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Got hooked on the dirty lemonade/thunderbolt at my local coffee shop,which is lemonade with a couple shots of Espresso. so I'm going to try it as a beer. Making a basic Berliner using fast souring pitch. During the second boil I'm unsure if I'm going to use lemon drop hop or traditional...

I'm looking to host a free workshop at my homebrew club in Chicago. It will be geared towards new brewers and people who never brewed before that are looking to see the step by step process of All-Grain brewing. January is my 8 year brewing anniversary and to celebrate I want to give back to the...

Have seen a couple old post about making a NA beer using the stovetop method and wanted to try this experiment going one step further. I will use my still to remove and measure the exact amount of alcohol and volume I'll be removing from the beer. I've considered doing an APA but have read...

I have a 35 gallon uncharred unused I believe French oak barrel a winemaking friend gave me. I was thinking of taking the dregs of any Cantillion, 3F,Etc bottles in hopes to make an environment for spontaneous fermentation but with Belgium's good bugs. Would this work? Should I sanitize the...

Picked this up used. Needed some work but its up and running! Will be a future piece for my homebar build. Keglines will come out the side go in a wall and tappers will come out the wall

Anyone in the Chicago area next weekend my homebrew club is hosting their quarterly party. Non-recurring trial membership grants you access to the party where we'll have 20+ homebrews on tap and 3 guest taps from local breweries and homebrew shops. Our featured beers will highlight fruits that...

Anyone looking for a great Saturday night of homebrew and chili Chaos BrewClub's stout and chili night is tomorrow. Very open welcoming party lots of homebrewers and craftbeer lovers talking shop. This was my first event I ever went to at Chaos and they were very welcoming.

I haven't had much experience with electric besides my still has a 5500w element with a SCR controller. But I'd like to know if I took an element and put it in a small vessel and circulated worth from my igloo mash tun into the vessel with the element controller by a PID and back into the mash...

Trying to level up my brewing and one thing I've always been sloppy with was never hitting 168+ to mashout with. Usually I heat up the water too late and end up mashing out and sparging with water 150-160 range. So I'm wondering what negative effects could that of been having on my beer?

doing my first altbeir for a competition (bottles due feb 5th) trying to figure out a fermentation schedule for it. thinking 1 week 60-65 and than lager it for 3 weeks at 50. Keg it/carb it and bottle off the keg. never used this yeast before so not to sure about the ferm schedule

Looking to make a big RIS and i don't believe our mash tuns will hold the amount of grain. So was thinking of splitting the grain bill evenly and run it through two mashtuns collect in one kettle. Any downfalls in doing this?

Need some tips from oak barrel/sprial/cub agers. My brother and I made a bourbon. We aged our 125 proof corn whiskey for 5 weeks on a charred spiral. Now I'm looking to make a stout to age on the sprial and have a true family made bourbon aged beer. Question is what would be a good size batch...

So for a while now I been wanting to really familiarize myself with more malts without having to crank out multiple batches a week. So I was thinking of grabbing like 2oz of each malt from my LHBS. grind up each malt in a mortar bowl or chopper. put the grain in a reuseable teabag and mash it in...

So just wondering what are some of the biggest reasons stopping some of the most experienced people on here from setting up their own shop? A lot of the recipes on here blow away even some of the best craft beers on the market. So is it Risk?, no desire to go to the next level? or make a job...

So I've enter a slightly modified clone beer once before (scored 29) but this was my first original recipe entered. Didn't place but was happy with the results.

Summer I have the outside burner and its great.winter sends me back indoors tho and my stove can't get a good boil going. So was wondering what are the bare essentials needed to go electric? -5 gallon batches -all grain -igloo mash tun

Got a giftcard to my lhbs and trying to think what my new toy should be $75 giftcard. I already have 4 kegs,2 regulators, perlick faucets, kezzer with digital controller,stir plate. Thinking my next toy should be a refractometer. Any toys I'm over looking?

Switching out my single tower for a homemade twin tower. Almost done,just need to paint the top piece with chalk board paint and buy the connections for the second faucet. Only cost be around $30 to make.

so i brewed my first all grain and i know i had some issues..but which caused the beer to taste like grains? my biggest mistake the strike water was 162 aiming for 152. i mashed in (4 gallons) and the temperature dropped to 147. i started scooping some of my 175 degree sparge water in..not...

any artist or photoshop wizards willing to help? I have a logo but need to work the brewery name into it and dress it up a little, attached is the logo I'd like to use. The brewery is "Beaks Brewery" it is named after my late brother that was a big greatful dead fan...hence the tiedye peace...