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We took our first attempt at making cheese today. The cheese we chose to make was mozzarella. We followed this recipe: http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-homemade-mozzarella-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-174355 the only problem was that the rennet was slow to set the milk. after 40...

This doesn't feel like the right place to post this, but I think that this is the right audience to answer this question. In a week I will be going to Austin TX for business. I am going to be downtown near the convention center. I'd really like to find some good brew pubs to eat (and drink!)...

For my first sour beer I decided to do it with raspberries and brettanomyces lambicus. To start, I fermented a basic beer as the base with brittish ale yeast. After two weeks I transferred that beer to the secondary on top of 4.5 pounds of raspberries. I put 6 campden tables in to kill any...

I'm pretty new to wine/mead, but experienced with beer. I've only made a handful of batches of both wine and mead. Given that, I recently made a batch of peach wine. After active fermentation I racked it over to a secondary. The state of which you can see in the picture below. It is still...

I am working on honing in my scotch ale recipe. I read that the Scotts would not use cyrstal malts to obtain carmel flavors. Instead they would camelize in the kettle (boil kettle I think) to obtain a maltier camelization. I don't understand how to obtain carmelization in the kettle when I do...

Since I have been homebrewing, I have noticed that when I drink commercial beer it really hits me hard. For example, in the evening if I drink 4 commercial beers in 6 hours I'll wake up hot and have trouble getting back to sleep. This is the case with almost any macro bottled beer. Micro or...

So I've been fertlizing my lawn with spent grains (and some corn meal glutten to keep weeds down). These are the results.

Unfortunately, a special yeast I ordered (Wyeast Greenbelt strain) got a hole in it! Ugh! To try and save it I made a yeast starter. I plan to do a two step propagation because I lost and unkown amount of yeast, but there was enough to do a starter. I think it will take me until Wednesday or...

I think I might go overboard when cleaning my kegs and lines. I'm hoping I can do a little less cleaning after getting some feedback from you all. Here is what I do every time I finish a beer and get ready to put a new one in: 1. Take apart the faucet, soak it in oxyclean solution, rinse...

I thought my most recent beer was suffering from chill haze, so it has been sitting for a month, but it is still hazy. Fyi, I know it's not trub because I rarely get much trub in the keg. Even if I do, then it its clearing by now. I realized tonight that something else might be causing the...

Why is It that I will keg a beer and it will be super clear, but after it sits in the fridge for a few days it gets way cloudy. What is causing this? Is there any way to keep my berr clear once I keg and chill it? After a month they clear up, but I just don't understand what is going in here...

I recently learned that I should not use dish soap to clean my brewing equipment because that can affect head retention. I have been having an issue with head retention, so... yeah, time to stop using dish soap. I'm about to brew another beer and I'd like to try and eliminate any soap residue...

Hi All - I made a cherry lemon lime soda for my boy for his birthday. When I drink a mug of it, I start feeling a little strange, kind of like I'm floating. I'm not the only one that gets this. My wife also feels the same way and my boy gets tons of energy. I suspect this side effect is from...

Edit: I guess there is a lot of fluff in this post, but it is good fluff. :-) I put the important stuff in bold. I'm making a groaning ale because my wife will be having our fourth child in February! for those that don't know a groaning alle was prepared by a woman when she learned she was...

The title of this post pretty much just describes what happened to me. I just had a 15lbs CO2 tank re-certified and filled. I brought it home and set it out by my kegerator in my garage. I started doing some work in the garage when all of the sudden I hear BAM!!!! PISSSSHHHHH.... I look...

Does anyone know where I can get some peach blossom honey? A Google search reveals two places online that sell it, but they were uncertain at this time if they will have it this year. What I will be using this for is to back sweeten my peach mead. thanks!

Ok, the title says it all. I've made a scotch ale and its been in the primary vessel for about 4 weeks. This is the first time I've left a beer in the primary vessel for the entire fermentation. At this point, it should be ready to put into the keg, right? I feel a strong need to put it into a...

I've got two Bowie Bottler problems. The first is that the original thread discussing this product is gone. It was at https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f41/bottling-wand-perlick-525-75-aka-bowie-bottler-228344/. What gives? Does anyone know why it is gone? I was going to post this issue there. Oh...

I've heard of people skipping a secondary fermentation and just the beer condition in the primary. I can understand why they do this, less risk of infection, etc... but what are the risks associated with letting the beer condition in the primary? Should the beer really sit on the yeast trub...

What should the tank pressure gauge read with a newly filled tank? I just switched primary regulators for troubleshooting. The one i switched to had a tank pressure gauge that i have never used, so i am unsure what it should read. It hasn't read above 1000psi since i hooked it up, so i feel...