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01-06-2011

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04-25-2013 8:25 AM

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ABOUT ME

Home Brewing Biography: 01.02.2011 - I brewed my first batch an all-grain Amarillo-Citra IPA. This brewday occurred with the help of a veteran with whom I had brewed all-grain with before.rnrn01.08.2011 - Second batch is the base beer for an Imperial Mayan Stout that will eventually get cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon, and chiles. Half will go into a 3-gallon bourbon barrel.
Primary: Sorachi Lime Saison / Calypso's Ghost Saison / Bitter Beer Face (Amarillo & Simcoe)
Secondary: Lucky Charm Berliner Weissbier / Flanders Red (Straight, Red Wine, and Whiskey) / Sour Blonde (Kiwi)/ Whiskey Barrel Imperial Stout
Kegged: Monnik Blonde / Monnik Blonde (Brett B Trois) / Busted Chimney Dark Berliner / Fireopal Sour Mango
Status: Married

City: Alexandria

State/Province: VA

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: 2013 NHC first round results? on 04-18-2013 at 08:38 PM
well hopefully it was mine. lol and mine did go to mini best of show. :ban: doing the happy
dance again. may 4th can't come quick enough to find out!It was mine (I received confirmation
from the direc...
Posted in thread: 2013 NHC first round results? on 04-18-2013 at 06:54 PM
damn it!! ya'll just bursted my bubble! lol was hoping that they didn't mark anyone's placement
on the score sheets. if they did means i didn't place with my 40 american brown!! oh well still
stoked o...
Posted in thread: 2013 NHC first round results? on 04-17-2013 at 04:48 PM
Word on the street is that the judges at the KC location were instructed to mark 1st 2nd and
3rd on the cover sheets. Can anyone confirm this?I was told that this is what they were
instructed, though ...
Posted in thread: Score sheets from NHC for Kansas City? on 04-15-2013 at 01:33 PM
I was on vacation last Thursday through Saturday and when I arrived home yesterday, my score
sheets had arrived. I posted a bit more detail in this thread: and good luck!
Posted in thread: 2013 NHC first round results? on 04-15-2013 at 01:25 PM
Got my results back from KC. This is the first comp I've entered, and I think I did alright. 5A
Helles Bock 26 12A Brown Porter 3913A Dry Stout 26.525A Cyser 35It said my Brown Porter
advanced to the ...
Posted in thread: 2013 NHC first round results? on 04-15-2013 at 11:02 AM
I got my scores from Kansas City sometime between Thursday and Saturday, as they were there
when I arrived home from vacation last night. I submitted seven beers and had scores ranging
from 23 to 41. ...
Posted in thread: saison yeast temps on 03-21-2013 at 05:41 PM
I want to see the result of this experimentI will make sure to post an update once I taste all
the beers! I'm hoping to do that in the next few weeks.
Posted in thread: saison yeast temps on 03-20-2013 at 06:32 PM
I recently did a saison experiment, brewing enough to put about .75 gallons of the base beer
into 9 separate gallon jugs. More on the recipe here: part of the process, I created a
spreadsheet that s...
Posted in thread: NHC competition - can't register, server slammed? on 02-26-2013 at 08:21 PM
Was just able to enter six in a row without any problems. Seems to be finally working. For
payment, got an error screen after I paid, but immediately afterward got an email receipt, so I
think I'm goo...
Posted in thread: Filtering Fruit from Wilds on 02-26-2013 at 04:28 PM
I've run a few searches here and around the web and come up mostly empty. What does everyone do
with regard to getting fruit out of wilds, berliners, etc? In the past, I've cold crashed and
hoped that...