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This happened around 5 years ago, so we can at least laugh about it now! I, like some others here, will always have beers while brewing. It is not as fun during Canadian winters, but any nice spring to fall day brewing outdoors is awesome. We will crack the first bottles around 10, after we have...

Wow, that recipe looks great! Good idea with the roasted/chocolatey malts mixed with the hops and earthy/grassy bitterness from the yerba. I wonder what a little smoke would do? I would think that some residual sweetness rather than a dryer beeer would be helpful too! My last yerba mate beer...

I have two 5 gal batches of Flanders Red Ale that have been fermenting for 10 months in glass carboys. There is either mold or a pellicle growing in both, hopefully the latter! I plan to brew a fresh Flanders and a Belgian Triple, and mix certain blends before throwing them back into those glass...

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I need to post this since it has happened a couple of times now. Has anyone, who has steeped their mate before adding it to the wort, noticed that after a couple beers that they can stay up all night? I am very used to the effects of yerba mate normally, but it still surprises me when I drink 2...

I have done two, and I have gone with an IPA for both. I figured that any extra bitterness from the mate would lend itself better to an already bitter beer, rather than dominating another milder beer. Other stronger beers might work, like a porter/stout or strong belgian. Really my goal is to...

Nice work! I am a week or two away of trying it. I tried a sample of mine this week and it definitely needs more time bottle maturing. Not as sweet as I wanted, and not nearly as hoppy from the dry hopping I wanted either. Hopefully the less sweetness means more sugar converted to alcohol. So...

Homebrewtastic, you mentioned you would have cut the coffee and chocolate, and molasses in half. Is that still true now that is it aged? Also, with the molasses, would you recommend using a dark natural maple syrup instead? Any ideas of how this would affect it? Thanks, this is quickly moving up...

I did it, made a Mateveza 2.0! First step: Prepare Mate -I was going to start by making a vodka infusion of the mate, but after I dumped 1/3 of a bottle of Skyy vodka into 250g of mate (Taragui - Citricos del Litoral), it was soaked up by the mate. An actually infusion would require more vodka...

Well, here we go again. It is just over 1 year since I made my very first batch of homebrew, and the style was a hybrid experiment. Since it was my first batch, I used a 5 gallon IPA extract kit. Once it was ready for the secondary, I 'dry hopped' a 500g package of yerba mate. It was a regular...