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ABOUT ME

City: Maricopa AZ
General Interests: fabrication,Building turbo systems,and building race engines
Occupation: Auto mechanic
Real Name: Pat Barch
Favorite Movies: Boondock Saints!!!
Favorite Television Shows: Eurika, diners drive ins and dives,
Favorite Books: Mobey dick, Dean koontz, most of David Eddings books
Home Brewing Biography: I brew because I hate dragging a halfbarrel of beer into my car, across the phoenix valley, out of my car, and into my house! I had my first taste of homebrew at the Great AZ beer festival back in 2003, there was a booth from my LHBS, the beer was fantastic!!
I currently have a Barley Crusher malt mill, 2 keggles, 2 7 gallon turkey fryers, one with a modded burner, 1 Better Bottle, 3 six gallon PET Bottles, 1 thirty foot ribcage immersion chiller, 1 Ice Cube Braided MLT, 1 converted dorm fridge fermentation chamber with a 12" collar and johnson controls temp controller, and 14 corneys to put all that beer in!
Future Brews: Oaked Pale Ale, more Irish Red, working on a "banana nut brown ale" idea, and a spruce tip pale ale if I can get my hands on some spruce tips this spring...
Bottled: kegs baby, kegs!
Gender: Male
Status: Married

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Blueberry Summer Ale on 05-12-2013 at 08:14 PM
I have my beer in light hybrid in my notes, and when I have entered it in competitions I have
used light hybrid as the base style with good results.
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-10-2013 at 05:41 AM
Lots I bet. I usually make all efforts to recreate recipes, then fool with them later. I kinda
winged this one for National Homebrewers Day. Still, I bet it turns out well.What did you
change up?
Posted in thread: Blueberry Summer Ale on 05-10-2013 at 05:40 AM
I brewed up a batch of this two weeks ago, and added six pounds of puréed blueberries tonight.
Those things turn the beer purple really fast. I'm really looking forward to trying this next
month.Last ...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-07-2013 at 04:06 AM
I wonder how many different "house versions" of this recipe are in use now...Hmmm :D
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-06-2013 at 03:20 AM
My girlfriend routinely chooses this beer over my two hearted clone and we're both hop heads.
It's been 4 weeks in bottles and this is my new favorite saison.I need to print these sorta
posts out and ...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 05-02-2013 at 04:16 PM
I hold temp untill fermentation is stopped dead for a week or so
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 04-28-2013 at 03:49 PM
I love that the very spirit of saisons is alive and doing well in my thread, too often I see
people panic that they don't have a specific ingredient and it's freak out time!Saisons were
brewed with wh...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 04-27-2013 at 02:21 PM
Please help. I am getting ready to brew this one and my LHBS did not have Sorachi Ace. He
suggested 1 oz of Saphir instead at the same schedule. Thoughts?Isn't that a citrus/tangerine
flavored noble h...
Posted in thread: Reaper's Mild, 1st place 2011 HBT Competition on 04-27-2013 at 02:14 PM
Anyone brew this with US Crystal Malts? just curious how it turned out. Has anyone tried side
by side US Crystal vs. UK Crystal?EDIT: Im gonna brew mine with whatever my HBS carries, which
I think is ...
Posted in thread: Cottage House Saison on 04-23-2013 at 08:54 PM
Brewed this the last weekend. The LHS was out of caramunich so substituted 3.2 oz Special B
Malt and 4.8 oz 60L crystal. Part way through the mash I realized my digital thermometer wasn't
working corr...