Recent content by tipsymonkey

I;m making a call out to all bay area CA brewers to meet and discuss and just hang out. Lets meet at the Rougue pub house in northbeach on the 4th of july (saturday july 2nd the actual date -- this is the edit) weeknd? (IS this a bad date? i never do anyting big but maybe others do)...

I haven't brewed anything in a month. And what's my excuse! Not enough time! how awful is that. stupid work / house work / obligations. Wish me luck. I got sunday booked off to just homebrew. all day. nothing can interrupt. I hope.

Right now i'm sitting in Kennedy's Irish pub in San Francisco. I love having a laptop and some wireless action. Sitting around on a sunday in a nice pub with a great selection of beer, and not too expensive. Anyone in San Francisco i would highly suggest Kennedy's. It is fun and chill and relax...

Last night I got the chance to go to the Rouge brewpub in SF. Got one of their 5.50 sampler sets and had 4-4 onz very good/interesting beers. Rogue Chipotle: Not my cup of tea. If you love chipotle peppers and the taste this might be for you. Chocolate Stout : yummy yummy yummy yummy wow...

No, the real problem with homebrew is that I'm running out and I don't have time until saturday to brew!!!

So i've brewed batches and never really named a beer. My friends come over and they always ask "what do you call it?" to which i reply with the most generic name ever - beer? stout? honey beer? Do any of you guys actually think up creative names for your creations? I was thinking that I was...

The San Francisco Beer festival is coming up in April. Check for more details. http://www.sfbeerfest.com/

I am actually planning on brewing this weekend but I'm stuck on trying to find soemthing to brew. I am deciding between a chocolate stout or a strawberry blonde type beer. The chocolate cause my girlfriend loves the chocolate beers, and strawberry because i was noticing that there were lots of...

Hi, Does anyone have a barleywine recipe they would like to share? I'd like to try my hand on brewing one. thanks,

I actually bottled the beer about 4 weeks ago, and they were sitting conditioning in the dark place that i put all my beer to condition. I just moved some of them from there to the fridge to drink. most of them will probably sit there for another week or 2 since i only move 6 into my fridge at a...

The fact that I didn't add enough extract might be it. I added enough for the recipe, but maybe not enough for my taste. Anyway, i'll dig up the recipe later on and double check it. And i'm one of the ones that doesn't take the gravity readings... but with this last experience, maybe i should.

So what are people's plans for St Patty's? Going to a fav bar? chilling at home? I'm heading off to murphy street in sunnyvale ca, they have about 4 irish pubs on that one block, so i think it should be fun.

My downtown brown clone has been brewed and done and has moved the magic place i call the fridge, where it gets ready for drinking. The thing is that i had one yesterday and noticed that it tasted watered down. I noticed this too when I moved it from the primary to the secondary (posted in the...

simpsons might be getting old, but its still funny. The problem with family guy is that there are no new ones. We have to wait until may to see new episodes of family guy, and then maybe, just maybe it will be better then simpsons. I doubt it though.

I just moved my batch from the primary to the secondary, and when i move it I took a smell and it was the first time that I've made a batch and seriously thought it had been contaminated. It didn't smell bad, but it didn't smell good either, so I moved it over and in the process got a bit in a...