Recent content by jbraas

I actually am from the Lancaster PA area and recently moved to TN. The last time I was at the Ren Faire at Mt. Hope they were brewing their own. We were actually there on their Ocktoberfest weekend and the had a talk by the brewer. It was true then that they only brewer for the Faire...

Still trying to come up with one for my brewery. Had a couple ideas, but have not settled on anything yet. One would be something like Wild Weasel Brewing. Once in college I came back from a heavynight of drinking. My dorm mate at the time had stayed in that night, and when he came back he...

I lean toward the technically inept side... any step by step directions for this type of project? I think your finished one looks great, and would like to do something similar at some point.

I'll chime in as another historical fan... either non-fiction of fictional novel. I recently finished "Sarum" by Edward Rutherford. Pretty good.. really long. Dals with the history of England literally from the start to modern times, revolving around on specific region. Then I finally read...

very nice, thanks for the continued feedback on this!

if you are in an area where you can get refills instead of exchanging and you have a Costco, i have seen some good prices there.

Not sure if this is the best place to post this. What is a good program to use for creating a decent label / hombrewery logo? Simple is good (no graphics experience) and cheap (or free) is great. Thanks!

with your "re-vamped" recipe do you still do the spice tea? If so do you just place the pie spice in something like a hop bag to steep? also the spices that you use in the recipe -- do you grind / crush / etc yourself or go with a nice pre-ground variety? is that fresh ginger? whew, sorry...

so you put the pumpkin in the boil? i did one last year using fresh pumpkin that was in the oven a little with some pie spice on it and additonal spices in the boil. i swear i remember putting that pumpkin in the mash, but it took lowsy (aka no) notes on that. I will do better this year. I...

hey boldone, I met a couple of you guys already (Antioch S .S. ). look forward to meeting more!

Hello everyone! I am a recent (7 months) transplant to the Nashville, TN area. I have brewing, for teh most part since around 1999 when my wife bought my first extract brewing set up. I did have an interuption of very little brewing in there for awhile, so don't have the experience I might...