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The sulfur smell will go away after lagering. Rack it to secondary (or into a keg) and put it at fridge temperatures (35-40 F) for about three weeks. You'll end up with some ester flavors because you used lager yeast at ale temperatures. Some brewers do this deliberately: see Anchor Steam for...

Putting the beer in the fridge will slow the fermentation to a crawl but generally won't stop it completely, and the yeast will start up again if you take it out of the fridge. You can pasteurize the bottles to stop the buildup altogether; I've never done this myself but the procedure seems...

There's a shortage on Centennial hops everywhere this year. A 70/30 mix of Cascade and Columbus is supposed to be very similar.

I do believe he's referring to yeast pitching.

I really doubt that you'll be able to tell the difference between an expensive Laphroiag and your normal priced bottle of JW Black Label when you're adding ten ounces to a five-gallon batch.

My wife doesn't like hops, and I do, so it's hard to find a beer we both like. We made a cider together once, back-sweetened with pomegranate concentrate, and that was a big hit. A lot less work than beer-making, too!

Miller High Life uses a hop extract that contains no isohumulones, so UV light doesn't cause them to turn to thiols, hence no skunk aroma.

WLP300 yeast fermented near 70ºF gave me a very banana-flavored beer without me needing to add any bananas at all. I just wish I knew it was going to do that ahead of time.

I'm late to this one, but anyway: Weld World in Curtis Bay gives me better prices than Robert's. They do refills, not exchanges, but I prefer it that way. If you go in when they aren't busy they'll just refill while you wait, takes five or ten minutes.

Commercial beer line is usually 3/16" ID tubing but for cornelius kegs you usually want 1/4". Get the thick-walled tubing if you can find it.

When I was in college there were people fermenting apple juice and sugar with bread yeast in a used water cooler carboy. It was as gross as it sounds. Sanitization procedures were not what you'd call rigorous, either. In the end they discovered that it was easier to just buy cheap beer. Also...

I would definitely be interested in this if the price was reasonable. There are trails that allow cans but not glass bottles, and even brown bottles will skunk after enough exposure, but an opaque can never will.

Just used this method to brew Centennial Blonde. Got about 68% efficiency. I'm very pleased with this method. I kept missing my temps on the high side, though -- strike water at 165 put my mash at 160 when I wanted 150, so I used ice cubes to cool the mash down.

Depends, what kind of beer were you making? I scorched my first beer -- but it was a porter. I think it helped; the next time I make a porter I'm going to deliberately scorch some wort.

Hey, I'm in Baltimore and was planning on brewing that today, too! (hi5) Maryland Homebrew's website claims they have Centennial pellets in stock. I guess I'll find out if that's true later today, but the site is usually accurate. They're just over in Columbia, it's not a long drive. Unless...

I did my first batch using bleach as the sanitizer. Rinsed with tap water. Topped off the partial boil with water straight from the tap, too. Everything worked. Rinsing thoroughly is annoying and time-consuming, and I use StarSan now. But if all you have on hand is bleach, and your tap water is...

Finally got my batch of this on tap. It came out pretty good; the vanilla is slightly stronger than I was looking for but not too far off. I used 1.5 oz of Trader Joe's vanilla extract in the primary and 3.5 oz when kegging. I used corn sugar instead of DME for the keg conditioning. Overall I'm...

Okay, I'm giving this one a shot. I was looking for a good recipe for the nice (or "unreasonably warm", depending on your opinion) weather I seem to be getting this spring/summer and this looks quite good. Should I bother adding vanilla pre-fermentation, or should I just add it all when I rack...

I built a kegerator out of a mini-fridge I found on Craigslist. Everything went basically fine. I have a beer tower on my bar and a length of PVC pipe connecting the top of the fridge to the bottom of the bar and everything. Anyway, when I was building it I decided that a single tap kegerator...