of you may have seen my original post about my wine all of a sudden tasting really acrid. I though this could have been from sitting on the isinglass too long but that stuff is nearly flavorless. The next idea I had is this. I just moved into a new house and I put my 5 gal carboys...

Can I reuse it?

I live in Novi and can't find a mineral profile of the water. I'd like to add at least a geographically close location as my local water in beersmith... anyone?

This one that I found in the recipes for instance. Recipe Type: All Grain Yeast: WLP300 Hefeweizen Yeast Starter: Yes Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.052 Final Gravity: 1.007 IBU: 11.7 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: SRM 3 Primary...

Is anyone familiar with this beer? I had it when I was in Hawaii and would be interested in a recipe or maybe if someone in Hawaii wants to trade for some michigan micro i'd be open to that too.

6nPA99OTkwg I'm doing a Stephe Hefe clone and pitched my WY3068 24 hours ago. My lid isn't so air tight so I put 40lbs of weight on the top to seal it up. I've never used this yeast or made a hefe before. For me this is INSANE fermentation. What do you guys think?

This is my first Hefe brew and I used 3068 with only 2" of head space. To top it off while looking for my lid that came with this bucket I stepped on it and cracked it. The only alternative was this shipping lid. As you can see it's not very air tight. How big of a problem is this for me? Should...