Recent content by BigBill

Anyone ever been? How long is the wait for Growler fills? Seems like a good alternative to Hill Farmstead if you live in Boston. (e.g. high quality & a lot closer.)

Anyone know if they will fill Growlers with other brewery's names on them?

I had a batch set mine off once... Hasn't beeped since.... Long story short I had a slow start so I moved closer to furnace since that part of basement is warmer. Ended up putting right under detector and beeped twice.....

Curious how quickly people brew/carb.... Noticed on twitter Shaun Hill mentioned releasing 3 weeks post brewing.... Starting to rethink my 3 week fermentations / 3 week carbing......

City Beer right?

Staying at Marriott @ 780 Mission St (near 4th and Market). No car and not a lot of time to travel (conference) what are the best bars / bottle shops in the area?

I have some NS and wanted to do a single hop beer. Inspired by Hill Farmstead, but not much info out there. Anyone want to critic my recipe? 3 G batch 3.5lbs Extra Light Extract 0.3lb Dextersoe 0.25lb C40 ("Grain Bill" %;s was pulled from a HF Galaxy clone I found online. 88% 2...

Feel free to comment.... Really just a post to evaluate process more than anything.... Brewed a Kern River Citra DIPA clone.... Gave it 3 wks fermentation and bottled. Tried a bottle 2 weeks after bottling to determine whether to take some on vacation. It was delicious/amazing so I...

I have a couple of buddies coming over tomorrow to try all the Growlers i picked up so I will have to pass on trading... I will add a ton of places have HF in tap in the area... see link http://www.hillfarmstead.com/where-to-find-our-beer/ I was going to grab a bite to eat before driving...

Wife and kids were away so I figured it was time for a trip up to VT to grab some Heady Topper and Hill Farmstead. Modern day Smokey and the Bandit minus one Trans Am. I left south of Boston @ 8 to get to Alchemist right @ 11 when it opened.... Was pumped to see no one there until I saw the...

Hi - Could anyone help me convert Mikkeller Single Hop recipe from grain to extract? I got a few hop varieties that I want to get rid of and I figured this would be more fun than a SMASH. For the single hop beers they are all brewed with the same base-recipe: 67% pilsner malt 11%...

OK, sorry to have misunderstood. Regarding your actual question (now that I understand) I think finding outside areas mentioned in VT is really tough. From reading the news they occasionally ship pallets to Boston (NY and Philly too) and I believe a limited number of cases get sent to each...

They have a map... http://www.alchemistbeer.com/retail-availability/ You have to go pretty far north to Montpelier/Burlington/Waterbury to get it for sure. Closer to Canada than MA.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I really appreciate it. For now I am sticking to extract, though I would like to eventually move to AG. With a wife who stays home with two kids under the age of 5 and a job that keeps me out of the house about 60 hours a week, I am going to have a tough time...

Planning on brewing Jamil's clone: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f69/kern-river-citra-dipa-343603/ Grain Bill is: 10 lbs 6 oz Great Western 2 Row (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 82.0 % 9.2 oz Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 2 4.6 % 9.2 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 10L (10.0 SRM) Grain 3 4.6 % 9.2 oz...