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I purchased from these guys years ago. http://www.acumetalfab.com/draft-beer-tower-products.html the products they carry are top notch.

I've played with a couple of wine fermented beers before. Check this out http://www.lewybrewing.com/2012/12/wine-yeast-in-beer-experiment.html and go and listen to the Shay Comfort Brewing Network Session, Lots of information there.

@2 months you should be fine. I've never noticed any foam or a traditional active fermentation when adding a secondary yeast besides a pelicle of some sort

Hey that top link is mine. Any questions you have?

My simple gelatin process is: -Pint of room temp water -add gelatin -heat to 140 or so (remember it will continue to warm in the pot, don't go over 155ish) -dump into cold finished (un carb'ed) beer -prime as normal The only thing it doesn't like it being moved after the yeast trub settles...

For the people who were at NHC in Philly, everything was Northern Brewer/Midwest. The room keys where split 1/2 and 1/2. All the banners that had Northern Brewer also had Midwest on them. They have the same "delete" function if you want to stop the spam, so I would guess they are somehow...

Start looking at some Saison recipes. The Saaz and the pilsner malt will work great together

ohhh check out http://www.westcoastersd.com/ They are the local paper, they have brewery maps etc.

Well, if money isn't an issue you are going to have a great time. Taxi would be over 100.00 each way to Stone. Coronado Brewing doesn't have tours but it is a brewpub and they brew behind the bar, so you see everything. It should be your daily lunch stop since you are in Coronado. Since you...

Firmly agree.

A lot of questions. For a tour of Stone you need to go to the Escondido location. It is 45 mins north of SD downtown. Beautiful place. Pizza Port and Alpine have some of the best beers in San Diego hands down. Most people here arent big fans of Ballast Point or Green Flash but they are...

I've lived in San Diego all my life. I agree on Hodad's and el indio. The other ones, I've never been to and have to desire to visit. There not places the locals go to, so I'm sure they are good, just not great. I'm sure you know the normal brewery list. Alpine, Societe, Hess, Alesmith...

Well it looks like I had 3 go to the mini-BOS in San Diego and one advance with a Second place awarded. If they filled the sheets out correctly, which San Diego has been very good about traditionally.

The 2 bottles might start making the competition have more cases like you describe. With homebrewed bottles all varying in consistency to some extent. It would be really frustrating would be to score a 40+ and advance to the mini BOS and have a bad bottle. That could explain the reverse of...

At least it is something.