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What's up with Hops Direct? Are they not showing which year the hops were harvested anymore? Edit: Nevermind, they must've just added "*NEW 2012 CROP*" to the new ones. I'm sure they were bombarded with people asking which ones were 2012.

This is what they call a weizenheimer... What is it really?

I'm curious about the distribution in age of us homebrewers. At 30, my body is falling apart, and I'm pretty sure some of the more difficult tasks in homebrewing will eventually keep me from brewing or force me to upgrade to a much more expensive system. I'm also curious at what age...

I needed a new battery for a garage door remote and so I went on eBay and found several of them. I put a bid on one that was at 6 cents with free shipping and had 30 minutes left in the auction and I bidded $1 (thinking that I might even get outbid.) My bid went in at 11 cents and nobody else...

I used too much phosphoric acid in my mash. Can I counter the phosphoric acid with baking soda? Has anyone tried this? Did you get good results?

There is a common question in this forum about using the pressure gauge to determine how much CO2 is remaining, so I created this diagram to show the cycle of a CO2 tank going from full to empty. You cannot use the pressure gauge to determine the amount of liquid CO2 that you have remaining...

I've noticed that on a couple of brewing programs (Beersmith 2 and Brewtarget), the color (SRM) of the resulting beer is based on the ingredients used, but they do not factor in efficiency. The color should be correlated to the efficiency. Are the colors that they show for your brews based...

Has anyone tried a UV sanitizing wand instead of StarSan/Iodophor? Amazon just had a gold box deal on this one: Sanitizing Wand It is normally $70 and was on sell for $40. Has anyone tried one? Does anyone know how well it would work in homebrewing? Maybe it could be used to sanitize...

I had a bottle of Anchor Steam sitting in my keezer set to 40°F with a couple of kegs and a couple of other bottles and I went to pour myself a pint of my delicious APA last night and noticed that the bottle of Anchor Steam was shredded and there is an inch of beer at the bottom. :(

I decided to try not stirring during my 60-minute Saccharification Rest on my last brew. So many people on HBT claim that the stirring in the middle of the rest doesn't affect anything, and I don't want to waste energy doing something that is unnecessary. I stirred after adding the grains...

So I had a chance to chat a little bit with Brendan Moylan last night, owner and founder of Moylan's Brewery and Marin Brewing Co. I'm a big fan of Old Blarney Barleywine and their other beers and I am going to brew a barleywine at some time over the next few weeks, so I decided to ask him...

So... I made my 1st lager and I screwed up quite a few things. I was aiming for an american lager...but it is obvious now that I was nowhere near that. Here is the recipe: 3 lbs of flaked corn. 4 lbs of pilsner malt. 1 oz of Saaz (3.2%AA) at 60 minutes My screwups: 1. I used too much...

Name: LVBen's IIPA Style: IIPA Type: All Grain Batch Size: 5 gallons 60 minute boil Estimated Efficiency: (77.5%) Est Original Gravity: 1.084 SG Est Final Gravity: 1.021 SG Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 8.20 % Bitterness: 102.3 IBU Calories: 386 cal/pint Est Color: 5.1 SRM 14.00 lb...

There is a strange taste in beers that I've been drinking in the last week or so. I don't know how to describe it other than to say it tastes like dirt. They are all hoppy commercial beers - Rogue Brutal Bitter, Stone IPA, other IPAs, and they are beers that I've had before which never had...

Any suggestions as to where to get cheap dry ale yeast? Some places have flat shipping, and the cost for 1 packet of yeast from them is like $13 ($3 + $10 S&H). Why can't I find somewhere that sells yeast for $1 and throws it in an envelope with a 44 cent stamp? Some day, I might start...

I'm starting off with a few Mr. Beer kits and then I will move toward brewing with extracts and fresh hops. I already bought 2 5-gallon glass carboys, and after I accidentally banged them together, I still have one left. (Yeah, I'm only buying plastic from now on). I just ordered a capper and...