Recent content by seefish

IMO if you don't like a company based on it's business practice you shouldn't consume their product. However, I have a total disdain of the word "craft" in that it has no real definition. I can understand how it has a place in legal terms but it is not a parameter I consider when choosing a beer.

Seems like this thread or one exactly like it gets started again every 6 months.

My insurance policy doesn't allow pit bulls...although disappointed I don't take that as them being forbidden, only that they are not covered under the policy and therefore at your own risk. Is that wrong?

Don't know what the big deal is...NB got sold to big money a couple years ago. People just starting to notice now because it is the big bad wolf AB-Inbev. NB lost their soul to me when Chip, Keeler, and Dawson got pushed out with the last buyout.

No, I don't think that it is. They had a massive barrel expansion, props to them for not pasteurizing.

I definitely wouldn't say that it is "uncouth", but there may be better options if you are going just for color. Brown sugar will add to your OG and help dry the beer out. It will certainly impart a differant flavor than if you added crystal malt or some other dark malt.

The benefit to doing a tincture is that you can add as much as you need to taste. Just take a measured amount of pre-bottled beer and use a dropper until you hit the desired taste. You can then scale up to your batch size.

Edit, didn't read the OP fully. Totally agree, secondaries are dumb...I would just wait to the fermentation died down.

They would have to hire a 4th frog.

I don't think the gelatin knows if you cooled the water after boiling. I'm guessing those people added it too hot. I thought the point of heating it to 150 is only to dissolve the gelatin.

This goes without saying for any entrepreneurial venture.

If the compressor runs and it doesn't get cold then it sounds like you are out of refrigerant.

Not saying there aren't other breweries that have been very kind about sharing recipes but nobody has done this...no other brewery has taken the time to prepare a catalog of over 200 beers for homebrewing. Very Nice.

I've doughed in without milling before...you'd think that realization would have happened as I was doing it and not half way through the mash lol.

Then you drink the beer and make pee, which costs 2.5 gallons/flush. So say 20 glasses of finished beer/batch, which would make you pee like 10 times. So you likely waste more water drinking it than making it.