Recent content by swampbrewcrew

If you will be travelling through Jackson, MS during your trip LD's Beer Run is worth a stop. It's a relatively small shop, but they carry a lot of local and regional breweries that may be hard to find outside of the area. Oxford and Starkville, MS should be relatively close to your route...

I see posts all the time about this brewery or another closing down, and I’ve always chalked it up to market saturation. My local brewery in Jackson, MS has announced its closing. Lucky Town Brewing didn’t get beat by competing local breweries because there aren’t any. They lost the retail space...

I used terra cotta flower planters. Lightbulb inside of the pot, and the base secured to the top of the pot. It blocked all of the light, and the terra cotta stayed warm for awhile after the light bulb cycled off.

That came out sounding crass, and I didn’t mean it too. Give that stuff a new home.

I’m the homebrew rep for Bayou and I almost want to buy the turkey burner for nostalgia. It’s been a hot minute since we sold those. SQ14 by the way, all of our square frames start with SQ. The SP14 caught my eye because it was real close but not right, and I thought I was chasing a knockoff...

You’re going to have fun with this. Just by reading along I can tell you’re a frugal person at the edge of a rabbit hole. If you can get over the small learning curve between drinkable beer and good beer, you seem like the kind of guy who patches together a $2k system for under $500.

If you have one of the Bayou brew kettles they sell a raised false bottom that will go over the elements.

Don’t drink heavily and brew is the lesson. I legit hopped 2 oz of centennial at 60 minutes on a Pilsner because I was looking at a recipe I wanted to brew later on. The timer went off, and I panicked because nothing was weighed out yet. Glanced at my phone and boom! Here’s a ton of IBUs to...

I screwed up the hop additions on a lager recently. It’s west coast ipa in IBUs with no malt to back it up. I’ve been pouring 12 ounces into a pint glass and topping it up with Coors lite. It’s absolutely delicious.

His level of detail is unmatched. Also lookup the reddit homebrewing group. The name escapes me, but there is a poster who does regular updates on meeting with traditional farmhouse brewers that are absolutely phenomenal. Nothing we can reproduce without their house yeast, but a good launching...

During Lent I do quit drinking in addition to a lot of heavy dieting. I’m not very religious, but my parents are. In my case it’s a good cleanse every year that helps keep the tolerance in check, and gives my parents and I something positive to work on every year. I generally drop a good 10-15...

I may not drink at all for a week, and I may brew a beer I really like and kill a keg in a week. It’s more a “what’s on tap?” than I wanna get drunk thing.

Rush shipping, and packed on ice? $25 doesn't sound out of line there. It's $30 to overnight an envelope.

Once at a football tailgate several years ago my wife mentioned how much I had been drinking. Me in my drunken state of mind quipped, “I’ve had a water after every beer! Look! I’ve almost drank a case of water”. Not my wisest move.

Just my .02, but I’ve heard the line “15 bones for 30 stones” since 2005. I’m sure we picked it up from people older than we were. In my entirely unprofessional opinion it comes down to the difference between Stone Brewery, and stone being shorthand for Keystone. I watched the video with the...