Recent content by dbeechum

Hey, as the club's unofficial historian I can help answer some of that. The Falcons have always been LA based since the founding. (The San Andreas Malts were the main Bay Area club and were founded just a little after the Falcons, but I think they're mostly defunct now with the San Francisco...

Thanks and I'd say unless you're in a hurry - wait. It'll get you there and I think the flavor is much better than any of the french strains

My guess is the starter was a little small. When you're at that strength with a cranky yeast strain, I'd go a little bigger 2-3 liters.

Well, that's disconcerting. Usually doesn't happen with my protocol. Two big q's - OG of your Avec clone and how much starter?

I would guess that the HBT rumor mill probably put the pressure on to drop a release.

And it's been fixed! Brew the beer - it's lovely!

Thanks for reminding me - I just emailed to get that corrected. *sigh*

Following up a little further - I'd have to dig into the data that was gathered by the third party, but that's not happened yet. From what I was lead to understand, data was collected from all the tiers in the industry - small mom & pop, large national retailers, online and the suppliers (e.g...

Quick word on methodology as I've had it explained to me - the decline figures are calculated both from survey responses and wholesaler responses which should hopefully smooth out some of the missed respondents and online sales pieces.

When I did it before I did it once with a 1/2 sheet cake from the grocery store which is usually something like 11"x15" or so. You could also, if you're a mad man go for a full sheet cake which is 18x24, which was the other time I did it.. When I did it with a 1/2 sheet, I just used my pasta...

No vagueness about the matter and it pre-dates AB-2609. The CA ABC issued a FAQ earlier this year to clarify the effect of last year's AB 1425. This is their opinion from how the whole of the Alcohol code is written and not effected by AB1425 or AB2609. To quote: Next year's legislative...

Don't fret the keg size. Make the soda and pop it in whatever keg you have. ! (And for the record, I've tried all the sodas and they were awesome.) :)

I think the real question is going to be: where's your gravity at? If your gravity is sufficiently low and the beer itself tastes clean (e.g. no diacetyl, etc) - then I would aggressively cold crash the beer in the low 30's. Sometimes some of these yeasts will keep a krausen up even...

Actually, I have no clue the sourcing of Saison III. I begged and cajoled and tried to wheedle it out of Neva when she gave me a vial of it for my NHC talk last year and no dice. She's tough. The yeast - is awesome. Out of all the strains we poured that day - it was number two. Number one was...

If you missed out on a ticket, i highly recommend signing up for the waiting list. There will be inevitable discussions at home that lead to ticket turnover. http://bit.ly/2012WaitList