The only grapefruit citrus beer that I have enjoyed is Legacy IPA by Saranac. I'd describe it as crisp, clean grapefuit but balanced with a beer taste and not oily/musty like some grapefruit ones. My favorite beers tend to be lagers like Zywieck, Okocim, Spaten. I've used East Kent...

I use 4 oz of dextrose(corn sug) in 2 cups of boiled water for 5 gal. I'd say 2 oz in 1 cup would make 2.5 gal. or 1 oz (28g) in 1/2 cup for 1.25 gal. 33 g and 3/4 cup for 1.5 gal sounds great, especially if it's worked for you already. If you're worried about losing some of the water when...

I'd be interested in seeing a blueberry ale. Boston-Beer-Works makes a good one and it's fun to watch the blueberries they throw in float to the surface and then sink down like a lava lamp. A friend made a blueberry beer 2+ years ago with 5-10 pounds of blueberries and he added drops of...

After another week or two the chocolate porter turned out great. Each time I opened one it has made the hiss sound so I figured the caps were on tight, it just needed more time and temp. I've been moving bottles upstairs where the temp is 75 degrees instead of 66 and giving each bottle a...

My first taste of my 3rd homebrew was tonight after bottling 13 days ago. I know 2 weeks is the gold standard but I couldn't wait any longer. My first two beers were extract lagers and I used 4 oz corn sugar(dextrose) and had excellent carbonation in every bottle from day 14 on. This 3rd beer...

My last batch I bottled about 48 glass beer bottles and 1 x 1 Liter cleaned plastic soda bottle as a test. A month after bottling the plastic soda bottle tasted the same as a glass bottle and had good carbonation. I actually didn't think it would work because if you twist open a soda and then...