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So I was on a diet from August 'til December or so... and lost a ton of weight ~ 45 lbs. I didn't have any beer on this diet at all...! Well... since then, I have been drinking beer again (and some whiskey here and there). And now, almost 5 months later, I'm a solid 38B. I swear... if it...

Are there any problems with putting in a duct from your keezer (set at ~1°F) into a fermentation and/or casked ale chamber? My thought is to set up the keezer with a duct to an insulated secondary chamber. The duct would be controlled w/ PC Fan and temp controller. The 2nd chamber would be kept...

I tasted my Flanders last weekend when I was finishing up another beer (Westvleteren 12 clone). It was only slightly sour with a very strong cherry flavor and it was very oakey, which faded after a while in the glass. I used an medium toast oak spiral. I know it's only 6 months, but how much...

I need to send in a Berliner Weisse. Is my only option 375mL Belgian bottles w/ corks and hoods?

I know there's a law that the homebrewer must be 18 or older (>=21 in some states). Is there any such law for the assistant brewer? What are the competition rules? I'm just curious - sometimes the kids like to help out ;) They deserve the big win almost as much as I do!

Facebook sent me to this homebrewing school via an ad: http://******************.com/better-home-brew-formula I think they even promise you'll lose weight after buying their product. That's how it comes across... as a fake weight loss drug info-vertisement. I'm just wondering if...

I want to send a couple beers in, but work has IE7. It's locked, can't upgrade, can't use a different browser! Just how quickly does registration fill up??

A: Apparently in Japan. I visited last week, went to a Beer Festival, and was brought to a package store that sold it by the local homebrewers group. I bought a brick for list price, ¥8400 (plus the additional $ conversion and tax). They had two more boxes sitting there. The festival was...

Android phones have a keyboard program called Swype. This lets you type a whole word quickly, without lifting your finger from the phone (no tapping). The name "Duvel" draws a pentagram on the phone. This doesn't quite work on a standard computer keyboard, but you can see how it would if you...

My recipe (from BCS): 12 lbs Pilsner malt Mash stayed well under 150°F 3 oz Saaz [3.0%AA] @ 90 3 lbs sugar added at 20 OG 18.5°P (1.075) It has been a month to the day. I kegged the wort at 11°P (1.025 corrected per BS2). This is an ABV of 6.7%. It doesn't taste bad, still... but...

The video is a year old, but I found this while looking up malt conditioning & milling: ...and that's not all he did wrong! Wow, no wonder people think homebrew tastes awful.

Grains: 9 lb Pale Malt (I used Pearl) 5 lb Rye Malt 1 lb Munich Malt 1 lb Rice Hulls (to offset Rye) 6 oz Crystal 20°L 6 oz Crystal 40°L 6 oz Crystal 120°L Mashed 18 qt at ~150°F, 45 min Sparged w/ ~4.5 gal Boil Volume ~6.5 gal Equal amounts of Bravo (14.5%AA) and CTZ (15.4%AA) throughout...

If an example grain spec has: %FG = 80% (Fine Grain Extract Yield) %M = 4% (Moisture) G = 1 lb (mass of grain) V = 1 gal (vol of water) E = 100% (Mash efficiency - to make calculations easier) The mass of sugars M should be given by: M = G * (%FG - %FG * %M / 100) / 100 * E M =...

Sorry for bringing this up... I found a lot of searches and none really answered my question. I'm secondarying my first all grain (Apple Pie Ale) with a gallon of cider. The grain mashed at approx 145 for 15 minutes and 155 for 35 minutes. I'm expecting something with more alcohol and much...

Adapted from: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/whole-wheat-walnut-bread-recipe Ignore the ingredients, but follow the directions at the link above. Ingredients: ‎1T Oil 2T Brown Sugar 1.25t salt 3 oz Spent Grain 6 oz Whole Wheat Flour 6 oz White Flour 6g packet Munton's...

I did my first AG today. I have a few questions at the end of the post... first, my notes: My recipe - I built this off a brown ale with some of the tips from an Apple Pie Ale discussion elsewhere on HBT. So here's what happened... 1100 - Roasted Maris Otter (2 lbs of total) 1145 - Liquor at...

My recipe's already pretty set (already got the grain), but here's what it looks like before and after the LHBS: Apple Pie Ale (Brown Ale) 7 lbs Maris Otter 2 lbs Victory 1.5 lbs Crystal 60 0.25 lbs Chocolate 0.1 lbs Roasted Barley 1 oz Goldings @ 60 1 oz Goldings @ 15 Irish Moss @...

I was talking about home water use with my family and I wondered... What would you estimate the total amount of water used to brew a five gallon batch of beer? That includes washing bottles (keggers have the advantage here), making sanitizer, general cleaning of equipment, and of course...

I started a Hefeweizen Saturday night using DME and frozen WLP300... Came out to 6 gallons to meet my desired 1.048. I woke up this (Monday) morning to a biological spill (Sunday it was foaming a bit). I put the lid back on w/o the o-ring and the krausen has settled a lot, so I think I'll be...

I just checked my Hefeweizen, fermenting with WLP300. Because of advice from the reviews on White Labs' site I fermented it pretty cold at 60-62 (basement room temp). I had one day where the banana smell hit you in the face as you entered the room, but on this morning's tasting there was only a...