So, I have this book, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch, and it mentions that before the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516 (aka the Reinheitsgebot) which mandated that beer use hops as a bittering agent, people would just use any old...
I’m new to homebrewing and made a beer with ingredients I had left over from my previous brews. Any ideas as to what beer style this fits into?
(4 lbs 12 oz Rahr 6 row),
(2 lbs 13 oz pale malt, marris otter),
(1 lbs Cara-pils/dextrine),
(12.8 oz victory malt),
(10.4 oz Munich malt),
(9.6 oz...
We've all seen them at our local homebrew store; shelves filled with kits, tempting us, "Use me, I'm ready to brew, no thinking required." I heard a fellow homebrewer describe them as Betty Crocker brewing; just mix, boil, and enjoy. While there certainly are a lot of good things to say about...