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A few years back I made an ok root beer with extract, cane sugar and ale yeast. Carved in 2liter bottles. I tried last month, and it stank to high heaven. We almost gagged after cracking the lid because the sulfur was so high, and it did not dissipate. I used safale05. Last week, I tried...

I’ve brewed a couple dozen batches of beer, so I’m not totally green, but I’ve never made mead. If I ruin a batch, too bad, but not the end of the World. Still, advice can be nice. My goal is one gallon, sweet and still. I’d like to steer away from orange or cinnamon or cloves or any other...

It's clear from the bulk of the posts that many of us are chasing a very specific vision. I brew not to reach some Platonic ideal of the art, but enjoy the process and the outcome. OG and FG get measured only out of curiousity. I grow hops not because I can dial in exactly the right flavor...

We moved this summer, and now that plants are going dormant, we went back to dig perennials, including hops. I decided to take the whole crown, and holy cow, what a job. The soil was loose enough and the rhizomes have just enough give that I couldn't chop them with the shovel. They would...

Just picked up a cider press for this weekend. We don't have a ton of apples to do - I anticipate five gallons of juice, but that's just a guess. The owner of the press could not find the nylon mesh bags that hold the ground apples as they are pressed. Can I use clean t-shirts?

After abandoning a simple cider for four months in a primary bucket, I think I'm going to bottle. Anyone want to talk me out of it? The recipe is just cheap grocery store juice and Safale 04. I made it once before and back sweetened with cranberry cocktail, then stovetop pasteurized...

I've got a porter in primary, in a PET bucket. Because of a string of family and medical emergencies, I basically had to forget about this batch for nine weeks. I checked on it today, hoping it might be okay to bottle. Peeking through the airlock I see a pretty good bunch of fuzzy green...

Looking forward to pitching my first cider tomorrow! I really pulled out the stops for this one. - five gallons of store-brand apple cider (yes, preservative free). - safale 05, because it's what I have. - brown sugar proofing solution, because the yeast is a few months old, stored in OK...

Hello! Last night, we bottled a pale ale, the very first batch for us. I've gleaned a good deal of advice lurking here, so I thought I'd say thanks. There's an oatmeal stout I'm much more excited about still in the fermented, though I pitched it a few days before the PA. Gravity keeps...