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I started this project a little over 3 years ago, but it took a back seat right after tearing everything apart. A couple months ago I finally started putting the shambles of my basement back together, and am very nearly done so I feel better about sharing with you all. Enjoy! Before, IDK what...

Hi all, I could really use some advice on getting my electric brewing setup started. I started a project to convert my basement into a brewing space probably 3 years ago, but due to various issues hadn't really made a lot of progress. I've finally gotten to a point where I'm able to get the...

I've always had an issue with getting really great hop aroma & flavor out of my beers, but I'm completely at a loss with my latest batch as to the cause. There is almost no discernible hop flavor or aroma in this batch, just a mild bitterness. I used 13oz of hops total for a standard IPA. The...

My parents got me a March 809-PL-HS for Christmas, and I'm trying to figure out where to best use it in my system. Currently I do all-grain with batch sparges. I'm thinking I could start fly-sparging (my efficiency has been in the low-mid 60s lately) or set up a basic HERMS. I'm not really...

My wife decided this year for my birthday to get me a Randall. Previously I have balanced my keg setup using the Draught Quality Manual guidelines, but now I'm not sure what to do when I have this thing connected to keep the lines balanced properly to keep it from foaming. Anyone have any...

A while ago I had a bottle of Jolly Pumpkin's Baudelaire IO saison. It's got rose petals & hips as well as hibiscus in it, giving it a unique color and floral flavor and aroma. I really enjoyed it so I wanted to try my hand at making it, so I emailed the brewer over at Jolly Pumpkin to see if...

One of my pet projects over the last year has been trying to make a pale ale that I can actually enjoy drinking. I think it's nice to have an easy to drink, relatively clean beer, but I'm very often unimpressed by commercial pale ales because the just lack flavor. So many of them are watery...

So I just finished up with a fairly problem-ridden brew day, starting with a fairly sticky mash and finishing up by dropping my stir bar straight into my primary. Normally wouldn't be all that big of a deal, but I just got a second fermenter and have another batch ready to go for next weekend...

After reading Chris White's book on yeast and doing some reading on here, I decided to try out some DIY yeast nutrient. I wanted to keep it pretty basic, and have only used it on 3 batches now. What I got was some tablets of zinc and B-vitamin complex which I crushed up one tablet of each and...

I'm currently in the process of making my first "real" beer with Brett. I did an experiment a while back trying to make a gruit with Brett that so far has been a miserable failure, but I blame that on the wormwood. Anyway, for this batch I'm doing a Saison.. fairly straightforward all-grain...

I just finished up my latest blog post and figured some of you might be interested. I did a parti-gyle brew day with my brew partner on New Year's Eve, and we took a bunch of photos. Because of the size of it, we had to use 2 mash tuns and 2 pots but it turned out well and was easier than we...

This is my first recipe post. I kind of threw this recipe together randomly, as it was originally designed as a starter for a barleywine. At the end I realized that I had made a stout with pretty much all UK ingredients except the yeast. It turned out really well so on a whim I entered it in a...

A couple weeks ago just on a whim I decided to give a competition another shot. So far the only comp I had entered was the AHA National Homebrewers Competition, and didn't do well because of being top far out of style. After looking around online I found out the deadline for the St. Louis Happy...

I'm getting to the point in my brewing where I feel like if I'm going to improve much more, I'm going to need some education, structure, and feedback from an experienced taster who has actually tried my beers. There's only so much you can learn when everyone who tries it just says "yeah, that's...

http://www.inc.com/live I'm hoping someone is capturing it because I won't be able to watch it all right now since I'm at work.

Since kegconnection.com is having that awesome sale, I've decided to make the switch over to kegging. Since it's black Friday tomorrow I wanted to try to find a deal on a good mini fridge for a kegerator. Since it seems like the most common sanyo and frgidaire models are either hard to find or...

http://thatsnerdalicious.com/bacon/nerdalicous-oatmeal-coffee-chocolate-bacon-stout-the-taste-test/ I know what the guy who wrote it said, I wonder how it actually tasted though. Looks like the grease didn't completely kill the head though. Maybe this is one of those cases where everyone's...

I have a stout in the primary right now fermenting with WLP001. Part of the reason for this batch was to build up a good bit of yeast for a barleywine that I'm planning on doing next week. I know in theory I could just pitch onto the cake, but since it was a stout I figured it would be better...

A couple weeks ago a friend and I tried to make our first gruit, and after taking a gravity sample I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with it. The fermenter smells strongly of sulfur, and the sample tasted super bitter, and bile-like. We're not exactly sure what went wrong, but we have...

I've been doing a decent amount of reading on all-grain lately, and there's one thing I'm still not quite clear on. I've seen that you can figure on a certain amount of water getting absorbed by the grains. What I'm not clear on if whether you should use those figures to adjust the amount used...