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So, I ordered a bunch of supplies off Midwest, and after a few issues, my 11# of Maris Otter and 5# Halcyon came uncrushed. I don't have access to a mill to crush these, and from what I read, this is far too much for the rolling pin method. I do have access to a blender and food processor, which...

So, I'm a pretty accomplished homebrewer, but have some friends that don't drink. Not wanting to leave them out, I thought it'd be a cool idea to try and make some soda, but I have a few questions.. 1) I'm going to naturally carbonate the soda. The big fear is bottle bombs if I'm using glass...

So, I want to brew a steam beer. I have a good recipe going, I think, I just can't decide on the yeast. The White Labs San Francisco Lager seems to be the standard steam strain, but I was wondering what I'd end up with if I used something like the White Labs German Bock strain (WLP833)? Optimal...

So, I went to bottle my chocolate stout today. I started with 5.5 gallons in the fermenter with the hopes of bottling 5, and ended up with 4! It seems like 1.5 gallons is waaay too much to lose. I didn't use a hop bag, and just dumped the post-boil wort into the fermenter, so that could have...

Ingredients 8 lbs 8.0 oz Pale Malt, Maris Otter (3.0 SRM) Grain 75.6 % 1 lbs Biscuit Malt (23.0 SRM) Grain 8.9 % 1 lbs Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM) Grain 8.9 % 8.0 oz Munich Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 4.4 % 4.0 oz Special B Malt (180.0 SRM) Grain 2.2 % 1.00 oz Sterling [7.50 %] - Boil...

In the interest of full disclosure, this is for a beer, not a wine. However, most of my searching regarding dandelions turn up results for dandelion wine, so I figured some winemakers might have more experience with acquiring them. Sooo... Does anyone know of a place to get dandelion flowers...