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I think the concept could be cool, but implementation could be tricky. As others have mentioned, I think you need something more. Something easy enough to allow novice brewers to participate, but interesting enough to attract people with some experience. I also think at best this could be...

When batch sparging, it shouldn't matter after you have the grain bed set. All the liquid should be the same gravity. I have an ice cube cooler with a fairly high elbow to the manifold. If I go too slow, the siphon breaks, and I leave over a gallon of wort in the tun. It was a little strange...

I've been reading up on this somewhat lately, while investigating making a rye wine, which by all accounts can have gumminess and viscosity issues. It has seemed to be that a beta-glucanase rest is what you want. There are some conflicting reports on it's effectiveness. Some say that during...

I was hoping to get some opinions on hop additions, specifically for later hop additions. I've been getting more into formulating my own recipes and attempts for clones, and have been seeing a variety of opinions, methods, and usages. Does adding multiple hop varieties at once tend to lend...

I'm a PhD student in Chemistry. I do inorganic and organometallic chemistry. BS in Chem from the the University of Wisconsin, MS and hopefully a PhD from the University of Chicago sometime before I lose all my hair. I've had a few interesting jobs in my past. Worked at a high energy...

I usually use gelatin in the secondary to really clear it up. It overtime seems to crash out chill hazing even a bit. For whatever reason on my last batch of pale ale, the yeast/gelatin stuck to the sides of the bottles instead of sinking. I had to leave them for a few months for it to drop...

I started homebrewing slightly before I turned 21. The homebrew shop never gave me a second look, and even offered samples to me.