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ABOUT ME

Occupation: Being Awesome
Real Name: Dan
Home Brewing Biography: I always found our American history to be intriguing..American moonshiners past and present, the Whiskey Rebellion,the folly that was (and still is) Prohibition. I began to really enjoy local beers (Bells Beer in Comstock/Kalamazoo, MI) and at the same time began to garden and grow/can/pickle my own food. So, I thought, "If I can grow my own food, I can make my own beer." I actually made 5 gallons of hard cider as my first brew of choice, because it was fall and SW Michigan has many cider options available. It turned out very strong and too much of an astringent taste, but that didn't stop me from enjoying every last damn drop!
Future Brews: Edwort's Apfelwein, or hard cider using Nottingham yeast, Some sort of Brown Ale, preferably a Bell's Brown Ale clone
Primary: Blueberry Skeeter Pee (Blue Balls), Black Cherry Apple hard cider
Secondary: soon to be my Skeeter Pee and Black Cherry Apple cider
Bottled: Hard cider - last winter, Hefeweisen - 07-08-2012
Kegged: don't have the room for the keg setup I want....yet...
Status: In a Relationship

City: Signal Mountain

State/Province: TN

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: What's the worst craft brew (commercial) you've had? on 04-05-2013 at 02:16 AM
Lynchburg Lager - I drank 2 of the 6 and offered the rest away. I still have 1 left from
several months ago. It tasted tasted like a skunky and "lite" malt liquor.I like Red Brick's
Brown Ale but ever...
Posted in thread: Using canned pears for Perry? on 04-03-2013 at 11:00 AM
Has anyone used those cans of pear halves packed in pear juice (NOT HFCS) to make a perry, or
has anyone here ever used canned fruit when making ciders or wines?
Posted in thread: BACON cider on 04-03-2013 at 10:45 AM
Do this and post the results STAT.
Posted in thread: Bottled, to dribk or not to dribk? on 03-23-2013 at 01:42 PM
What was your final gravity of the cider before you primed it? What was the gravity after you
primed it? You need to, at the very least, get those things in a cold refrigerator or
pasteurize them so t...
Posted in thread: What's the worst craft brew (commercial) you've had? on 03-23-2013 at 05:12 AM
I've had doubly magic hat I'm a bottle a few times, but never had a bad experience on draft.
Fat tire to me is horrible in bottles and cans (too many times wasting money buying it again at
the store) ...
Posted in thread: Friday Night Brew-Down on 03-23-2013 at 05:06 AM
Anyone else brew anything tonight? I just finished a pale ale True Brew kit. I took a 5 month
hiatus but now I am back to my favorite hobby :cheers:
Posted in thread: Limeade (margarita wine) on 02-17-2013 at 08:53 PM
Update here: still haven't bottled it yet; my laziness has made me let this one bulk age for
the past few months. The tartness seems to have mellowed from the last taste test, although if
I don't swee...
Posted in thread: What's the worst craft brew (commercial) you've had? on 02-17-2013 at 08:49 PM
Every time I go back up to Michigan I bring back as many types of Shorts beer as I can, along
with requests from my friends here in Tennessee for some if their Pandemonium pale ale. I have
yet to find...
Posted in thread: Recipe for light cider on 12-22-2012 at 08:53 PM
Buy some cider, yeast, and sugar. Let it go until the yeast is finished, piss in it, then
you're ready to bottle! Actually I have no idea how to make a "light" cider. Start with a lower
gravity cider ...

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