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Altbiers have been my passion. its what I have primary brewed since the beginning. out of my last 100 brews probably 50 of them have been altbier variations. When I say altbier to people they look at you sideways. I say to the East coast people a commercial example is Long Trail and to the WC...

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Excelsior Altbier. I have brewed 19 kits from Midwest and while I have not been disappointed with any of them the Altbier was my by-far chuck it down my throat as fast as I can favorite. It was so inspiring that is the only kit that I looked at all the ingredients and had them assembled at my...

I submit my Papal Porter and Old Wookie

Thanks for all the input. I concede it wasn't very well thought out. I generally brew smaller beers so when I was brewing one of my bigger beers to date and she had the baby I thought I would recognize that. I shall consider an "accelerated" drinking schedule in that case.

I brewed a 5g batch of German bock on the eve of the birth of a friends Daughter. While I normally keg everything I want to bottle this batch and open them over a period of years? on her birthdays. How long can I expect a german bock at 6.5% to continue to be drinkable before the quality starts...

Highlander

You walk in your office at work and wonder why there are cornies in there and immediately realize its the coffee pumper pots. I did this twice already this morning though.

I am looking at the keggles, but I can't get over how beautiful your bench is. Did you make that? Nice craftsmanship! Cheers, M

I am a fan of firearms and the "FirearmsTalk" banner is displayed above my HBT screen too. I'v never been on it. And while I would normally be just fine with that, I think I too would be a little concerned about flashing anything firearms in a less than gun centric culture such as mine. Just...

I built this one and I used the 4" shanks and drilled them so they come out exactly in between the ceiling of the fridge and the top of the cornies rubber handle. Still if you turn the cornies just so, it will hit the shank, so I have the cornies turned so the beer line nipple goes over the...

Welcome Jerry I am up here in Bar harbor. I am on my 6th batch since August. I am just about to start making partial mashes myself. I want to get to a local home brew store sometime, the closes't to me being Bangor. I just read in the BDN today that they had a contest! Wish I had known about...

Yea! I finally got my Ward report which better reflects numbers I can use in all the great brewing calculators. pH 7.8 Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) Est, ppm 127 Electrical Conductivity, mmho/cm 0.21 Cations / Anions, me/L 2.1 / 1.9 ppm Sodium, Na 26 Potassium, K 1 Calcium, Ca 12 Magnesium, Mg...

Thanks for all the help. Hmmm, well I guess I will have to find an alternative to disposing of it then; chicken food? I will get to making my own beer recipes soon, summer is so busy already, perhaps this winter. In the meantime I am getting my feet under me with trying the different kits...

Here's the thing; I am enjoying making lots of kit recipes, about a dozen so far. They are easy, work well for me, and I am getting good results. I jumped right in with a kegorator and a half dozen corny kegs to start. Everything is great but as I am kegging I am only using half of the 5oz of...