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I am clearing out my sizable stock of 12 oz bottles. I don't want anything for them, I just feel it would be a shame to simply recycle them... 12x 12-pack Sierra Nevada style bottles 10x 12-pack tall 12oz bottles of various brands 3x 12-pack 11.2oz Guinness bottles 2x 24-pack tall 12oz...

How do all of you keep notes? How detailed are the notes? Are they electronic or on paper? When I started brewing I got a notebook to keep my beer recipes and notes in, also using beersmith for recipe building (but just that). It worked well for a while; I got a handful of recipes in there. I...

I wanted to share a couple of recipes I just put in the orders for and will be trying out in the next few weeks. I was intrigued by a few reviews of Ahtanum hops, and haven't brewed with it before. I decided to do a couple of different brews with Ahtanum to get an idea of its profile and to see...

I wasn't even brewing. I wasn't even bottling. I had carelessly left it on the counter overnight from a kegging session. I came home this evening, threw the mail on the counter, knocking it and sending it rolling over the edge to the ground. It's my favorite hydrometer (that is, the only one...

After a couple of years of brewing I just had my first serious experience with dough balls in the mash. Luckily I caught it as I was mashing in, thoroughly took care of the buggers stirring vigorously and smashing them against the tun wall. Don't know how the rest has turned out, as I'm just ten...

My wife and I decided to do Christmas four packs for our work colleagues for Christmas this year. They would each include a pair of holiday themed beers and a pair of my house specials. For forty or so coworkers we figured four batches of beer should be good. I bottled my standard amber ale, and...

Brewed up a batch a couple of weeks ago, fancied I was going to make a Black IPA, but may have gone overboard with the darker malts. From the flavor itself, I can't rightly decide whether it is too roasty to call a Black IPA now. Once it's carbonated, I'll have another taste and think about it...

I am brewing a pseudo-roggenbier tomorrow with following grain bill: 4lb Weyermann Rye Malt 4lb 2-row 2lb 6-row 1lb Munich .5lb CaraRed (.5lb rice hulls) I'm trying to figure out if I need a beta-glucan rest at 110F for 20 min to kick off my mash. Thoughts, opinions and advice...

I just read a little about the characteristics of liberty hops today and they intrigued me. I immediately started daydreaming about recipes to make with the hops as the centerpiece, something with a delicate maltiness to accentuate the soft spiciness of the hops. Want to get a recipe together...

I'm going to brew a pale ale this weekend with Amarillo and Nugget hops. Given an all-grain bill with up to 12 lb total grain bill, with 2-row and up to 20% consisting of any combo of Crystal 20/40/60, 2 oz each of Amarillo and Nugget, and WLP001 Cali ale yeast, how would you brew it? I might...

I want to try a rye ale for my next brew, as close to a roggenbier as I'm willing to tread. Only real difference is I'm not quite touching the rye percentage of a traditional roggenbier (>50%). What do you think? Check it out: 4lb Weyermann Rye 2lb munich 2lb 2-row 2lb 6-row 1oz perle @...

Had a question about fermentation temperature, or more accurately, post-fermentation temperature, didn't find any posts in a couple of searches. How important is the temperature once the active fermentation is completed in primary? I have a beer in primary right now that I used frozen soda...

Good idea or not? I want to brew an Amarillo IPA, and thought about trying FWH with the Amarillo. the recipe would look something like this: 10# 2-row 2# Munich 10L .5# Crystal 20L 2oz Amarillo (8.5aa) FWH 1oz Amarillo @15min 1oz Amarillo @2 1oz Amarillo DH at 5 days. WLP001...

I have an overwhelming desire to brew right now. The problem? I'm in the Persian Gulf. But that problem will soon be taken care of (20 more days!). Now that my time is getting close, my head is spinning with brewing thoughts (much like sugar plums). What equipment am I going to get? In what...

I originally wasn't thinking of brewing this weekend. It was going to be too much of a hassle after a couple of very busy weeks and my first sort of relax and veg out weekend. But now that it's Friday, I'm getting an itch to break out the equipment again and brew up a batch. Probably Sunday. And...

A couple of months ago, when I was helping a buddy out with one of his batches, his wife proposed that she and my wife collaborate and that I collaborate with my buddy in a brew off, where each pair of us would put together a recipe, brew it and see who could brew the better beer. The style was...

My friend and I got together to brew an IPA three weeks ago. This brew stayed at his place, and to my dismay, I found out his AC is a little weak, and the ambient temps ended up being in the 75F range during fermentation. Who knows what ferm temps actually were, but I'm guessing they at least...

I will be brewing my first AG batch this weekend. I recently built a simple mash tun from my 48qt ice cube ice chest, with a bazooka screen. Tested its ability to maintain heat, and it dropped 10 in an hour and a half, so I'll have to monitor that somewhat frequently, but other than that...

I discovered pry top plastic bottles during a recent ball game, when I got a Gordon Biersch. Has anyone had any experience bottling with plastic pry top bottles? the lip is pretty much identical to a glass bottle (a little fortified, so the inner diameter is narrower). I'm going to optest with...

I've recently upgraded from kit brewing to developing my own extract recipes. My Koelsch idea will be the second 5 gallon personally developed recipe. I know, technically it won't be a true Koelsch, since I'm thousands of miles from Cologne, but it'll at least be a Koelsch style ale. I've used...