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Bottling
Tips and tricks to finding a home for your beer.
Equipment
Show off your equipment, share tips on maintaining and sanitizing.
Terms
Common home brewing terms and jargon for the new home brewer.

Recipes

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Share your recipes and comment on other's recipes that you try.
Beer Related Recipes
Do you have a good recipe that uses beer (or wine)? Know of any good marinade's? Let us know about them here.

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.

Home Brewing Community

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
Talk about your favorite beers and wines (and meads and ciders, etc) with other beer and wine lovers.

Brew Market

Selling Brewing Stuff
Whether its equipment or ingredients, if you need to get rid of some of your brewing stuff, do it here.
Buying Brewing Stuff
Why pay regular price when you can request what you need from our brewing community?

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BKB Home Brewing Blog Posts

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 [...]

Building a kegerator

Tired of cleaning out your bottles? Maybe it is time to start kegging your beer! Like anything else there are certain advantages and disadvantages to almost every process that can be done more than one way. Let’s face it, our goal as homebrewers is to have a full glass of the highest quality homebrew you [...]

Implementing a HERMS easily

So you have made the jump to all grain brewing. Your mash tun has the kinks worked out of it, your sparge methods are pretty sound, and your efficiency is consistant. There is no need to change a thing with your process right? Well that is a matter of opinion. For most everyone in the AG [...]

No boil starters

So there is no argument, most everyone will agree that a proper yeast count will yield a healthy fermentation, which will lead to proper attenuation as well as yeast performing in a comfortable lower stress environment. This equates to the most accurate flavor profile of your beer. Some may say that underpitching stresses the yeast [...]

Brewing equipment made simple, kinda, The Mash Tun

The mash tun is a piece of equipment used by the “all grain” brewer. Put simply, it is a vessel, in which the milled, malted grain is placed with hot water to release the sugars necessary for fermentation. The mash tun is one of the easiest, yet most confusing pieces of equipment to the [...]

Blowing Off Bacteria

Face it, making beer can make you paranoid. Everything has to be spotless and sanitary. The boil has to be watched carefully to ensure that the new brew isn’t scorched or doesn’t boil over. Hops have to be added at just the right time. Temperatures have to be monitored so that the delicate new [...]

The natural progression of equipment

After reading many posts over several months on various forums, there seems to be one thing evident with this hobby/obsession that I share as many others may. I thought I could dive in with the basic start up kit and make some OK beer to satisfy my craving for a hobby that produces an end product [...]