Recent content by samuryan

can you show your chiller/pump setup? Also where did you source the heater cores? I have a mini fridge freezer that i am thinking of going this route just to keep the fridge still usable for beverages, hop and yeast storage.

you can sterilize, but risk burning your flavor off/adding smoke to your cocktail. I would use the barrel as is with wine flavor in mind for your cocktail. All of my barrel projects effect the next (in a good way). *Disclaimer- smell/inspect your barrel . . .if it is good, use it

if you didn't have anything to worry about what would you think about all day? . . . . . .. . .oh yeah, beer. inb4 "boobs"

had a fruit fly swarm in my house the past week! North lake tahoe. Unbelievable, seem to be thinning by the day though

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^agree with "always share" however, there is always an extenuating circumstance

what's the difference between disconnecting them and taking them out and disconnecting and leaving them in? If they won't pour your beer is safe . . . who's going to lift the top of your keezer?

bev line from birdman with proper fittings, if i had to do it over . . .

Stirred up the yeast? was it cloudy on the second taste? Yeast will definitely affect taste

I've brewed plenty that I've drank, plenty that need work/something is not quite right, plenty that fall into that "free beer, COOL!" catagory, but you NOTICE when it disappears quickly. I'm sure we are all our own worst critic.

Don't have to pull the perlicks apart as often to clean. Worth it IMO

I always naturally carb/condition for 3 weeks, then jumper to a new keg without moving from where it was carb/conditioning. Very easy and once chilled has very little sediment.

As a bar manager I've always said "the only problem with blue moon is that it sells". I live and work in an area where i can easily get exceptional craft beers, but at the end of the day i gotta go with the numbers. Blue moon has done a very good job introducing people to a style outside of...

I never get grass with dry hopped keg in fridge, but at room temp anything over 5 days starts to take on fresh cut grass flavors, and not the good kind

Dry hop no more than 5 days. I get grass when leaving it much longer