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So I was making an Irish Stout for St. Patrick's day a couple of weeks ago and I may have had a little too much drink while I was brewing. Long story short I dropped my digital thermometer into the wort right after I pulled it off the boil. I fished it out with a pair of tongs after about 20...

Planning on doing a peanut butter cup stout in a week or two, but I'm trying to figure out the best way to infuse the peanut butter. I have read a lot of people using PB2 to good results and and in general it sounds like extracts aren't that great. I am thinking about roasting some peanuts...

I'm attempting my first wheat this weekend (time to start making spring beers!) and was wondering if anyone had any advice or wanted to critique my recipe. Should I use rice hulls or do anything else different than normal? I crush my own grains, so do I need to crush the wheat finer or coarser...

A couple days ago I brewed a smoked ale with an OG of 1.060 and fermented it with Wyeast German Ale yeast. I'm having very active fermentation and quite a bit of blow off. I tasted a bit off the side of the fermenter and it is way more bitter than the final beer should be. Is this just from the...

I made a cofee porter from the following recipe and as I took a peek into the primary there is a definite layer of mold on top. I took a sample with a sanitized cup and strained it through a paper towel and it tasted awesome. According to Palmer's book, you can just skim the mold off the top...

Yesterday I made a smoked beer for my summer barbecues. Everything went perfect and the smell was amazingly fantastic. However after I took the hydrometer reading I realized I had somehow broke the hydrometer in the tube and poured it back into the cooled wort. After realizing this I found some...

I made a yeast starter for the Blonde Ale I'm brewing this weekend using White Labs East Coast ale (WLP008). It fermented pretty strong, had a nice thick Krausen which dropped out. Today, it has a strong apple cidery vinegar Smell going on. I had it in my pantry which which I realize now is a...