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I will cross post this to the beginners forum. Our club in Aitkin MN is doing what we call our Big brew day. The club pays for grain and the local brewery does the mashing. Wort is free, you just need to bring a container to bring it home. This year it is a marzen recipe. What is fun is you...

Free wort for new and experienced homebrewers will be made by the club at the local brewery.

Coming up in one week on June 24th is a beer and spirits fest in McGregor Minnesota. This is the second one for them and my brew club, Glacial Lakes Brewers will be attending it. Of course since we are home brewers we will be pouring some of the best.

In the past I have brewed a beer by just pouring fresh wort into a fermenter with a yeast cake from the previous brew . Brewed up a hefeweizen Thursday last week and now yesterday, friday a dunkelweizen. Used a new pouch of imperial stefon for the hefe, harvested nice creamy yeast from the...

This is what I am thinking for this years hop harvest ale. I made something similar last time using breiss 2-row and using cascade pellet for the 45 minute bittering. No Willamette fresh on hand so 1/2 ounce cascade @60 and 10 ounces @10 so total was 21 ounces of hops. Was tasty. This time...

This is what I am thinking for this years hop harvest ale. I made something similar last time using breiss 2-row and using cascade pellet for the 45 minute bittering. No Willamette fresh on hand so 10 minute nugget was 10 ounces so total was 21 ounces of hops. Was tasty. This time around I am...

My nuggets are 4 yo now. Used miracle grow organic fertilizer beginning, middle and beginning of July. They have never gotten more then 10 feet long until this yr. Might be the fertilizer, having them at a steeper angle from fence extensions or both. Nuggets hit the end of 15' twine and still...

If you have been thinking of brewing or joining a club in north central Minnesota here is a deal. My club, Glacial Lakes Brewers in Aitkin, will be creating a recipe and mashing in at the local brewery Block North Brew pub. We are covering the cost so if you would like to take home 1 gallon...

My brew club here in north central Minnesota is doing a club brew day. The local brewery is going to make up a batch of sweet wort and give it free to those in our club and also those that want to try their hand at home brewing. We may do a simple cream ale recipe so that folks can add...

Well my first real big screw up. Brewed a Hefeweizen, played with temp and under pitched and got a lot of banana flavor. Decided to bottle vs keg so I could hand it out plus it seems to carb nicer and more flavorful vs keg. 2 weeks have gone by and only little pfft when I popped caps on 2...

I brewed up an extract with grain last Thursday because I NEEDED to brew and it was cold outside. I had not taken out my harvested Imperial House yeast to make a starter the night before because it was a last minute brew. So I pitched the 1/2" of probable yeast from the bottom of 3 small jars...

Mid December when I was off work I mixed up a batch of mead and also brewed a buffalo sweat stout clone. After fermentation I placed them in a 60 degree closet beginning of January and when things got crazy busy I forgot about them. When I went to get a box out of the closet yesterday I was...

Ok, I had a pack of Imperial House that was 4 months old. It will be going into an oatmeal stout so was worried it would not have enough cells to properly ferment as this will be first time using liquid yeast. First time making a starter so tried the SNS method. 1 liter starter in a 1 gallon...

Well we had our club organized beer fest this weekend. I noticed that those at our club tables that had wild names on brews and also at craft breweries served more. They did have great beer but I believe that the name is what caught their attention to begin with. I had a cream ale and a pale...

We have a fest coming up and I have had my kegs sitting for a few weeks at 15psi. I am sure I will need to reduce to pour 2-3 ounces in those small glasses. What should I drop it to ? Vent excess pressure and leave it for the week to slowly equalize? What should I use for serving pressure...

My brew club puts this on each year and happily it is getting bigger every year. One of the things I like is that we have a few brew clubs that also setup and serve beer so people can see that they too can brew beer. This year we even have two small distilleries that will be attending and...

I need to brew up a Pale Ale for a beerfest coming up on 9-11-21 to serve in the brew club tent. I cannot brew it until next Monday August 2nd. I have liquid yeast Imperial House and Imperial Bartleby (hornindal strain) plus a number of dry yeasts like nottingham and s-04, US-05 and others...

Received my 10.5 foundry and brewed first beer couple nights ago. My take on Cream of 4 crops cream ale. No rice hulls added, used the new to me mill with whatever previous owner had gap. Worked well, I think clearest wort I have ever made. Recirculation is a wonderful thing. 91% conversion...

Ok, I have been using a NB Hullwrecker for a few years, easy to set up, and using credit card width gap. Yesterday someone I know gave me 4 corny kegs, co2 tank w/regulator and what I expected to be a regular 2 roller mill for free. When I unloaded it from the truck and saw how big it was I...

I tried to brew a cranberry orange wit. Not enough fruit and realized at bottling that I forgot the spices. Have a case bottled and a 2.5 gal keg. It came in around 1.006 with an abv of 7% as my efficiency and fermentation was better then expected. It is drinkable but lacking. What can I do to...