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Well, after completely halting my beer-making a few weeks ago and selling all of the beer-related gear, I gave a lot of thought to trying wine again. I tried it in the nineties but it was pretty crappy stuff. I think I can attribute that to cheap kits and not really knowing anything about...

*** I am selling EVERYTHING *** All equipment is in Cochrane, ON. Shipping is not included; however, we do go to Toronto sometimes and we are going to Ottawa during the March Break via North Bay. Everything is in perfect condition. 50 litre (or so) cooler-type MLT (used 5 times)$150 - bulkhead...

I just ordered a number of rhizomes from Sandra Gowan at Seeds to Blooms in Winnipeg, MB: Home She charges $5 per rhizome + GST + shipping which was $15 for my order. She told me that the following will be available this spring (note that her site shows Zeus but they are unavailable)...

Not sure, but I think it'll be a Cream of Three Crops or Tankhouse Ale. Happy New Year all. B

I thought I knew how to adjust recipes. I thought wrong. Please show me why this special-to-me in my grandfather's memory ale flopped so badly: 3.85 # LME at T60 3.85 # LME at T5 Grains steeped for 30 min prior to addition of LME: 1/2 oz choc malt steeped for 30 min 4 oz munich malt 30...

I'm looking and looking and asking and reading. Please direct me to a thread with a schematic and design pics: - has one 120v element in the HLT - has two 120v elements in the BK where both can run to bring up to boil then turned down to maintain a boil - I like the idea of a contactor...

The more I read the more I find new avenues to explore in brewing. Not only did I have to convert my turkey fryer kettle to an HLT and make a keggle... now I have to convert from propane to electric and am finding it absolutely fascinating as I explore the possibilities. The HBT reading...

Over the past few months I have been building up my equipment. Now with a keggle and HLT with SS valves, a cooler-MLT. All with QD hoses. Working towards more automation. I now find myself at the stage of wanting to brew indoors. Where I live it can easily get down to -40°C in mid-January. So...

If this post is disrespectful, please remove it, though I think it is not. Yesterday being Remembrance Day and this year being 11-11-two-oh-11 I chose to brew a batch. It was my first brew that I set up using software but had no name for it. Then it came to me - at the Cenotaph service...

Over the past few weeks I have been contemplating updating my equipment. Specifically I wanted to add some stainless valves to my BK and HLT so I don't harm myself by dropping a big pot of hot liquid onto myself. On Friday I called Chris at Hop Dawgs and without me quite knowing what I wanted...

Recently I moved to A.G. though I also do some extract and BIAB. Over the weekend I figured out what I needed to make the process a little easier and safer. I ordered some SS weldless valve/bulkhead fittings for both my BK and my HLT as well as a thermometer and weldless fitting to mount it...

My few-months saga of the wicked three (ie three batches that flopped) is over. Lost to the annals of my homebrewing history are my initial forays into Sierra Nevada PA and Amarillo PA. I had heard LOTS of great things about these two brews so I brewed them both. Then ran into a bad yeast issue...

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/canadian-craft-brewers-turn-passion-into-profit-7 Brent

Thanks to all who added input. This morning I had some time so I pulled out my brew sheets for the three bad batches. I had been racking (no, not the kind with a racking cane, LOL) my brain trying to figure out what had gone wrong THREE TIMES!!! As soon as I went over the ingredients...

Sorry to bother, but... I just read a response to conditioning temp and was wondering something, which is why I had subscribed to that thread. With a few of my brews lately I have come up with a taste that is not great. Now, how to describe the flavour, I'm not really sure, but possibly what...

I went to a dinner at one of the nearby Legion Halls where an air cadet squadron was celebrating its 70th anniversary. It was nice. However... I was excited to see Alexander Keith's Red Amber Ale in the fridge (mind you, only two of them) so I ordered one. I had never tried this beer. The...

There are a number of 'shoulds' and 'musts' with brewing but sometimes it can be ok to do something a little different. Yes, I sanitize. Yes, I boil my AG for 60 to 90 minutes. But, is there anything you do that goes against the prevailing wisdom and yet still works out fine? For me...

So. Last month I decided on a trip to Europe to cycle and sample the beer and wine. I bought a tablet comp to keep in touch with home and the world. There I was at Pearson International Airport with people, security and such all around. I decided to check in on the HBT threads as I do at...

A few weeks back I returned from a bicycling trip along the Danube from Vienna to Budapest. Being that close to Germany and their beer knowledge I expected somewhat of a tasty selection of beer. Stunned was I to find that they were all fairly fizzy and light lagers. I asked most places what...

I just returned from a bicycling trip from Vienna through Bratislava to Budapest. At one point I looked down and thought to myself that the vines growing on the ground, on telephone poles and buildings kind of looked like hops. I finally stopped and checked it out and sure enough, growing all...