Recent content by robegero

SNAFU is the local club and I think it is the only club in Southern Nevada. http://www.snafubrew.com/ I have been to several meetings but having 3 young kids makes attending on a regular basis very difficult for me. They seem pretty active and were the Gambrinus Club Award winner at the...

This is a good post on the craft scene: http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/visiting-vegas-next-week.500/ I live in Henderson and U Bottle It, http://www.facebook.com/UBottleIt, is an great new home brew shop, check it out if you will be in the south end of town.

For about 2.5 gallons first taste is chocolate roast flavors of the stout then it finishes like you pop some Altoids in your mouth with a hint of the roast flavors. After 6 months the mint flavor mellowed out and was a lot more balanced and the combination really worked well, almost had the...

I was doing various flavorings with one batch so I split the beer and did it in a secondary. I also dissolved them in vodka first. I was going for a lot of mint flavor so used the whole tin, but you can easily split them up for how much you want.

Try Altoids worked really well for me

I just called pressed 3 and she said "hang up" after a long pause they said they were all gone.

If I win a cleaner my kids will always want to clean up "daddies beer stuff" because it will be fun now!

I made one by dissolving Altoids in vodka. It turned out great!

I sure hope I win!

Mine was leaking gas right out of the package. I took off the o-ring put some plumbers tape on the post where the o-ring goes and put some keg lube on the o-ring and plopped it on top of the plumbers tape. It made the o-ring stick out just a little bit more and now there seems to be a leak free...

Check out this episode of basic brewing November 26, 2009 - Pumpkin Beer Experiment it tests if people can tell the difference between a beer that used pumpkin and one that did not.

Try hibiscus, it is used in an Austin Homebrew Supply kit: http://www.austinhomebrew.com/product_info.php?products_id=11267

Safale s-04 is a great yeast, I would just use that and save some money.

Use hibiscus without a doubt. I make a tea with it and always get jokes about drinking blood. I have seen a hibiscus saison recipe floating around.

Get the LOVE TSS2-2100, I just built my chamber and it is dual control so handles both the freezer and the heater with the same unit. I followed these instructions and the build was simple: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/temperature-controller-box-portable-solution-128443/ Also it is $69...