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The website is blank for me. Michigan Brewers Guild Is it happening this summer? I remember that I bought my tickets around this time last year.

Yikes. My wife resigned from her job this morning. She never liked it, but was really good at it, so her manager kept piling more and more work on her, and eventually more and more difficult work. This morning she had decided it was enough and resigned. (It was a much longer process than this...

I'm making one of those big 4 gallon wine kits right now. OG was 1.082, and instructions said to rack to a carboy at or below 1.010, leaving most of the trub behind, to let it finish to 0.996. I racked when I was supposed to, but I'm worried I got too much of the trub, as almost all of it was...

I just got a Selection International Winexpert kit, and the instructions say to clean and sanitize equipment with specific chemicals (it just says a winemaking detergent for cleaning, but to sanatize with metabisulphate). If I clean with Oxiclean and sanitize with Starsan, will this be okay, or...

So whenever I drink Apfelwein I always wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I over did it, regardless of how much I drank. When I normally get trashed, with no Apfelwein in sight, I usually just wake up the next day a little more tired than normal. Any time I drink AW, I wake up in...

Forgive me if there is a thread similar to this. I've searched high and low and couldn't really find the information I'm looking for. What are options for compact refrigerators that can be converted to kegerators? Obviously the Sanyo 4912. I've heard that the Oster 4.9 works And the...

Sick and effing tired of people ordering beer that needs fruit in order to be drinkable. This is close to the ******* BMC obsession that pisses me off so much. Wait, no, its even worse. Also, don't brew beer with fruit. If you want a ****ing fruity drink, drink a cosmopolitan or some ****. Blue...

So while doing my taxes it turns out that instead of having to pay a little more, I'm actually going to get a fairly sizeable refund:ban:. My wife said it's cool to spend a portion of it on beer stuff. I don't really want to spend more than 125 or 150, so help me decide what to buy. 7 cases of...

So my sixth all grain, and I think I'm finally getting my system working for me. You can read about my last brew session, less than a smashing success, here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/5th-all-grain-process-help-99295/ I was shooting for 5 gallons but got closer to 6, probably 5.9, since...

Is it worth it to stop at the Bell's shop and restaurant? I know the berewery is not open to the public, but I'm curious to see if it is worth a stop since it is on my way from Chicago back home to detroit tomorrow. Any other decent breweries to stop at?

If you were giving a six pack of winter warmers to your brother-in-law for his 21st birthday, what would you name it?

In recognition of the other "How many gallons of 'insert recipe probably created by EdWort here' have been made, I say we keep a tally of how much we brew period. Beer, mead, wine, apfelwein, whatever, lets see how much we're all brewing. The only rule... lets start the countdown now, and not...

I've done 4 all grain batches (Stout, winter warmer, pale ale, and an Irish Red). They have all produced outstanding beer, but my efficiency was terrible (50-60%) and I always end up with 4-4.5 gallons. I'm doing my 5th all grain tomorrow, and I would like some help looking over my process to to...

My upstairs neighbors have been fighting recently. Unbelievably loud shouting matches where you can hear exactly what they are saying and you can hear them hitting things and breaking things (never got the impression that they are violent towards each other, though). This can go on on and off...

Barack O'bama's Irish Red, here. My wife came up with the name, I thought it was clever. (Lets try to keep the political flame out of this one, just brew talk, please).

I want to bottle carb Apfelwein, but I want it more carbonated than a typical beer (5oz). I was thinking of adding 7oz, but I wanted to hear if anyone had experience doing something like this, or if it is generally known how much priming sugar is too much and can lead to bottle bombs. Yes, I...

Sort of. I ordered on Monday for an IPA I was going to brew this weekend, and the ingredients wont come in time!!! I only ordered because my LHBS didn't have all of the ingredients I needed. I could just go to the LHBS, pick up ingredients for a different beer, and brew this weekend anyway...

So I've been on a black and tan kick lately. I had a fridge full of Bass but no Guinness, so I tried making one with a homebrewed Stout (AG kit from Northern Brewer, Dry Irish Stout). Well, the instead of a black and tan, this stout just mixed with the bass. I was frustrated and dumped it and...

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And post the recipe. Mine was a real simple extract pale ale. The first beer I created on my own. I've since moved on to AG, but this is still my favorite so far. 7 lbs lme .5 lbs crystal 10L 1 oz cascade (60) .5 oz cascade (30) .75 cascade (15) .75 cascade (5) safale us05 Stick...