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Made 10g last season and want to do more this year... My juice yield per bushel was all over the board and typically lower than it should be (don’t recall my exact numbers). Tell me if this is a bad idea or something that may not affect the results too much: chop /smash apples and put them in...

Can't seem to find a good resource for whiskey grain bills relative to gravity targets, mash temps and use of sugar. Going with a base grain bill of: 63% flaked corn, 27% rye malt, 10% 2-Row. (Basil Hayden) Collection of random items I have seen: 2lbs grain / gallon of water (11gallon...

I pressed 4 gallons of fresh juice, hit it with Camden to kill natural yeast, then pitched proper cider yeast 36 hours later. Did not heat pasteurize the juice. Holding at 68 degrees f for 10 days. It continues to ferment fine. been brewing beer for years, but this is my first cider...

So after 3 weeks, moved imperial stout to a secondary & checked gravity. Gravity was on target, but taste was not progressing as expected. This beer had a super vigorous fermentation in the first week. Blow off tube ejected debris successfully without getting stuck. Popped out the blow off...

So I've done about 6 BIABs. 60min mash (~162-164 deg) with 2 equal batch sparges of water at 170 where I let the water sit 15 min before flushing. In my mash, if temp drops in my kettle, I fire up the turkey fryer, pull my bag up a little off the bottom to avoid overheating the bottom grains...

Was making a Porter that we wanted to infuse with pepper. After scouring others' feedback on how they did it, I came up with a simple solution for my brew. -5 gallons of Porter in the secondary -no pepper added in the mash, boil or primary -4.25 ounces of jalepeno and .25 ounces habanero...

The inspiration on this recipe is a local beer that is a porterish-stout that is a stoutish-porter. Great fall/winter beer. Took their named grains and looked at a bunch of other Porter recipes on HBT to see what kinds of ratios to consider.... 6g batch size, to get 5.5g in the secondary...

So I mad a NewBelgium Amber Ale clone, which I expect to be a biscuity amber ale. After drinking a few store bought ones this past weekend, i wondered if i could add a little twist and change mine... I'm moving to my secondary this weekend for 2 wks after it being in primary for 2 wks. What...