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A recent trend in Ontario is for craft breweries to do one-off batches with home brewers who have a proven track record of creating beers worthy of larger-scale production. Here are some shots from last Friday, when my brew partner and I did a guest batch with Cassel Brewery, our local...

While looking for something different to try making for the holidays, I stumbled across Rauchbiers. I must admit, I had my doubts, and I wasn't 100% sold on any of the recipes I saw, so I created one that capitalized on a couple things - Maple sugar season in Eastern Ontario, and a friend who...

So I'm at a really nice hotel, with a really nice bar. I looked at their taps and noticed a couple Bell's offerings and ask what's on tap. Here's how the rest of the interaction unfolded.. Barkeep: "Nothing. Taps are being cleaned." "What do you have in bottles?" "Bud, Bud Light...

Planning on making a SMaSH using Vienna Malt and Pacific gem hops. Thinking that the reported woody bitterness and blackberry/currant notes would be nice in a SMaSH. Anyone have any experience with Pacific Gem? Cheers!

Recentlty brewed and Agave Lime Wheat which I will be bottling tomorrow night. Since I have leftover agave nectar, I am thinking of using it as a priming sugar as well. Any thoughts on how much I need for a 5G batch primed to maybe 2.6-2.8 vol? Right now the brew tastes amazing. Some nice...

1.059 OG, fermenting with Safbrew S-33 at 66.5F. Fermentation is super vigorous right now. How fast do you think this will finish?

So for some silly reason I decided to do 2 batches on a Wednesday night. The friend who was helping me showed up an hour late and we didn't get started til almost 630. 1st batch (Agave Lime Wheat) went perfectly, hit all the numbers spot on, and the smell when it went into the fermentor was...

So I got a little lazy after racking a batch of mild and rinsed, but didn't sanitize one of my primaries after racking out of it. I had a bit of mold growing in it ( not too bad, but still hate the thought of it). I did a very vigorous hot water wash last night, and then hit it with Diversol...

So I had been going with Island 17 Brewing since I live on an island known as Island 17. However, I might not live there forever, and I am a scientist, so I had thought about doing something to play one the experimental side of my brewing and came up with "Evil Genius BrewLab." For a small...

The Canadian summer is right around the corner, and some friends have expressed an interest in an agave lime wheat. I looked around the forums and saw that this has been tried, but not sure about people's success. Lots used limeade or lime juice, but I am going to go a slightly different route...

Just racking my mild to secondary to free up some primary space as I don't have time to brew and bottle this weekend and I sampled a bit of the uncarbed beer. It's wonderful! I made this as a bastardized parti-gyle on the back end of a big molasses porter. This is delicate, a little nectary...

SO I was over at my buddy's house for the Stupor Bowl last night, and naturally I brought some homebrew. Most people there are steadfast Corona drinkers and won't touch anything dark or hoppy, so my brews were mine to keep. Partway through the evening, my friend's neighbour came over. I knew...

Bear with me for this story. I find this really interesting. Have you ever had one of those times when you aren't sure if you dreamed something, or if it actually happened, but your recollection was a little hazy due to ethanol consumption? This is one of those times, and what makes me...

I am about to brew a rather big porter in the next week or so, and I'm interested in trying to get 2 beers out of the grains. What I'm planning to do is use the first runnings to make a molasses porter, and then add about 4lb of pale malt to the almost spent grains and use that to make a 3.5ish%...

People have asked for the recipe so here it is: Calculations performed with Brewer's friend online Total Recipe Creator Fermentables Amount Fermentable PPG ��L Bill % 10 lb Canadian 2-Row 37 1.8 78.43% 1 lb...

The good news first: Last night I consumed a pint of what may have arguably been the best IPA that has ever passed over my tastebuds. It poured a glowing orange/amber with a moderate hop haze and a dense white head that lasted until the end of the pint. The aroma was full of resinous pine and...

Maybe I'm just truly embracing my Canadian-ness, but I thought "why not take advantage of this cold weather to make a lager?" Here's the plan. 1. Fill a big ass bucket with water at about 43F and put it out on my back porch. 2. Fit an aquarium heater and pump to heat and circulate the water...

For the last several years, some friends and I have participated in our own little golf league/tour. It started when we were all in university, and we used to play Biologists vs. Historians or Biologists vs. Engineers or Scientists vs. Social Scientists. We started out calling it the Academic...

I've been looking at recipes on here and comparing them to what I just made, and I can't figure out at what point an IPA becomes a DIPA or an IIPA. Is it gravity? Is it grain bill? Is it IBUs? I'm wondering partly because I think what I just bottled sits within this grey area, and if it's a...

I tasted the gravity sample of my galena/cascade IPA last night as I was racking to secondary. It was soooooo good now I can't wait to drink it. Does anyone ever really get used to the anticipation? I feel like a kid on December 17.