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There are a lot of breweries in the Boulder area besides Avery. There's Asher, Boulder Beer, Mountain Sun, Upslope, Twisted Pine, plus Left Hand and Oskar Blues (albeit, not their original location) in Longmont. Colorado Springs has Bristol, Trinity, and Phantom Canyon. Ft. Collins also...

I posted this in the GABF thread for those visiting the city, but I'll post it here as well for your information. Renegade Brewing Company. My favorite local brewery. Wit's End Brewing Company <---IMO, they make the city's best Hefe River North Brewery. They primarily use Belgian yeasts in...

Also, there are plenty beer centric bars in the area: The Cheeky Monk. Lots of Belgian imports on tap plus a few hard to find American craft beers. Rackhouse Pub. They are attached to Stranahan's Distillery but have 20 taps, 19 of which are dedicated to Colorado breweries. Plus you can try...

Got my tickets to the Saturday member's only session and the Thursday night session. As a Colorado native and a Denver resident for 8 years I'm ashamed to say that this will be my first GABF. I know know, for shame! Anyway, for all you out of towners that are coming and looking to check out...

So I'm confused on the Member's only entrance, do you have to select the entrance when you purchase your tickets, or do you simply go to the member's entrance and flash them your member's card? In my frantic state I ended up going through TM's mobile site since people said that was working (I...

I've got a pale ale going right now with 1056, currently on day 5. At the high point the krausen was about 4 fingers thick, but this morning when I checked on it I'd say it was just under 2 fingers, but the top looked kind of like the photos posted above. It kind of looked like soapy water, I...

Brewing up an all Citra pale ale this weekend as part of a homebrew club experiment. Everyone's using the same recipe, but we all chose one different hop so we can compare the differences between different strains.

There it is! Thank you!

About a month or so ago I came across a website that showed a map of the USA and up at the top was a drop down box with some of the larger craft breweries that package and distribute their beers. You could select a certain brewery and based on that selection the states where they distribute...

Get a spray bottle full of water to knock down the foam and add FWH slowly. I made sure to do that after I had a boil over on my second batch. Being the noob that I was, I dumped the full bowl of FWH all at once only to be met with a viscous boil over. That sucked. Haven't had any since

So I've been saving the left over bottle caps from the various batches I've done since there's always been a few extra left over. I've been storing them in a plastic ziplock bag and probably have enough saved to where I don't need to buy extra for this next batch. Thing is when I took them out...

Good to know. I could've sworn I pulled a hydro sample after topping off and mixing because I remember taking my wine thief out, but from what you've posted it sounds like its pretty hard to get a 30 point swing by mistake. Thanks for the info, good stuff!

0.5 lbs Crystal 40L 0.25 lbs Munich I kept a pretty close eye on it after pitching and I didn't get any stratification like the pic that you posted. It was all one uniform color.

Here's what I did (to the best of my memory since I'm at the office and my notes are at home). Heated one gallon of water to 165 deg F. Added steeping grains, removed from heat, covered, and wrapped with towel. Stirred occasionally for 30 minutes, water read 150 deg F after steeping. Set...

Sure thing. Still an extract brewer, working my way towards partial mash. Fermentables: 6 lb Light LME 2 lb Munich LME Specialty Grains: 0.5 lb Crystal 40L 0.25 lb Biscuit Hops: 2 oz Styrian Goldings @ 60 0.5 oz Sterling @ 15 0.5 oz Sterling @ 2 Yeast: 3711 French Saison Like I mentioned...