YKYAHBW: you find yourself buying commercial beer for the free empty bottles that come with them. you find that the 10x10 room you are using to store your brewing equipment suddenly isn't big enough. you find yourself constantly talking about beer styles, brewing, yeast and technique with ppl who do...

pour the wort into the lbk. get a sanitized spoon or whisk. carefully agitate the wort for a couple minutes to work oxygen into it. be very careful not to scrape or scratch the bottom of the keg or the sides. scratches make wonderful places for bacteria to grow. sprinkle the yeast on top. some stir ...

cant start anything until I find a place to live in march. one of the joys of renting... stupid owners who tell you they want a long term tenant , then once you get comfy they decide to sell the house out from under you. 2nd time in 10 years here. yay! im too old and fat for this crap.

IDAHB because maybe... just maybe.. it will make my so called 'life' suck just a little less. or perhaps some blueberry mead. everything's slightly better with homebrew.

got no problem with the responsible harvest of animals for meat but beer? somehow meat beer seems like an abomination to me. now meat WITH beer is yum. as is beer with meat.

I bought the chocolate milk stout from northern brewer. I cold steeped some starbucks espresso (about 3/4 Liter) for a couple days and added it to the wort at flame out. I had the cacao nibs soaking for a couple days in vodka to extract and sterilize. .. added to secondary fermenter after 2 weeks. i...

happy brew year

crazyclimber - I'm reluctant to give my computer's files to anyone other than me. yeah I know.. overly paranoid me, break out the tinfoil hat but... call me crazy - I just don't trust anyone. it would be super easy for them to either send all your files to the nsa or perhaps if they got hacked you w...

ok so maybe I was expect more. a guy at work raves about it so I finally tried it. served at about 62f because I couldn't wait to chill it. impression: color - lighter than expected.. a pale straw with a strong head of foam aroma - wheaty, earthy some spice but absolutely no banana esters ( everythi...

got married... relocated to Pensacola because I thought I had a job. market dried up... burned through all my funds and was living on credit cards.. not well..fun times! started reading books on herbal medicine coz times were so bad I was considering selling organs and blood (and couldn't afford a d...

every rye extract I can find is a blend and not just plain rye. don't they make just rye extract? if not why? I know you can mash rye (I think they suggest using rice hulls too) but I just find it odd that they don't sell it already made for you.

omg.. windows 7 is seriously giving me brain tumors!!!! I stumbled on something by accident. windows 7 has a built in backup/restore software utility as we already know. according to Microsoft if you do a system image it backs up everything BUT... you can only use it to restore your entire disk if t...

nb munich malt extract - Northern Brewer Munich malt syrup is a 50/50 blend of pale and Munich malts

nb rye extract - This proprietary blend of 70% 2-row, 20% malted rye, and 10% caramel 40 malt

hmmm... I thought the rye extract was going to be all rye.

yep...northern brewer.

thanks mashani / swenocha ... since I am at work and don't have access to a recipe calculator that includes rye extract, what's this sound like: it might be a little high on the abv.. had to guess at weights. (rough measures) 1.0 lb munich malt extract 1.0 lb wheat malt extract 2.0 lb rye malt extra...