Recent content by SavageSteve

It's really a matter of the quality of the ingredients and the skill of the brewer, not simply extract vs. all grain. If an extract brewer uses quality fresh ingredients, then s/he can compete directly with an all grain brewer, unless the style uses specialty grains that are better off mashed...

When I was at the pub, I hacked into one of those pub electronic gaming machines. I inserted a "Savage Steve is the best" ad into the rotation of regular ads on the box. I then proceeded to drink a lot of beer. End story. - Steve

Best margarita evar, plus a pretty good Irish car bomb. Oh yeah, it's on! -steve

Hops rock! I'm a split brain, though... I'm a hophead and a malt maniac. I basically just love beer. DFH 60 is my current favorite hoppy beer. Hop whiffing is an addiction-- get used to it! - Steve

Oh. My. God. That is so not glamorous. I think she can lift more than me! *shudder* - Steve

Twelve. But not all at once. -Steve

Me (to myself): I really need to go to bed now. My brain: But you haven't been on HBT for months! You have so much to catch up on! Go ahead and click on your "new posts" bookmark. Me: My eyelids feel like iron curtains and my brain is all xyxxcnviunewaess. My brain: Wat? Me...

This was strictly an alcohol-only induced vision. Seriously. -Steve

Beermaking is magic. -Steve

Oh Lord, give me the strength to walk away from constantly checking new posts. Crap. I'm doing it again. -Steve

I'm having a Charlie Papazian moment tonight. Let me indulge myself for a moment. I'm drinking some very good homebrew (Ron's Belgian Blonde), breathing some fresh spring air mixed with some amazing incense, listening to some mind expanding Grateful Dead music, and thinking about how...

That sounds disgusting, and I'm not being elitist. Before you ferment Coca Cola, you should watch this video of someone who tried to make wine out of it: -Steve

54 looks like the Basic Brewing logo. I like 52 (ranked 3rd) best. -Steve

This reminds me of that trippy chapter in one of Papazian's books about wort blobs floating in space, each picking up a different yeast and becoming a different beer, or something like that. -Steve

How's this for getting a sense of scale? -Steve