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Whats up brewers. There are a ton of hop varieties piling up on the HBS shelves so I wanted to start a discussion about whats out there, what people like, what people don't like, what kind of combinations seem to work or don't work, and what kind of brews they fit really well in. I am...

Hey guys…I wanted to take a little poll and see what people do to keep warm for winter brewing. I brew out in my garage and in MI, it often gets cold enough to freeze my pints of beer! I hardly brewed last winter because it was insanely cold so that made me incredibly sad :( I am thinking…I...

Hey everyone. I ran across this really great page from MSU about growing hops. It is targeted for the Great Lakes States but has tons of great info on organic nutrients , pest management, diseases ect ect.... Hops.msu.edu Enjoy!! Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So it is that time of year where everyone starts making their darker fall / winter brews so I think we should start a yeast awareness club to help people get off their 1056 / 001 addiction. I taste a lot of ambers, porters, stouts...ect...ect....made with the american ale / cal ale yeasts and...

I made a starter last night using White Labs Cal ale yeast. When I cracked the vial open, it fizzed quite a bit (which isn't too uncommon for white labs vials) but it had a hint of an odor that reminded me of a sour beer. I went ahead with the starter to see what it would smell like when it...

Has anyone ever gave this an attempt as a natural mite control? Both forum search and google search returns nothing. Thripex Plus is apparently a pouch of predatory mites that eat spider mites. http://www.koppert.com/pests/thrips/products-against-thrips/detail/thripex-plus-1/ I am a little...

I kegged a raspberry wheat with real raspberries so a few bits made it into the keg. Once it was ready, I go to fill up a pint and it just dribbles out of the tap. I thought a raspberry bit made its way up and clogged something so I took everything apart and cleaned it. Put it back...

There is a lot of info on making them but not about taking them out and stepping up the yeast to pitchable quantities. Does anyone have a solid method for pitching from glycerin stocks?

So I was trimming my hops this morn and noticed my fingers smelled like tasty hops. What the!? I looked at some of the lower level leaves that were new and I noticed a little yellow dotting. I checked them out under the scope and it looks like the leaves are excreting lupulin of some sort...

Alright, now that my third brew in a row has a band aid flavor, I think that I know where it is coming from but I need some help. This current brew was a simple AG pale ale recipe. The mash pH was 5.74. It was out of that 5.2-5.6 range but is that enough to cause astringency? It didn't...

I came across this article that looks at the theory of cohumulone being the "harsh" bittering component in hops. I thought it was a good quick read so hopefully others enjoy it! http://barthhaaschina.com/uploadfile/2011/04/2011042116024874.pdf

Hello. I am doing my first mead (making it a melomel) and have a handy dandy pH meter to monitor the fermentation. I have a general question regarding pH. I noticed with mine any way that the pH dropped quite a bit in the primary and the fermentation seems to slow down. It dropped from 4.5...

I started a pale ale last week and the temps in my basement dipped way down and it was a 57F for the start of the fermentation (3 days). There was air lock activity but it never really took off. I moved it over to the furnace room on day 4 and it went up to 65F and went crazy. So...any...