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I used to keey a dropper bottle of hop additive. Now, I need to find a source for this. It is a dropped bottle of concentrated hop ol that can be added to an already brwe to increase the hop flavor. Does anyone have a source?

Black Garlic isn't really fermented garlic. The process involves a slow sugar break down over time. Black garlic is heavily caramelized garlic. I wash and sterilize the container of my rice cooker, then put heads of garlic upright in the bottom, spray the garlic heads lightly with water, close...

Apple, alder, cherry are the preferred woods for smoking salmon, and other fish. Some like to use a bit of mesquite, but only in very small amounts and only at the end of smoking.

A combination of Irish moss and isinglass used at different times tends to clear the yeast better, but since there will be less yeast at bottling, carbonation will take longer. I use a primary, secondary, then tertiary process and some of my friends then filter the beer and use a pressurizing...

I'm sure that Revvy's really hot, but does that mean that he (or she) needs to demean the opinion of anyone other than his or her self with no real understanding of what is being discussed? If you are about to pitch a batch, using an iodine based sterilizer and immediately pitching the brew is...

BTF Iodine based sanitizer for everything- Very fast (60 seconds) and thorough -no residual taste- even though you can do a "no rinse" I always do a quick rinse. Chlorine takes forever to rinse.