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ABOUT ME

About Me: Professional Photographer: http://photography.digitalgibson.com
Architectural/Engineering Designer: http://engineering.digitalgibson.com
Gibson Gardens Products: http://www.digitalgibson.com/GibsonGardens
...also a carpenter, woodworker, cabinetmaker, painter, digital modeler, sculptor, computer programmer, web designer, etc.
...not to mention extensive experience in theatre production and directing, and concert production from private parties to major festivals.
General Interests: photography,gardening,structural design
Occupation: Blueberry Farmer
Real Name: Bryan Gibson
Favorite Music: good jams, classic rock, metal, old-skool hip-hop, blues
Favorite Movies: Beer Wars, How Beer Saved the World
Favorite Television Shows: Brew Masters (BRING IT BACK!!!), Brewing TV, Men Brewing Badly (UK), BYOB TV (KOFY)
Favorite Books: Fourfield (an exploration into non-Euclidean multidimensional geometry)
Clubs and Associations: Association of Computing Machinery, SIGGRAPH, SIGCHI; Phi Sigma Kappa; Sierra Club; Ocean Defenders
Home Brewing Biography: My father brewed in college (in 20+ gallon batches in trash cans...and only aging one week before drinking...couldn't have been very tasty!). I tasted one of the old bottles (50/50 Coopers extract and table sugar was the recipe) and the sugar had indeed turned to slightly vinegary cider, it was almost drinkable - not bad sanitation, I guess!
I assisted in numerous batches of all sorts in college and a few friends even opened a local microbrewery for a few years.
I'm currently running numerous experiments with spent grains, hop candy, hopped sugars, custom malting/toasting, and of course (like any good tinkerer/homebrewer), designing a bunch of custom equipment...also recently got certified as a Cicerone C.B.S.
Future Brews: * Blueberry Melomel *
* another Smoked Blueberry Chipotle Ale *
* a lavender or heather beer *
* a heavy rum route tribute with molasses, cane sugar, brown sugar, etc. *
* something with juniper or spruce *
Primary: Tavernacle Special Bitter
Secondary: Chocolate IPA
Bottled: ***<[ RIP ]>***
Startup Scottish Ale,
Chocolate-Vanilla Stout,
Hop-Hanger IPA,
Whis'Kee-Whe'Add Ale,
Red Alert Irish Red Ale,
"My Cousin Vinny" Oatmeal-Amber Ale,
OktoberMissed Oktoberfest/Marzen,
Solstice Special Ale,
Dunkelglatt German Dark Ale,
Solstice Special Ale v2,
Grumpy Gorilla Robust Porter,
Summertime in India Pale Ale,
Honey Rye Irish Blonde Ale,
Irish Lassie Strawberry Blonde Ale,
Tepee Nights Smoked Amber Ale,
Smokey's Blueberry Chipotle Ale

***<[ ON TAP ]>***
Trappist Patersbier Belgian-Style Singel,
Golden Rye Irish Draught Ale,
Hop-Hammer IPA,
Cone-King Imperial IPA,
Elgnt Nudite Brown Ale,
RYpalE Ale,
Cornucopia Punk-Kin Ale,
Hop S'lad IPA

***<[ CONDITIONING ]>***
Patersbier Belgian-Style Open-Top Experiment,
Chocolate Kona Porter,
Chocolate IPA
Kegged: no room for kegs (yet)
Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship

City: Manchester

State/Province: NH

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Best Brewing software on 01-16-2013 at 02:16 PM
As someone who was a software developer in a previous life, I've tried out all that I have come
across (and built my own spreadsheets in Excel with the various formulae). My favorite,
hands-down, is B...
Posted in thread: Brewery names--what's your story? on 12-15-2012 at 08:18 AM
Brood HomebreweryOriginally a name coined for a computer games company that never got off the
ground in the late 90's, I've used it for a few projects over the years....Dark Brood seems to
have stuc...
Posted in thread: Man, I love Apfelwein on 10-26-2012 at 03:38 PM
I have to say, the idea of cranberry juice added sounds yum, though you'd have to keep in mind
the change in acidity and adjust to taste. And juice, not cocktail. Mmmmmmmmmm...... I do have
an empty 5...
Posted in thread: Caramel Apple Hard Cider on 10-26-2012 at 03:13 PM
I couldn't help but notice that this recipe is basically the same as Edwort's Apfelwein with a
different yeast and backsweetened with the caramel and juice. I am wondering what difference
the notty is...
Posted in thread: Caramel Apple Hard Cider on 10-26-2012 at 03:10 PM
I think what my problem was, was my air lock didn't have enough fluid. After that it started
bubbling every second. though I gotta admit I was pretty damn happy to see it bubbling away in
the bucket.G...
Posted in thread: Caramel Apple Hard Cider on 10-23-2012 at 07:31 AM
Prost fellas!I have a question about the yeast nutrients in the updated PART 1 on page 42.I
made my hard cider based on PART 1 in the OP recipe (OG 1.070 using Trader Joe's Unfiltered
Organic Apple Ju...
Posted in thread: Some laws about beer? on 10-01-2012 at 01:02 PM
If you want to brew to sell beer at parties, you are probably going to end up with something or
other on your permanent record......and it's worth pointing out that this isn't a
local-cops-deal-with-i...
Posted in thread: Caramel Apple Hard Cider on 10-01-2012 at 12:24 PM
Excellent... Thanks, I really appreciate the advice. (Ha ha ha... I'm siting here trying to
figure out how to make alcohol from scratch, but didn't know how to make concentrate.) I did
actually try to...
Posted in thread: Seeking a lower FG. How? on 10-01-2012 at 12:19 PM
How about yeast nutrient? Seems to help my beers finish out better. Also after 4-5 days I like
to rock my fermentor and warm it up to about 70, which gets the yeast back into suspension and
gets em ba...
Posted in thread: 2011 LongShot Judging Sheets? on 09-29-2012 at 08:14 PM
Once again, Sam Adams promised to deliver score sheets by Sept. 1...it'll be October in 2 days
and I haven't heard anything yet....anyone else out there get some results for this year?(I
still haven't...