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03-02-2009

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ABOUT ME

General Interests: Homebrewing,archery elk hunting,downhill skiing,fly fishing/tying,bread making
Occupation: Program Manager
Real Name: Bill F
Favorite Music: Alternative Rock
Favorite Movies: Action/Adventure; 70s Clint Eastwood
Favorite Television Shows: The Office, The Big Bang Theory, HIMYM, Parenthood
Favorite Books: How to BrewrnThe Joy of Homebrewing
Clubs and Associations: South Sound Suds Society
Home Brewing Biography: Started in college by ordering a kit from Rolling Stone. By the time my friend and I built the nerve to try the first batch, we were legal. My first batch was a Nut Brown Ale that got a bacterial infection and tasted terrible, but I drank both cases anyway.
Future Brews: Dopplebock, Weisbock, Marzen, Saison
Primary: Two versions of Hopworks Urban Brewery's Abominable (2009 and 2012)
Secondary: A friend's Mac & Jack African Amber clone
Bottled: Community Garden wet hop pale ale
Kegged: Smoky Eatcher Breakfast Oatmeal StoutrnImperial Purple AmberrnHoptopus Imperial IPA
Gender: Male
Status: Married

City: Rainier

State/Province: Washington

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: HomeBrewTalk 2013 Big Giveaway! on 02-16-2013 at 09:35 PM
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Posted in thread: Brutus 10 Plans on 12-29-2012 at 01:29 AM
I'm pricing out the components and stumbling over (ok, 'choking on' is probably more accurate)
the price of the SS 1/2" ASCO valves Lonnie used. A couple questions:>First, besides e-Bay,
does anyone h...
Posted in thread: Need help coming up with Abominable Clone on 12-16-2012 at 07:42 PM
HUB's 2012 bottles (and apparently cans, too) say they use Cascade, Centennial, and Chinook to
achieve 70 IBU (vs 55 in 2009) plus six organic malts. They make no mention of which malts,
giving only a...
Posted in thread: Need help coming up with Abominable Clone on 11-01-2012 at 05:14 PM
ltd,Have you made progress with this clone? What adjustments have you made?Thanks,Bill
Posted in thread: Kona Brewing Koko Brown Ale on 01-10-2012 at 02:25 AM
I just had this beer over the weekend. Man was it good. After reading through this whole thread
i'm wondering if adding .5 lb of toasted coconut to the mash and 1 lb to the last 15 min of the
boil wou...
Posted in thread: Kona Brewing Koko Brown Ale on 12-12-2011 at 02:03 PM
How are everyone's experiments turning out? Any more tasting notes? Change suggestions?
Posted in thread: Warning signs of homebrew addiction on 09-22-2011 at 05:32 PM
Guilty for alot of these.. especially wasting most of a day at work doing brewing research.
Also, I took last Friday off to brew.. it was a great day! If you own more refrigerators or
freezers for bee...
Posted in thread: Kona Brewing Koko Brown Ale on 09-19-2011 at 11:23 PM
What a great thread. We've been working on our own Coco Brown for a couple batches now and I
think we've done a great job getting that liquid mounds bar beer. The story about the beer is
here: few s...
Posted in thread: Kona Brewing Koko Brown Ale on 09-14-2011 at 11:47 PM
I took our three batches to our homebrew club meeting last night. Those that tried it liked
Batch 2 (coconut in the boil) method the best.
Posted in thread: Kona Brewing Koko Brown Ale on 09-01-2011 at 11:07 PM
I made contact with Hale's Brewery in Seattle. They brew a coconut porter. The brewer said they
toast the same way I did, but they put all the coconut in secondary. They recommend aging until
the coco...