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hi all, I just threw together a sourdough starter using a half cup of spent 6-row (which I used to make a starter wort- way cheaper than extract if you've got the time!), a pinch of fresh 2-row, a cup of AP flour, and an 1/8th tsp bread yeast. I'm hoping to get a pronounced sourness from...

My prototype recipe is as follows: efficiency: 70% OG: 1.061 IBU: 42 SRM: 15.4 12 lbs Belgian pale malt 6 oz caramel wheat 6 oz special B 4 oz aromatic 3 oz roasted barley (added to the mash right before the sparge, for color) mash @ 152 75 min boil: 1 oz cascade @ 60 1...

hi, I'm looking to make a big beer for some time, and I think I want to make an imperial stout with a Belgian twist- and since Heart of Darkness takes place in the Belgian Congo, the name is a great fit. Here's the recipe I'm looking to make. I'll be pitching on a Wyeast 3787 Trappist High...

So I'm looking to make an RIS with an OG of around 1.1, and I'm also thinking about doing a no-sparge mash since I have 70qt cooler that I use as a MLT and so I can easily mash 30lb of grain in nearly 13 gallons of water, and no-sparge supposedly yields a very high-quality wort. But obviously...

hi guys, I'm making an IIPA next weekend, and I'm interested to hear how you handle the fermentation of a beer that's gonna have an OG of 1.080, but wants to be drank as fresh as possible because of the massive hop character. I obviously want to get it into bottles as fast as possible to...

hi guys, I got a 70qt coleman extreme cooler for my MLT, but it looks like for my average beer, which will come in around 10-12 lbs of grain, my grain bed will only be about 4-5 inches, which Palmer suggests is on the low end of things. What kinds of trouble might I run into? I'll be...

does anyone know what it was like, what it was roughly made of, etc? I'm a big reader of early 20th century Irish literature, and gob do they guzzle down their porter! I'm thinking that it would just be a lighter version of Guinness Extra, wouldn't it? anyone have any ideas about I might go...

so I got a Brewer's Best Irish stout kit as a gift. But I was thinking I might jazz the kit up a bit by adding some hops and doing a mini-mash (which I've done two great success on two previous batches) and making what I'm calling a cascadian stout. I looked at some cascadian dark recipes and...

hi guys, I'm making a partial mash saison de noel, based on Northern Brewer's limited edition saison de noel extract kit. I decided to change it up a little and add some wheat because I like a nice fluffy head on my beer and because it's my beer and I feel like it. here's the ingredients...

hi, I'm trying to enliven my apartment with some plants, and I thought that I might just plant some hops in a pot and just set them in a sunny spot in my apartment for the fueng-shway. is this in any way a good idea? I know hop plants can get huge. Can I tame them well enough to grow...