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I measured 1.136 for O.G. Kind of a bummer. Could only find wildflower honey. Trying for a sweet mead. 18 lb. of it! Excited, mostly because I've been brewing ales. For the last two autumns, made cider once a year. So brewing beer, depending on process could take 3 - 6 hours or more. I...

So....Was planning on brewing a BGSA Sunday. Got a lot going on and kind of wishing I was going to do an extract version or something. Oh well. Well, I was 'oh well' until I started questioning my starter last night and today. Now it's beyond 'oh well', but I can't get too worked up. I...

Hey all, So going to try a steam beer. Using the California lager from Wyeast. Went through brew day just fine. Pitched yeast. And being the creepy guy that I am; had to go watch to see if the yeast were "active". Nothing! Ever since I went all-grain, I've been making yeast starters and...

So, as title suggests, I am asking for it. Here goes!! I'm making a robust porter. Was toying with idea of brewing tomorrow after Mass. So, got yeast starter going. Had washed WYeast 1028 (London Ale) and stored in frig. Washed on March 17th! From a brown porter. Starter took off without...

So...Tried a honey smoked pale ale. Loved it. Pretty tasty. Got a new guy interested in brewing. He now wants to work together on stuff and told him about this pale ale I tried. I gave him my idea of together we could do 10 gallons total. He'd do extract or partial extract. I'd do...

I tried doing a recipe search on here. Obviously didn't try too hard!!! About 3 weeks back, went to my LHBS and was shocked! The place is tiny. It's usually me and another person. This day, it was overrun with new people with questions and spending some money!!! I overheard shop owner...

So, I know a guy. Who's curious about learning to brew. Not much money, but has plenty of time. Started talking beer and that he's always been curious about it. We (he) keeps talking about getting together at his place to see where we could brew, etc. Then setting up a time to actually do...

So...Brewed a dunkelweizen and decided to harvest the yeast. I had planned on doing a roggenbier afterwards and then possibly a weizenbock. All the recipes use the same yeast strain. Decided on using the Wyeast 3068 I think. The Weihenstephan strain. A different fellow for sure. So about...

so...Almost 2 weeks ago (Sunday will be 2 weeks), I brewed a dunkelweizen. From JZ's book, "Brewing classic styles". I had my first and only example of a dunkelweizen from Fish Brewing out of Olympia, WA. Liked. Wanted to brew it. Ferment temp. was supposed to be 62 degrees F. Basement was...

Just thinking. My wife and her mom and sisters do the whole Black Friday thing. It's on back of my mind to ask her to pick up ingredients while she's out there (I can call it in!). But then, I don't think it'd go over as well as I like to think it would. Then got me thinking: Do any homebrew...

Hello all, usually thinking about beer. Occasionally mead. And now for first time thinking...."I could buy a gallon of apple cider and make hard cider." Then another thought crossed my mind. "What's apfelwein? And how is it different that cider?" I'm sure there is something in the cider...

I had a 'Golden Ale' from Dick's brewing. It was something like 4.5 % ABV. So not actually a Strong Golden Ale. Like the flavor and got me curious. So now want to brew a Belgian Strong Golden Ale. I haven't brewed anything over about 6% ABV. So all I've done is pitch dry yeast. This will...

So talking with a fellow homebrewer. Gets me worried. I told him I brewed on Sunday. Pitched rehydrated, dry yeast. Fermentis S-33 for a wit. OG was 1.052. In less then 24 hours there was evidence of kreausan (Ugh... It's one of those words I have to look at to spell!) Shocked. Usually...

Brewed a witbier Sunday. First all-grain. It was batch sparging. Ended up getting some plastic buckets from a guy. 1 bucket had a bunch of holes in bottom. NEsted inside another bucket with a spigot. Had to replace the spigot when I got it, but after I sanitized it all. Idea was to hit...

So got a bomber of Irish Death and finally got a framboise lambic. Never tried the lambic before and always curious. Talked about it with the wife. She thought it'd be a good idea. It's one of those things that I try a new brew. Or brew something new. And she indulges me and takes a sip...

Well, I have a turkey fryer burner. I got turkery frying kit a while ago (2 years I think.) It's out of the box, etc. Apparantly I didn't hold onto the booklet or directions. I manage to do it for everything else though. Anyway, you hook the hose up to propane tank. A regulator with a...

I bought some 3/8" x 25' copper tubing yesterday. When I do extract, it's only about 2.5 - 3 gallons into bathtub, changing water out every 10 minutes. Typically 45 minutes to get down enough to pitch. So been looking at wort chillers. All prices I've seen on-line and at LHBS made it seem I...

Lurking around here forever. Decided after 2 weeks of lurking to finally just join. Been brewing off and on for last 13 years. The last 2 years, consistently enough I have ideas for things. I'm curious about if anyone knows any websites or references on where to find a simple recipe for...