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I've been trying to make a very lemon heavy ginger ale for a couple of weeks and am getting close to the flavor I like. The problem I'm having is that the solution keeps turning pink instead of bright yellow. I'm using a lemon:ginger ratio of slightly more than 2:1. I peel the ginger and...

Had a strange thing happen recently and I'm wondering if I'm thinking straight. I had 3-1 gallon batches of beer fermenting next to each other and each had a blowoff tube that went into a single jug of star san. I went out of town while these were fermenting and when I came home the star san...

I recently set out to brew a pale stout with traditional stout ingredients. I failed a couple of times in accomplishing the "pale" portion of the stout but finally seem to have made progress using nitrogen infusion and iced gelatin filtration (sounds so nerdy). I used JZ's Dry Stout recipe...

I'm brewing a Berliner Weiss and was planning on conducting a sour mash with a handful of base grains but I was thinking that with my equipment it would be much easier to just run off the mash and sour the wort with the extra grain. Does souring the mash produce a different flavor than...

I'm approaching the 10 yr anniversary with my wife towards the end of August and I'm looking to brew something that will taste good on our anniversary and hopefully taste even better each anniversary in the future. What styles of beer can I make in 6 weeks that will taste good now and also...

I'm going on a trip through Utah (National Parks), Arizona (Page and Grand Canyon) and Nevada (Vegas) and I'd like to buy some bottles of beer that I can't get in Los Angeles. One of my favorite breweries is Odell's and I saw that they distribute in AZ so it got me thinking, what else should...

I brewed a Milk Stout and it's delicious and it has a definite chocolate covered raisin taste. I'm wondering where the raisin flavor is coming from so I can use that combo later. I've read that you can get it from Crystal 120 or Special B but I didn't have any in here. My recipe contained...

Taking up a trip to Wine Country in a couple weeks and would like to stop by one of these breweries for lunch. Any know which one (if any) is more receptive to little kids (3 and 2). Also if there's any other beer centric places worth visiting on the drive from Sonoma to Florence, OR...

I'm hoping to brew a porter in the next couple of days but I checked with Mr. Malty and it says that I need 3 vials of yeast to make a 1.36 L starter. The problem is that I only have one vial and can't get any more yeast vials. I'm new to the starter thing so I'm wondering if I can step up...

I was going to brew two beers for the 4th but I had some not so fun family stuff. Now it's the 17th and I'm stuck with no brew for our annual 4th of July BBQ. Any ideas on what I can brew that would be tasty for the 4th and also be ready by then if I brew this weekend? The main problem is...

I'm heading to Bethesda, MD in July (great weather right?). Any good breweries or Bars around town? I'll be staying near the metro stop around East West Highway. I'm from CA so a good selection of East Coast brews would be nice to see.

I'm working on scaling some recipes down and I'm ending up with results that have small amounts of grain like .07 lbs of Caramunich in a Saison, or .04 lbs of Chocolate malt in a batch. Are these worth including? I noticed in beersmith that the .04 lbs of Chocolate affects the color by a...

My dad got a free chest freezer and now I'm looking a temp control options but have a question. With the two stage Ranco or Love is it possible to have to beers in the fermentation chamber and keep one beer 50 degrees with a heating wrap and the other at 35? Do these controllers use two...

Recipe Type: Extract Yeast: S-05 Batch Size (Gallons): 2.4 Original Gravity: 1.061 Final Gravity: 1.014 IBU: 49.1 Boiling Time (Minutes): 60 Color: 7.9 Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp): 10 at 65-66 Tasting Notes: Lychee like aroma with some Floral notes, nice bitterness with a...

Completed my first partial mash last night and somehow managed to hit all the numbers right on and I have a ton of action in the airlock as of right now. The problem is today is hot as hell, the place where I ferment probably got into the 80's by around Noon. My fermenter bucket is sort of...

Ok I've got a new baby coming in a couple weeks and I'm trying to sneak a brew in without spending too much cash. Here's what I have on hand. 2 oz of Saaz, 1 oz Sterling, .5 Oz Cascade and 1 Oz Northern Brewer. About 2.5 lbs of Light DME About .5 lb of Amber DME I have some bottles of...

I worked on my second brew last Saturday and the process went much smoother than first. The brew started fermenting by the morning and bubbled for two days. It stopped but then one day I accidentally kicked my fermenter (it's under my desk) and now its been bubbling for two days. What's...

Someone gave me a free mini-fridge but it's really small. It's 16" H x 16" D x 18" W. Those are the inside measurements. Has anyone ever lifted the top of a mini fridge and built a collar that way? Just looking for some good ideas or I might trade it for something else. I'm new to...

I checked out some brewing books from the library and downloaded the Beersmith Trial program but I can't get any of the gravity readings to match up. The most confusing one is Brewing Classic Styles because they use 7 gallon boils . Can I just formulate the recipes in Beersmith based on the...

Yesterday I completed my first boil following the instructions for J. Palmer's Cincinnati Pale Ale. It seemed to go smoothly but took a bit longer than I expected. I started around 8:30 with the DME mixed into the water and didn't really get a boil until about an hour later. After that I...