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First year grower, harvested my Cascades on Sunday. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049419&id=1137835436&l=04fa0cf895

Two great covers in one video "Wolf Like Me" by TV on the Radio and "Toxic" by Britney Spears, performed by the best band in Chicago: Local H YouTube - Local H- Wolf Like Me / Toxic (Live)

I brewed an oatmeal stout yesterday and would like a creamier mouthfeel. How much lactose would be appropriate to add and would it be better to add at bottling or when it gets moved to secondary??

+1 on the in heat wheat

the surger is not "carbonating" the beer, it is releasing the air in the beer to create the famous guinness head...I work for a distributor of guinness (among other imports) in NW Indiana and we dont sell them in great volume, I believe they are mostly for bars who don't want the trouble of...

Has anyone had Sam Smith's Organic Ale?? and more importantly can anyone direct me to a style that would produce a similar ale? I'm not so much worried about the organic part, just mostly what style of ale it is.

Hefe's are better when you drink them young. what was your fermentation temps?? i'm pretty new but the temp can play a lot into the esters your yeast produced

you'll have to use beer gas (more nitrogen specifically) instead of co2 to get anywhere close to guinness and i've also read somewhere, possibly on this board, that they use a little of their old sour beer in their new batches.....although that has nothing to do with carbonation...just a side...

so....what are your opinions on these two suppliers?? specifically their recipe kits.

i never got any response on the re-vamped logo with color so just a bump to see what you all think

that would be quite a feat to emulate a draft guinness.....I've always found the bottles and cans quite inferior to a nice draft....Aren't the bottles and cans pasturized and kegs are not???? it would seem that's a big part of the difference

ok, now another stupid newbie question.....can somebody give me a "starters for dummies" lesson?? thanks a bunch

i'm kinda confused as to which yeast products need starters....I ordered two ingredient kits from MW (hank's hefe and cologne kolsch) with wyeast "smack packs"...do i need starters for "smack packs"?? thanks

I'm in Northwest Indiana, my distributor distributes to the 7 counties here in the very northwest corner