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• Posted in thread: IPA Off Flavor on 06-25-2009 at 03:22 PM
  what kind of sanitizer and cleaner do you use? if you use oxyclean and either use too much per
  gallon of water and/or dont rinse it well enough (no slippery residue) you will get that
  taste.also if yo...

• Posted in thread: Visiting New England soon. Where to go for beer? on 06-25-2009 at 03:11 PM
  North Conway, NH - Tuckermans Boston - Publickhouse and Sunset if you can make it out to
  western NY you will have a much better beer drinking time.

• Posted in thread: Trippel IPA on 06-23-2009 at 09:00 PM
  the la chouffe is the best one brewed as a belgian and the le freak is the best that is brewed
  as an american ale at least in my opinion.

• Posted in thread: floating hopsacks on 06-17-2009 at 09:00 PM
  i dont use hopsacks, i just dump the hops in. if you have a false bottom or bazooka screen in
  you boil kettle it wont matter at all. if you dont then try this. take your hopsack and while
  you are syph...

• Posted in thread: Holy crapper but that S-04 works fast... on 06-17-2009 at 08:56 PM
  i love the safale yeasts, they are like lightening in a condom wrapper.

• Posted in thread: Do all autosiphons "suck"? on 06-17-2009 at 08:54 PM
  if you are talking about the stopper at the tip, it is oblong and when you put it back on you
  need to attach the narrow end to the two clips on the tip of the syphon. the same thing
  happened to me and...

• Posted in thread: Boulder, Co bars on 06-15-2009 at 04:29 PM
  thanks for the responses. unfortunately ill be hoofing it the whole time im there so my forays
  out of town will be difficult. i pretty much suspected that the pearl st area the hill would be
  where mos...

• Posted in thread: Ale Yeast Recommendation on 06-12-2009 at 08:13 PM
  Safale SA-05 is cheap and quick, I like the wyeast ale strains but in all honesty I like the 05
  is probably the best yeast ive used and did i mention its ultra cheap. pretty much my go to
  yeast for an...

• Posted in thread: Boulder, Co bars on 06-12-2009 at 07:32 PM
  Im heading to Boulder in a few weeks and Im looking for some locals advice on some choice bars.
  Im going to hit some of the breweries in town but im looking for more. any help would be
  appreciated. P....

• Posted in thread: dry hopping.... on 05-29-2009 at 06:51 PM
  Its primarily an aroma thing, so if you want your beer to smell a bit better, and because of
  that taste a small bit better, than do it. On IPA's i usually do two separate dry hops after
  about 5 days o...