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After a 2 year break from brewing I decided to take a stab at a hybrid based on the Avery White Rascal recipe while giving a nod to my wife’s favorites Namaste and Guinness Irish Wheat. I had some Lemongrass stalks I saved from our garden this summer and a pepper mill from her Aunt Barbara, a...

+1 gallon cherry cider = 5.5 gallons

Well it's now Sunday evening, but it was a busy day. Started off running my wife to the pharmacy for a new script to help manage her tachycardia that started right after Christmas. She went shopping for our youngest birthday with my sister-in-law while my oldest daughter and I kept the house...

Thanks for the tips. I'm thinking of picking up some new lager yeast and doing an 8 gallon batch of bock in the 52 degree cold cellar from the start.

Thanks. I only thought about aeration as a possible cause of stalled fermentation and would place it in the cold cellar at 52 but had concerns about the yeast being old and/or fermentation stalled. Thanks for the advice about too many gravity readings. I wanted and got confirmation it's still...

I brewed a small partial mash and extract lager 2.75 gallons this past Saturday and pitched nearly an entire packet of expired S-23 I had added to sanitized cup containing about 3 oz of DME boiled in a cup of water at the start of my mash. Anyway, I figured I may have over pitched a bit but...

+2 gallons Mexican lager = 4.5 gallons

2.5 gallons American lager.

Woohoo!! I have a bubbler going in the basement this morning! With yesterday's New Moon in Capricorn during a Mercury retrograde and the dreary weather outside I thought it made a good day to restart a hobby my beloved wife got me into. I haven't brewed in almost two years, but an afternoon...