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Over the weekend, I brewed a Red IPA using the hopburst technique, inspired by Jamil's Evil Twin. My measured OG was 1.070 and I used 2 oz each of Amarillo, Centennial, and Citra all in the last 20 minutes. I bought one extra ounce of each hop with the intent of dry-hopping with some...

I got a Johnson temperature controller for Christmas and received a free deep freeze from my parents (Score!!!) and plan on using this for my fermentation chamber. The deep freeze is out in my garage which is currently about 55 degrees. I have an IPA fermenting that I made with WLP060 with a...

I'm going to bottle my Bourbon Barrel Porter from Northern Brewer tonight (it's been in the secondary with the Maker's Mark and Oak for one month now...crazy excited). Anyway...I went to LHBS to get corn sugar to use for bottling and all they had were rather large bags of it so I opted for...

I recently bought the Tongue Splitter IPA recipe kit from Northern Brewer and read several comments saying that it was a little bit light for the amount of hops they use. I would like to add something to provide additional alcohol and sweetness. One person suggested honey, so I am thinking of...

I am planning on brewing a cherry wit that I found on here using fresh cherries from my parents trees. The recipe calls for putting pasteurized cherry slurry into the secondary. I am thinking about putting the cherries in a blender and then boiling the resulting slurry and letting it cool. Is...

So I am planning on brewing a saisson from Northern Brewer (this is my 4th brew, so I guess I still count as a noob) on Saturday and my kit came with the Wyeast liquid saisson yeast in the foil pouch. The NB instructions say that the yeast could take up to several days to activate, so I...