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Equipment
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Terms
Common home brewing terms and jargon for the new home brewer.

Recipes

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Beer Related Recipes
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Alternative Brewing

Brewing Cider
Techniques for brewing cider. Tips, tricks, questions, they all go here.
Wine
The art of distilling wine. Discuss tricks to the trade, your successes (or failures), and the joy of distilling wine.
Mead
A wine made from fermented honey and water. Discuss brewing this favorite of the Romans and Greeks.

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The Pub
A place to discuss things not about brewing, beer, wine, etc. This is a place to get to know our other members outside of our shared enjoyment of home brewing.
Beer / Wine Talk
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Buying Brewing Stuff
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An Interview with Baxter Brewing Company

Luke Livingston is opening a new brewery in Lewiston, Maine, Baxter Brewing Company, which expects to ship its first cases of beer in September of this year. However, Baxter is not just another craft brewery. In fact, it will be the first craft brewery north of Connecticut to can its entire line of beer. What [...]

Brewing With Chocolate

There are few things in this world as ancient, as revered, as cherished and as highly consumed as beer. One of those things, however, is chocolate. Its history, health benefits, allure and powers as an aphrodisiac are all well documented. Thus it only makes sense that the flavors of the two (beer & chocolate that [...]

Beyond Beer: Brewing Cider, Mead, Wine & Sake

Experimentation is the name of the game for homebrewers – it’s why many brewers continue to develop their hobby and why they choose to brew the beer they drink, rather than (or in addition to) buying it commercially. Homebrewers experiment with different styles, different techniques and different flavors. They go from extract brewing, to the [...]

The Canned Craft Beer Renaissance

There is little doubt that cans are fast becoming a mainstay on the American craft beer landscape. Cans began to appear in the craft market in 2002, when Oskar Blues Brewing Co. (now the 44th largest craft brewery in the country) of Lyons, Colorado purchased a manual, two-headed canning system from Cask Brewing Systems of [...]

Brewing With Fruit

Brewing beers with fruit additions is both fun and delicious, especially as the weather warms and we drag on into summer. But like with any brewing additive, there are many variations and schools of thought on the easiest and best ways to flavor a fruit beer. Once you’ve chosen a fruit flavor to impart in [...]

Beer Wars: The Movie

Simply put, Beer Wars the movie (2009) is one every fan of beer needs to see. The film, which can be downloaded directly from BeerWarsMovie.com, or streamed live (or rented) from NetFlix, was written and narrated by industry insider Anat Baron. In Beer Wars, Baron tells the story of craft brewing hero Sam Calagione, the [...]

Forced Fermentation Test, for accurate attenuation

I have noticed that one of the most frequently asked questions by new and old brewers is, is my beer done fermenting? Well, there are a few ways to answer that; varying from pitching more yeast to be sure, comparing the expected attenuation from the yeast manufacturer with the actual attenuation, or moving the beer [...]

Cleaning out those keg lines the easy way

Most of what you read or hear says to clean out your keg lines every 2 weeks. I know most restaurants are required to do this, (whether they do or not I can’t say), but that is the recommendation. Now I feel that at the homebrew / homebar level that is probably overkill, and a way [...]

Ulterior Motive Recipe

Ulterior Motive Brewing Beer and men go together. This is an accepted, immutable fact which cannot be changed without dire threat to life in this universe as we know it. Since the very balance of our existence hinges on this combination, then it stands to reason that most hobby brewers are men. This isn’t to say [...]

Recipe Review – Clara Bell

Home Brewers Ultimate Recipe Book Clara Bell So, I was scrolling through my copy of the Home Brewers Ultimate Recipe Book (also known as the Best Cookbook Ever) looking for a nice refreshing summery beer when I came across the recipe for Clara Bell. I decided to make it mainly because I noticed [...]