This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by CNYBrew.com) is “Remember why we brew?”:
Whether it’s the inflated sense of independence that the smell of mashing malt brings or just some image of yourself as a beer artisan that brewing creates, I want to hear about it. No limits here, it can be what started you down [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by A World of Brews) is about breaking away from the norm:
Most home brewers I know and read about use the standard 2 row base malt and the 3 big C’s for the hops and maybe a nice 1056 or 05 for the yeast. In my book that is [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Brew Dudes) is all about brewing in the summer:
How do you beat the heat of summer time brewing? From brew house conditions to managing fermentation temperatures, what do you do differently to continue to brew quality beers?
Tim and I do all our brewing outside in our screened-in porch, [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Ted’s Homebrew Journal) is “Brewday Joy & Stress”:
a. What part of the your brewday brings you the most JOY?
b. What part particularly brings out a good deal of STRESS?
Fortunately, our brewday involves a heck of a lot more joy than stress! Especially now that we’ve been brewing for [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Northern Table) is:
My topic is all about liquor… and how you use it in your brewing! Have you infused a beer with liquor before either to blend with the flavour (port infused stout as an example)? Have you had a good example of this? Do you think brewers [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by HomeBrewBeer.net) is “Embrace Your Spring Fever”:
How will you grow or change as a homebrewer this Spring? How will you embrace your Spring fever and channel it toward your homebrewing endeavors?
Ahhh, spring…
I’m not sure if I’ve ever expressed my hatred for winter in my blog. The cold, the [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by A World of Brews) is about the hilarious and always entertaining sanitation:
Like most topics in home brewing there are 100’s of different ways to clean and sanitize your equipment. I would like you to post about the process and chemicals you use to prepare your equipment. I would [...]

This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Pfiff!) is homebrewing horror stories.

Here goes… *ahem*
It was a dark and stormy night, many moons ago. Two young homebrewers, Steph and Tim, sat in the firelight, discussing their next recipe.
“Why don’t we do something crazy?” pondered Steph. “Like a 100+ IBU IPA using only Warrior hops!”
Tim agreed, “That’s [...]