Recent content by wuilliez

Ayinger Bavarian hefe-weizen. Awesome beer. Up on deck is Dechutes Hop Henge Experimental IPA.

Jubelale!

Flat tail Brewery Seriously Low Budget Series pumpkin saison. Pretty tasty.

2006 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. First Jeep ever, don't think I'll ever stray. SWMBO drives a 2007 Nissan Sentra sport. Needless to say hers is our road trip car.

Seafood eggs Benedict. Regular eggs Benedict with shrimp, salmon, and Dungeness crab over it. Sooooo good. That or a regular prime rib dip with grilled onions, cheese, and fresh au jus. It's a toss up.

The brewery in Newport (the actual brewery, not the bay front restaurant) is pretty good. It gives me a chance to try their beers that I normally wouldn't see in stores, and their samplers allow me to try their questionable beers without blowing 10 bucks on a bomber. The food was meh, much...

1) fine tune my brewing process. 2) keep consistent temps while fermenting. 3) don't sweat the small stuff. After the yeast are pitched, let the yeast do their thing. Either way ill get beer, and if it's less than awesome, there's always next time.

Look for Full Sail's Berliner Weisse. Pretty dang good, and over in Oregon it's 4 bucks a bomber at Safeway. Also, next summer, try to find Festina Peche from Dogfish Head. Also an amazing beer.

Pumpkin purée. While not too crazy, it was still bizarre to me seeing thick pumpkin goop in my mash.

I second the pilsner. I had the Mori Moto imperial pilsner at Rogue a while back, and it was just not good. Something that shouldn't be imperial or doubled, indeed. Also, can't say I've tried any Shandys as lemonade and beer together kinda scares me.

Lagunitas lucky 13 was terrible. It's a shame because I normally love most everything this brewery does. Another was Widmer's rotator IPA series spiced IPA. The spices in both were identical, and made me identically sick. Just not good.

I'd go with a blow off tube. Even if you could've gotten away with it, it really isn't worth the hassle of cleaning up krausen off your walls, floor, ceiling, everywhere. I do it for all of my beers for at least the first week of primary while fermentation is at its most aggressive.

It was like drinking liquid smoke. Was struggling through the whole thing. On a good note, it smelled amazing. Definitely a novelty beer, only to be tried once.

When you try, and fail, to convince your SWMBO how awesome it was getting a ton of grolsch bottles at a dollar/bottle.

Sierra Nevada Autumn Tumbler brown ale. Pretty dang good.