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I have a 5 gallon rum barrel that I have already aged 2 beers in. Most of the spirit character is gone. Is it possible to add a bottle of another spirit, swish it around, and let it sit for a while, and then reuse? If so, should I just add boiled water beforehand to leach any remaining rum...

A few friends and I have just acquired a 30 gallon apple brandy barrel with the intent of filling it with some sort of sour base beer. We bought the barrel from John at http://www.barrelbroker.com/ The barrel smells fantastic! Our collective experience with brewing sour beer is limited to...

How does this recipe look? 11 lb 2 Row 6 oz Honey malt 8 oz Crystal 40 6 oz acid malt Hops Name Alpha Amount Use Time Form IBU Amarillo 9.5% 1.000 oz Boil 60.000 min Pellet 29.9 Amarillo 9.5% 1.000 oz Boil 5.000 min Pellet 6.0 Amarillo 9.5% 1.000 oz Boil 0.000 s Pellet 0.0 Simcoe...

Hello, I recently bought a 5 gallon used rum barrel from Farmhouse Brewing Supply. I am trying to decide on what to fill it with first. I am tossing around a few ideas. 1. Pumpkin Ale-way out of season but sounds like it would be a great pairing for the rum flavors 2. EdWorts Robust...

Hello, My wife and I are going to Utah in a few weeks. Can you buy wine and full strength beer readily in stores? Sorry of this has been discussed, but a search on the iPad app did not reveal anything obvious in the first few pages. Thanks.

I have started a few sour beers over the last few months. I thought I was careful keeping everything used for sours separate but I must have slipped somewhere. I recently brewed a coffee stout. When I transferred it to secondary it seemed "normal" enough. I tossed some o Sherry soaked oak...

Hello, My wife surpised me with a medium char American oak barrel for my birthday. Unfortunately, she accidentally ordered a 1 liter barrel (great for whiskey around our dog's neck but not so much for aging beer). Thankfully, she has asked me to pick another one out. She meant to get a 3...

Hello. I brewed EdWort's Bee Cave Hefeweizen an couple of months ago (delicious) and on a whim racked a gallon or so onto some fozen strawberries. I went to keg it recently and saw this. I had a small taste and it tasted sourish. I have never seen this before. Is this the growth of...

I have been brewing on and off since 1995. Moved to Park Ridge a while back and was wondering if there is an active home brew group. Thanks.

Anyone out there have a recipe for Three Floyds Black Sun? Would love to make this.

Headed to Cheyenne for work this week. Anyhwere recommended? Thanks in advance.

Headed to Billings for work for a couple of nights. Anywhere recommended for tasting some good beers?

Hello, Been brewing for a bit now but never had this happen. Brewed a porter (extract partial mash) and the OG was supposed to be 1.054 but turned out 1.034. I'm pretty sure its because our bucket was not graduated and we added water up to the "stain line" which we thought was 5 gallons...

I have a light American Ale kit I need to use and thought I might as well experiment with it. I want to make a very cherry tasting ale. I am aiming for some sweetness and a little tartness. If I use fresh cherries, do they need to ne pitted? If so, is there a trick do doing it? The kit...

Hello, Was gonna do a cherry ale and saw that my grocery store had the Oregon fruit purees but they have "heavy syrup" (just cherries, sugar, and water in the ingredients). Anyone see a problem adding some of those to the primary or secondary? The cans are small but I don't recall how many...

Hello, I've serached but haven't found one yet. Looking for a partial mash or extract clone of Brooklyn's East India IPA. Any out there have a recipe or ideas? If you do, I'd be veyr thankful if you'd share. Thanks

Does anyone know where I can buy smaller carboys (1 - 3 gallons) besides a homebrew store? Looking to make a couple of batches of wine for the first time (unless apple cider fermented with champagne yeast counts as wine) Thanks a lot

Hello. I am doing a partial extract Kolsch and and have already done a primary at a constant 67 F for 2 weeks. Now SWMBO thinks its time to turn the heat on in our apt. so its gonna get up to 75 at times (forced air). I am transferring to a secondary tonight and was debating whether or not I...

Going to Kansas City this week for work and would like to hit a brewpub of possible. Anyone have any recommendations? Thanks in advance.:mug:

Hello I made a ginger beer that fermented with vigorous airlock activity for three days. Unfortunately, I did not take a reading in the beginning. Tonight (3 weeks later) it reads at 2%. This seems way low. The recipe is below: I made a batch this past spring. I didn't use a kit/tin...