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I pitched the yeast on my pumpkin ale 4 days ago. The original gravity was 1.040. Fermentation started and bubbled away nicely. The bubbling has stopped my gravity is 1.005. Is it ready for bottling? When I took the gravity, there as alot of sediment in the sample. Does that affect the gravity...

@ ces Yes franks hot sauce was the original sauce that teresa belissimo used back then, and since then there have been tons of variations, I used tobasco because its readily available to us. I would recommend not using clarified butter tho, the only culinary benefit of it, is its high smoking...

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Americans have had all sorts of awesome food ideas when it comes to paring with beer. I have to admit, I had never tried an authentic American buffalo wing until a few days ago, but damn are they good! The following recipe I have adapted requires some basic cooking skills like disassembling...

we have all eaten the white part of a grass stalk before, it's sweet! Not very sweet, but sweet all the same. I'm going to salvage up some fermenters, and try some different grasses.. Would introducing a bit of sucrose or dextrose be cheating? lol at HoppingMad

any ideas anyone? Iv'e seen vodka made from grass. Mabey a high alcohol content could be used to mask the flavor. Also wine can be made out of flowers, bark, seeds etc.

Apparently it's anything made out of a fermented plant

A local winery has asked us to grow fresh wheatgrassfor them.... that they have developed a Sweet Wheatgrass Wine! LOOK OUT!....What's next! Of course it will be a novolty....and has none of the properties of drinking the FRESH wheatgrass juice. You may see pictures of our...

sounds really nice, I may make this my next batch

Grass wine?? Grass beer?? does it exist? a quick google search didn't come up with much.. Anyone know a recipe? I'm thinking wheat grass, but who knows, mabey someone has made wine or beer out of bull grass.

Iv'e been brewing for a good 4 years, not as long as most people on here. That is a great recipe, i have a bottle left that i'm aging. The bread yeast is really interesting

Quick update, iv'e decided that grapes are essental to the brew, be they fresh or saltanas. I'm also going to use a suttle spice mix to compliment the grape. Star anise has been used with grapes for as far back as google can go. And there is something about the unique mix of cloves and grapes...

My brew is ready for secondary next wednesday, and i'm posting a video of adding the fruit

qquick update, iv'e been doing some research on cassia bark (the bark of the Cinnamomum aromaticum tree) and as well as having a great aroma, it has been used in brewing for 1000s of years for it's great cinnamon taste. I just so happen to have a few peices of cassia bark in the pantry. It...

I'm searching for the perfect mead recipe. I'm looking for the perfect honey, the perfect yeast, the perfect additives and the perfect procedure to make the best mead possible. So far iv'e found that the best award winning meads contain some form of fruit, and most contain some form of grape...

Anyone bought labels from beerlabelbuilder.com? I just ordered some and I want to know if the dead space is transparent, cut off etc.

Haha great name. I used a few web generators for the text, and I did the rest in photoshop

my label for my brew :D

I just started a watermelon beer. I used a mangrove jack bavarian wheat with a copper wheat enhancer that looked very hoppy. My local supplier was out of wyeast as iv'e read that using a 3rd party wheat yeast is better for fruit beer. I'm using Brian's rule from outofkeybrewing.com for the...