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Hey guys, Has anyone ever built a beer garden table? I'm trying figure out that best way to make a traditional Bavarian table. 10' long by 2' wide. We want to make them out of wood and with the accompanying bench. In germany these tables have fold up legs but I was thinking of just making...

I just decommissioned a 7bbl Hops brewery in Connecticut and have a big neon sign for sale. It has a 7" crack in the plastic but its still in great condition. If I could get it to Denver I would. The sign is about 4' by 3'. On a side note check out http://www.facebook.com/DenverBeerCompany...

A few weekends ago I had the opportunity to brew in the GABF ProAm competition. I got lucky and won the Dred Hop Homebrew competition and the Mt. Sun Pub and Brewery in Boulder, CO chose my IPA to brew for the GABF ProAM competition. I showed up at 7:30 am and ready to mash in with the head...

Its been 3 days fermenting at 65-67...what experience do people have fermenting this yeast a little warm? If it throws fruitiness I'm ok with that but I hope not to get any fusel alcohol flavors. Does anyone have experience with this yeast?

I received the e-mail from the Colorado Brewers Guild describing why we should appose craft beer. I think the Brewers Guild e-mail has some good points but I added a few additional reasons why I think we should appose HB1186! So while you're surfing homebrewtalk at work tomorrow shoot an email...

http://www.dailycandy.com/new-york/video/77987/Whats-All-the-Brew-Ha-Ha a lot of work for 1 gallon but seems like a good idea for NYC...

I'm teaching this week's class about amber and dark lagers tomorrow night at our BJCP study group. I'm going to go buy a bunch of the recommend beers and we'll taste those. Any advice from those that have studied for the BJCP or taken the test? Any of those beers end up on your test? Any...

Just found a cheap ticket kayak.com and I booked it to Oktoberfest leaving 9/22. I'm going with my girlfriend we plan on going to Munich for Wed, Thur, and Friday morning and then seeing some other parts of southern Germany. We are going to rent a car for 4 days and are thinking spend Friday...

Why to yeast stop when they do? I had a beer that went from 1.048 to 1.012 and tasted a bit sweet. I wanted to get it down lower and be nice and dry. I used the Belgium yeast and it sat in the secondary for 3+ weeks. This baby did not want to ferment anymore and the Belgium yeast was done...

I'm in Colorado - can I drop off 4 beers for nationals at Oskar Blues or should I just drop off 1 and then if I advance send the additional 3 to California. If I drop off 4 tonight will the other 3 end up in the right place for the second round? 1 is required for 1st round then 3 for second...

Got an early Christmas present from the GF... She took one of my favorite pictures from our Gates of Ladore rafting trip and had it put on a tap handle. She also grabbed the name of the photo, which will turn into the name of my house beer, once i get a good consistent recipe. Will...

Does anyone in Denver add anything to thier water? I don't add anything and have never measured by pH. Should I? Does anyone else in Denver need to add anything to their water to get a proper pH? What is denver water like? Thanks!

I want to brew a good pilsner. I went to Bull & Bush brew pub in Denver this weekend and loved their pilsner. It was light colored, almost BMC in color, but had a ton of flavor. I've never really had a good pilsner before this. I also want to experiment with doing a decoction mash. My...

I'm about to start the mash of: 9# MO 1# Munich .75# Crystal 40 .25# Dextrine I have 4 oz leaf Chinook - unknown AA - maybe 10% .5? homegrown Centennial - maybe not too good 1 oz Ahtanum 4.5% 1 oz cascade 5.4% I'm thinking: 1 oz Chinook at 60 1 oz Cascade at 20 1 oz Chinook + home grown...

I had a little too much sparged wort that wouldn't fit in my brew pot. So I just put it in a growler....and let it sit...and sit. Its been 2 weeks now and that stuff is nasty. It fermented and is most definitely sour - every time I unscrew the growler top a bit to release the pressure i get a...

I usually mash in the kitchen then bring my wort outside for the boil. In the mean time my sparged wort usually cools a bit from the mash out temp. Here is what i do now 1. single infusion Mash at about 152. (60min) 2. add 1 gallon of boiling water temp to ~159 (10min) 3. sparge...

How does this look. I'm going to buy the stuff in 35 min. 10 gallon batch 20# Maris Otter 1.5# Chocolate 1#Black 1# Crystal 50L maybe 4 oz. Roasted .4 oz Amarillo and .4 oz Centennial at 60min 1 oz Fuggle at 15 min American Ale yeast

My chest freezer has 2 full kegs in it and my house is hitting high 80s during the day. So i might as well ferment a lager in the chest freezer, the only place in the house, where the temps are nice and cool. Who has a good recipe for my 3rd all grain? Something easy to drink on a nice hot...

http://picasaweb.google.com/prcrawford/Beer/photo#5210694943690048610.jpg I'm trying to learn Matlab so i was playing around with some simple graphing. Thought you might enjoy this. This is a graph of the IBU level as a function of time in a boil. I picked 1oz, AA%=8.3, Gravity of...

I moved into my new apartment last weekend and long behold, a turkey fryer awaited me in the basement. Yeah for free stuff! So i went to home depot last night and built myself a 10 gallon mash tun from the beverage cooler. So tomorrow i want to break all this good stuff in. Right now I...