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I plan on brewing a sweet stout later this week. It will pretty much be the Deception Cream Stout recipe found inthe recipe database. I have everything I need for it except for the yeast. I have a citra pale ale that I plan on bottling over ther next few days. Its sitting on a cake of WLP001...

Years ago, when I first started getting into craft beers, I wanted to try all kinds of different things. I found that there was a lot of styles that were popular that I just didn't care for. Like a lot of people, I slowly became that guy that liked anything that had an ass load of hops in it...

I'm looking for suggestions for upgrading my brew kettle. For years, I brewed with extract. I would boil about 3 gallons and top up with water. Then I moved to doing BIAB with some smaller batches. I've been using a 4 gallon pot. I just built a cooler mash tun and I'm looking to get a bigger...

Thank you to those of you that contributed to my thread "First BIAB=Failure. " Later today, I am going to apply some of the suggestions I received in that thread and see if I can improve on my terrible, low 50's efficiency. I decided to keep it simple and go with a Vienna/Northerm Brewer...

So this past weekend I attempted my first BIAB. It was a 2 gallon hefe(or similar to it) using 2 lbs of Pilsner and 2lbs of wheat. I mashed at 153 for an hour, raised the temp to 170 for 10 minutes, sparged and boiled for an hour. I dunk sparged my grains and squeezed the heck out of them...

I recently started brewing again after an unfortunate hiatus. The last few brews Ive made used dry yeast. It's been a while since I made a starter. Yesterday I made a starter for a hefe I planned on doing today. Not being smart enough to go back and familiarize myself, here's what I did. I...

Being the only beer drinker in the house, I have decided to try my hand at some smaller batches. I have varied tastes, so 5 gallon brews tie up too many bottles, limiting the number of different beers I can keep on hand. I'm thinking of brewing batches anywhere between 1-2.5 gallons depending on...