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I recently purchased a just emptied 10 gal American rye whiskey barrel. Last night I transferred an American barley wine into the barrel, ~10.5 gal went in the barrel but I still have roughly 2.5" of head space between the beer and the bunghole. I will be aging this beer for at least 6 months in...

I will be brewing a 10 gal. batch of American style barleywine this weekend and inorder to get my gravity up in the range where I want it (1.090), I need to add some LME to the fermentables (looks to account for about 30%) since my mashtun can only handle 24lb of grain with the mash water at a...

I've been working on this project since mid December and thought I would share the progress here. I wanted a serving system that could handle 3 kegs and a large CO2 tank as well as a small beer gas cylinder without taking up too much floor space. For this I chose to use an ~7cf chest freezer...

For those of you who have decided to go with a dual hinge collar style keezer, have you used any type of latch to secure the top lid down to the collar when lifting the top two sections for keg/CO2 loading and unloading? I've got my design figured out and most everything ready for final...

in Colorado Springs, CO area. looking to purchase a used 10lb CO2 tank, relatively local would be awesome but will pay reasonable shipping. will consider 20lb tank depending on dimensions.

My heart goes out to anyone involved in this horrific scene. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near-finish-line-boston-marathon-spokesman-says/

I'm in the process of formulating a recipe for/with a friend for his wedding beer and am planning on hopefully brewing a test batch this weekend. He wants to make something wild with lots of traditional Thai spices, coconut and papaya. I'm not real worried about the coconut and the papaya since...

I am sofa king tired of people who do not have a sense of humor anymore. has anyone seen this? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/27/sofa-king-juicy-burger_n_2198432.html It is a clever joke, why are people getting offended by something so innocent?

This is quickly becoming one of my favorite styles so I decided it was time for me to try my hand at brewing one. I've done a fair amount of research and over the last couple days have come up with this first draft of a recipe. Belgian (Quad) Dark Strond - AG - Belgian Dark Strong Ale...

I was doing my first 10 gallon AG batch yesterday and made a mistake when calculating strike water temperature which I didn't catch until it was too late that got me thinking about rules of thumb or best practice methods when it comes to deciding what temperature to use for single infusion...

I had an opportunity last weekend to sample some homebrews that a homebrewer friend/co-worker of a good friend of mine gave him to sample. Since I have a feeling I might be asked for my opinion, and because I'm kinda curious as to why all of these beers are so sweet, I was hoping to get some...

I am not sure exactly how recently this kit was released or if it has been released before but I'm curious if anyone has tried it? I just ordered one anyway because I love Belgians and I love Stouts but to my knowledge I've never tried a Belgian Stout.

I know a couple of you but who all is active on HBT from the Colorado Springs area? any BBoPP members here that can tell me a little bit about the club?

So the title says it all and I have exhausted just about every way I know how to combat the issue. I started this batch on 1/15/12 with an OG = 1.060. I followed Brandon O's recipe almost exactly with one glaring mistake of sorts, the cider I chose being Tamarack Farms Apple cider, 100% juice...

I posed this question in a thread I started about a pumpkin ale that I brewed last month and unfortunately I keep getting overrun with people asking me questions about how to brew their pumpkin ale and no comments on what might have caused the slight tartness I am tasting in my reasonable young...

I brewed my annual pumpkin ale on Sunday which is always a big hit with everyone but this time I did something drastically different that I have never done before and am curious to hear opinions on how the change will effect the finished beer. the modification was purely dictated by my LHBS...

So I'm working on a recipe for my first attempt at a Belgian witbier that I am hoping to brew this weekend in honor of national homebrew day and wanted to get some feedback on the recipe I am putting together. Fermentables: 4.5 lb - Wheat DME 1 lb - Wheat malt .4 lb - flaked oats 1 lb...

Extract - Honey Nut Cheerio -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Recipe Type: Extract Yeast: Wyeast-Ringwood Ale 1187 Batch Size (Gallons): 5 Original Gravity: 1.066 Final Gravity: 1.020 IBU: 0.4 Boiling Time (Minutes): 6 Color: 18.4...