I was sitting home Saturday [first weekend off in a very long time] wanted to brew Sunday so I just cleaned out the bins. Here's the grain bill 12 gallon batch 18# 2 row 2# Vienna 2#rye malt 2#oatmeal 1# crystal 120 Mashed at 155 for 60 min started out with 1.5 Oz ea of chinook and centennial...

Going to the cellar to get canned goods for the better half and stopping to take a whiff of the heavenly hoppy aroma coming from the airlock of the brew you did last weekend!

My brother in law (the guy that put the bug in my brain to start brewing) is getting married. He has asked me to brew the beer for his wedding in early June so I gotta start thinking about what I'm going to do, cream ale is what he wants but I'd like to have another flavor there too I was...

I brewed a cream ale actually I've brewed it 5 times the recipe calls for both corn and rice but every time I do after it's done fermenting a thick cottage cheese like layer remains on top.at first I thought the beer wasn't done but I hit my FG and it remained the same for 2 weeks it's like a...

My brother in law ( bless his heart) picked up a keg at a garage sale for $2 whoever had it had installed small pioneer couplers on it and used it for some kind of petroleum storage tank! Is there any way I can clean it out to use it for beer and convert this keg to ball lock seeing how its a...

So I tried my hand at washing out some yeast and after it sat in the fridge for a few weeks I figured I'd make a starter and see if it worked and it did perfectly! Now I'm keeping it on the counter as a pet! I feed it once in a while and this weekend after I got done brewing I made some spent...

Just a thank you to everyone on here! No matter if you have you have relied to a post I've written or if I have read a post concerning a question I've had .........thank you! I struggled at first but thanks to everyone on here my brews have been first class and keep improving the longer I'm...

OK so just to set up this story my brewing setup is a 15 gallon 3 kettle setup eventually as I can afford the pieces I'll have a pump but for now it's all manual. I emailed my LHBS to mill my favorite golden ale recipe I always brewed a 6 gallon batch but decided since I had plenty of fermenter...

Brewed a large batch of Honeywiess a couple weeks ago it appears to be done fermenting so I pulled the lid off the pail to take a gravity and there are a couple of small spots of green mold about the size of a pencil eraser floating in it! Is it OK?

I know this probably sounds bad but I live within 5 miles of a landfill as a result they sample my well water every year. My well is 236 feet deep so I'm not too concerned about it. But from a brewing perspective what should I be looking for on the report they send me? I see my PH is 8.31

I brewed an all grain wheat beer over a month ago and had a very vigorous fermentation it plugged the air lock so many times I can't remember but I attributed it to too small of a fermenter so this time I got a larger pail and had plenty of head space but am having the same issue! Is there any...

I have become a brewaholic! I've only got 4 all grain bread under my belt but I can already see this as an addiction and I'm sure you're gonna be seeing me around here quite a bit! Too bad for you! Lol :lol: :lol: :lol: