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Just got back from a whirlwind tour of south eastern Alaska. So I saw about .0000001% of it. Anyway, Alaska has a lot of beer. Most places we went to eat had many beers on tap, which was good. However, once I looked at the list I noticed that there were a bunch of IPAs, several beers with fruit...

I use these pots (4 and 5 gallon) to heat strike and sparge water. My wife has used one to cook an s-ton of vegetable soup. I don't have any recipes that call for soup aromaticized water. I'm wondering if I should be heading to The Hague to file a crime against humanity report. This is a...

I think a brewer gets to name a recipe (attained from an outside source) when they change: a major grain type, a grain amount by a pound or more, a hop type, a hop amount by 2 oz or more (pellets of course - all the purists agree), or a yeast type. Anyway, I like to name my beers with...

I've noticed on several threads people mentioning buying beer. This surprised me because one huge reason I got back into homebrewing was so that I would not ever have to buy beer again. Since I can make it cheaper and at least as good (and many times better) as store bought, I see no need to...

It would be difficult to adjust homebrewing techniques after some catastrophic event (bomb, comet, meteor, a sudden drastic drop in size to the Schwartzchild Radius). Imagine brewing over open flame. No potable water. Materials scarce. Do you have enough brew on hand to last until you can dial...

I recently began using Star-San (3-4 batches ago). The first thing I dislike is the foam. It makes bottling a bit more of a pain in the butt, trying to keep things from running over. Second it's caustic. I burned the tan off my hands (yes, I have a tan - I live in SoCal) a few weeks ago when I...

Is it realistic to hit original gravities as a garage brewer? I have never hit an expected OG. I hit my mash temperatures. The literature is unclear about wash process (since I don't know the proper term). After mash, we're supposed to pull off the water from the bottom of the mash tun and pour...

So this question hasn't been asked since 2014 it seems. What's the best deal you've gotten on brewing equipment and, separately, what's the best thing you've gotten for free? I just got 2 - 6.5 gallon glass carboys for $50. I got a copper wort chiller coil for free pretty recently.

Hey everybody. First post. So I've got this pale ale I brewed on 7/29/21 and bottled on 8/5/21. It's an all grain recipe with 1 oz Centennial at boil, 1 oz Cascade at 20 minutes left and 1 oz Centennial at 5 minutes left (60 minute boil). It tasted nice and fruity at first, but it has developed...