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    What is the best deal on malt in 2022?

    It's been almost a year since I bought malt. Lucky for me, I stocked up before the situation in Europe made the price go up, but I've finally run myself out of base malt. Back then, the best deal I could find was buying by the pound from MoreBeer in 10 pound increments. I was getting Viking...
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    Dry lager yeast: should I make a starter?

    I finally have a fridge set up for temperature controlled fermentation, so I'm about to try my first lager. I usually don't do yeast starters, but I've seen a lot of things saying that they are a necessity for lagers. I've also seen things saying that starters are unnecessary or not...
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    Flaked corn as a specialty grain (unmashed)

    Years ago when I made my first extract brew, it was a Brewer's Best cream ale kit. The brew shop guy threw in an extra ingredient that wasn't in the kit, some flaked corn and a grain bag. He said it would help the flavor, and told me to steep it, like any specialty grain for extract brewing...
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    Best methods for bottling? Do you still use bottling buckets?

    When I recently started brewing again after eight years off, I discovered that a lot of things have changed in the home brewing world. For one, racking to a secondary fermenter is apparently something that most people don't do anymore. When I started brewing in 2012, it was still considered...
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    Figuring out the procedure for my first all-grain brew. (BIAB)

    I'm trying to figure out the game plan for my first all-grain brew. It will be the first beer I've made since doing extract kits in 2013. I'm just waiting for some ingredients and paraphernalia to come in the mail. This is the recipe and procedure, as I've pieced it together so far. Let me...
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    Putting together my first kegging setup on a budget.

    I'm just getting back into beer brewing after several years, and also preparing to make the move into all-grain and accumulating the stuff I need (which is surprisingly little, since I plan to start with BIAB). I've always wanted a keg setup eventually, but figured it was a long ways down the...
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    new member

    Hi everybody, I'm just getting back into brewing again after taking almost 10 years off. I brewed several extract kits years ago, thought about getting into all grain but never made the jump. Then moved, and got busy with other projects, and never got the brewing stuff set back up again. But...
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