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I've been making this for years, using Vermont maple sap from my trees. One batch a year in the spring... usually March when the sap runs. Simply replace the water in a mead recipe with maple sap. Not maple syrup... that stuff is $40 a gallon. I don't taste the sap in the finished product...

Working on a Spruce Tips Holiday Ale and looking for suggestions and ideas, especially from those who have brewed with spruce. Using Norway Spruce tips picked and frozen this spring. Doing a smaller batch and will bottle and age. Likely will use an English yeast: Spruce Tips 21-B...

Some of the more interesting beers that I have tried use spruce tips as a flavoring agent. I understand that you should use fresh, new growth spruce tips harvested in the spring. In my area, there are red, black and white spruce that grow natively...as well as planted blue spruce. White...

Second year I've done this: 12 lbs clover honey Boiled and cooled maple sap... reduced ~15-20% Lavin D-47 Staggered nutrient additions. The maple sap ups the ABV (sap straight from the tree is about 2% sugar) and I think adds some readily available fermentables that boost the yeast...

Put together my first mead this afternoon. I have been brewing beer w/ maple sap for a couple of years now, and figured WTH. Final volume ~ 5.25 G 4 gallons boiled and cooled maple sap ~ 2.5% sugar 12 lbs. Clover Honey 2 pkg Lavin D-47 Yeast Nutrient/Energizer blend Rehydrated the...

Local hardware store has 32 Gallon snap top plastic garbage cans on sale for $10 each. Any idea how many pounds of grain can be stored in a 32 G container? TIA

Reading the July / Aug Zymurgy mag, Dear Professor section. In response to a question, the Professor says he adds a tsp. of cinnamon to all his mashes. I read over his reply a couple of times and he states "cinnamon and other high tannin compounds... help reduce the oxidizing staling process"...

I'm retiring at the end of the school year :D Gonna sit on the porch, brew in hand and yell at the kids to stay off my lawn. I have enough projects to keep me busy around the house and SWMBO has decided to continue teaching for another year or so.... I'm thinking it will be a smooth...

Came across this on AHA listserv: Beer wars April release

Feel like an idiot here, but how do you use the little measuring chamber on the StarSan bottle? On the right in the photo. I'm tilting it, unscrewing caps and I can't figure it out. TIA

Please help me identify my mystery hops. Here's what I know about them: The "parent plant" was started in the early to mid 1980's. The original owner thinks he may have obtained them through an ad in the Farmer's Almanac. They seem to be aroma hops. The age of the original plant...

9.0 lbs 2-Row Brewers Malt 2.0 lbs American Vienna 0.5 lbs American Caramel 20°L 1 oz Nuggett (8.5%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min 0.5 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 30.0 min 0.25 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added during boil, boiled 15.0 min 0.25 oz Cascade (5.5%) - added...

Bag-It (A Long Trail Double Bag Clone) 12.5 lbs Pale Ale Malt 0.25 lbs American Chocolate Malt 1.0 lbs Wheat Malt 1.0 lbs 2-Row Caramel Malt 80L 14. g Northern Brewer (8.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min 18 g Willamette (5.0%) - added during boil, boiled 30.0 min 14. g Mt. Hood...

I've got a couple of bigger beers.. an attempt at a Double Bag clone and a barleywine that will be ready for conditioning soon and I'm considering crash cooling the secondary as I usually do. Then transferring to the cornie and force carbing. I'm thinking of storing the carbed brew at cellar...

The rainy days have given me a chance to brew more often and make some long term plans. So,how does this barleywine recipe look...especially the rye flakes? Probably not true to style. And will Nottingham handle the 9.43 ABV. TIA for your feedback. 19-C American Barleywine Size: 5.0 gal...

Visited the Long Trail Brewery today for lunch and "research". Ordered the sampler: Raspberry Wheat, Belgian White, Hef, L.T. Ale, IPA & Double Bag. The star was the Double Bag... described as an Altbier, 7.5 ABV, Ingredients: Ale malt, caramel malt, Chocolate malt, Northern Brewer...

Rainy day... so I bagged the honey dew list and started a batch of homebrew. About 30 minutes into the 90 minute boil, there's a little thunder and the power goes out. I'm OK because I'm boiling with propane in the garage. At the end of the boil, still no lights. I have a well. No power...

I've been brewing my variation of Edwort's Haus Ale using homegrown hops. I renamed it Vermont Brick Haus Ale: 9.0 lbs American 2-row 2.0 lbs American Vienna 0.50 lbs American Caramel 20°L 0.25 lbs Cara-Pils® Malt 1.0 oz Nugget (9.0%) - added during boil, boiled 60.0 min 0.5...

The rubber on the bottom of my cornies marks up and discolors pretty much anything it comes in contact with... my hands, the bottom of my kegerator and the floor / carpet if I set it down. Has anyone discovered a way to seal or condition the rubber so this isn't a problem? TIA

I have an ESB in the secondary to which I should have added mineral salts. What would happen if I added a small amount of boiled sterilized water with the needed salts when transferring to the keg? Or would it have no effect... or worse screw up the batch? TIA