Recent content by JauntyJames

Holy resurrected thread, Batman! I spent several minutes going "but there's no calendar blue moon until August! What are you on about?"

+5 Oatmeal Stout 35,330 ... I think. That last post was confusing

+5 english brown ale +5 cider +5 pumpkin spice ale +5 IPA +5 Bock =33463

It could just be that he doesn't like you. Not having met you, I have no idea why that might be the case, but your presence is a common thread in all your experiences with him. Now, that in and of itself is bad customer service; you treat any paying customer the same regardless of personal...

That's overly cynical. PR is not easy, and if he's not good at it that certainly doesn't make him a dickwad inherently. The personal response was a nice gesture, and he probably thought it would mean a lot to a fellow brewer, even though it was ultimately ill advised.

A gold cauldron might work, but a normal flat bottomed pot made of gold would probably buckle under the weight of five gallons of wort. Unless you made it quite thick, which increases the bling properties substantially.

Hey all, I'm from Rockville, MD and I've been brewing since August. I work in a bakery. I've been lurking around here a couple of weeks. Seems a nice place so I thought I'd say "hi."

I get 5 gallon buckets from work, since that's how our corn syrup comes. The lids are great, they have a hole in the top that fits a #8 stopper.