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This is a recipe that I have been brewing with variations for about two years now, and I always run dry before I get around to brew the next batch. I believe that a good IPA can be done with only base malts and just a few hop types. Going overboard with hop varieties and crystal malts just...

I just bought 5kg of Zeus hops. Don't look at me like that, it was on sale! I'm going to brew some over the top hop bursted, dry hopped SMASH IIPAs with that, obviously. That'll get me through the first one or two kilos. But how about the rest? Are there any hopping techniques that are...

If anyone's in southern Germany in mid September, there's an opportunity to meet German home brewers and sample their beers: http://www.camba-bavaria.de/news/artikel/camba-bierfestival-mit-hobbybrauerwettbewerb-2016/

I'll be visiting the USA (California) for a couple of days soon, and am wondering if there are any bottle conditioned beers with otherwise unobtainable yeast strains. I have the sterile equipment to transport it back home, I have done that before. I'm not much into Belgians, Saisons, Brett or...

I'd love some input on developing a pre-prohibition style beer, somewhere around a CAP or what a turn of the century steam beer may have been. I'm not striving for historical accuracy, but hoping for a tasty, unusual but approachable beer. After some reading, I've come to a malt bill of 75%...

I need to make room in the freezer and thought I should try something with cherries. What goes well with cherries that is not a sour? Will adding cherries in the secondary to a pale ale or a brown ale do any good? Does anyone have a good cherry based recipe?

I have an off-flavor that I'm not sure if I'm identifying it correctly: it doesn't taste like green apple as in Granny Smith from the supermarket, it tastes like apples that aren't ripe yet - a kind of slightly sour, tart taste, maybe a bit similar to red currants or dry white wines. It...

I'm almost addicted to drinking gravity samples. Right now I have a sample in my glass that's at 8°P (down from 20°P), still full of sugar, hops trub and active yeast. Far from a finished beer, it has a mixture of alcohol taste, sweetness and fresh hops aroma. Am I the only one for actually...

I bottled my latest beer yesterday and decided to wash some of the yeast cake. I followed the instructions (sanitized jar, boiled and cooled water) and put the jar in a cool place (40s) overnight for things to settle. This morning I opened it and was surprised to find that it was not just under...

Quick summary: i thought I had a full mash kit, it turned out to be a mash-extract kit, so I used less water. Long version: I decided to move from kit-n-kilo to BIAB. Got a kit (IPA), split it in half so that I could use existing kitchen pots instead of having to invest in equipment. I...

I'm flying overseas soon and want to bring some homebrew for a friend. I'd like to minimize weight and risk of an explosion. I was wondering if I could fill some plastic bottles without sugar, take them on the flight, then add priming sugar and carbonate when I get there?

Hello, I'm from southern Germany, and while I am blessed with a steady supply of quality lagers and pilseners (nearest brew pub is half a mile from my house), they just don't make hop head beers here. So that is the one reason why I want to home brew, I want to drink (I)IPA and making my own...