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Hello, A few months ago I prepared my very first mead, it seems to be ready now and in fact I've already tried a sip of it and tastes wonderful. However, I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to add dried cranberries into 3 or 4 bottles on the day I bottle the whole batch to "dry hop"...

Hello again! Yesterday I was about to brew my very first all-grain beer, I want to do a double infusion because I will be using a German Pils Malt and also because I want to learn this technique once and for all :D So here's my "protocol", I calculated the volumes needed using beer smith's...

Hello again, I've finally got the recipe for the Imperial Stout i'm going to brew: Coronel D. Imperial Stout Batch Size: 5.00 gal Ingredients 5.51 lb Munich Malt 5.51 lb Vienna Malt 1.10 lb Carafa I 1.10 lb Melanoiden Malt 1.10 lb Smoked Malt hops 1.00 oz Magnum...

Hello guys, There are no HomeBrew Stores near me, and those that can send me my beer supplies do not provide wine or mead supplies so I'd like to know if I could use any of the food suplements that are sold on naturist stores or places like GNC. I've read that it is also possible to use...

Hello again guys! I'm planning on doing an Imperial Stout and I want it to be dark, dense and strong (I'm also considering doing a Dry Stout or any other type that is dark, dense and strong). But I'm not sure about which hops should I use to make it strong and yet have that chocolate and...

Hello there! Since I'm about to go all-grain, I decided to grind my grains myself, however I don't have a mill or anything like that so my choices are: a) To use a ... uhm, I don't know the name of it (kitchen hammer? meat hammer? little hammer with spikes?) but here's the result...

Finally I'm going all grain, I created this recipe using the trial version of BeerSmith, so I'd like to know what do you guys think about it since almost all the recipes I've read use more grain than what I'm using. Here is my recipe: (Belgian based)Blonde Ale 1 Grains: 5.51 lb Pale...

Hello Fellow Mead Makers :D I would like to brew my first mead batch, however I can only get baker's and beer yeast because where I live (Mexico) mead is not popular, so I've got to use beer yeast. I read on the forum that it is possible to use Safale US-05 but I'd like to know if there are...

Hello there, I've got a couple of questions here: 1) Recently a friend of mine gave me a few hop seeds, I'm planning on planting them and using them for my homebrew recipes, however he doesn't know what kind of hops this are, is there some way to identify my hops once they've grown? I'd...

Hello there! I'm finally going to try my very first recipe. I designed it using the trial version of BeerSmith 1.4and I'd like to make a Red Ale (I used the sugested amounts for an Irish Red Ale) and here is what I got: Irish Red Ale Malt extract and grains (all weyermann) 6.17 lb...

Hello everyone! I'm getting ready to brew my first all-grain batch. I used the trial version of beersmith to do my recipe, however I'm not sure of how to get an approximate brewhouse efficiency since I've only used malt extracts (getting between 60-75% B. efficiency). I thought of assuming...

Hello there, I'm getting ready to brew an Irish Red Ale, I've picked up the best ingredients (I think) from my brewery store, however I'd like you to sugest me wich of these yeast would be better since I'm not sure about it: Safale Us04 (Fermentis) or Windsor Yeast (Lallemand)...

Hello there! Last week I started brewing my first batch of beer, I chose Cooper's Wheat hopped extract and followed the instructions. However, there are no bubbles in my airlock, when I checked it I could smell the beer and it smells like bread dough and also my hidrometer readings haven't...