/diy/ - Do It Yourself

greetings /diy/

I'm a relatively new homebrewer (~5 beers brewed, all extract brews made following recipes), and I've got a couple of questions that I'm hoping someone with some more experience answer for me.

1. where do you typically get your recipes? I've used beerrecipes.org for my recipes recently, but have had better success with recipes quickly jotted down by the kind folks at my local home brew shop

2. what literature would you recommend to someone interested in learning more about homebrew/brewing in general? I've just about gotten through Matthew Schaefer's Illustrated Guide to Brewing Beer, and I've learned a ton.

3. Does anyone here have experience building their own mashtun? I'd like to progress from extract brewing into partial mash and all-grain brewing with decent efficiency, so I'm probably going to attempt to create a false bottom mash tun out of a cooler.

4. I'm hoping start brewing a stout in the next week or so and I'm hoping to add coffee and chocolate to it. At what point in the process is the best time to add these ingredients? I've read conflicting sources saying that you should add chocolate/coffee while boiling, and others after you take it off the heat.

5. last one -- what is the best way to turn brewing into a career? is becoming an advanced homebrewer enough to land you a job in a brewery? is it possible to become a cellarman (without brewing experience) and work your way up? or are you limited by education? I've looked into brewing certification programs... are these taken seriously in the brewing world? some more so than others?

any and all relevant answers/discussion is appreciated. trolls will be asked to shotgun tall cans of bud ice

>>583762
Welcome to a Homebrewmen thread, newcomer!

Methanol is a troll word in Homebrewmen threads.

>>549751
Been waiting for one of these to pop up. Are there any good (relatively) quick mead recipes? Every one I've seen takes 6+ months. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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