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Just opened the first bottle. Cherry plums can make good wine; it has an almost apple like quality to it. My grandfather from Romania used to make plum wine, so this was an exciting one to finally try.

As I've stated in Introductions, I've been away from brewing for the last 5 years, living in the Middle East, and I am finally returning to the US next month. Mission number 1 will be to brew a lot of beer to make up for lost time. I've noticed that there are a lot of new hops out there with...

Greetings, similar to recent poster @timmay1966, I have spent the last 5 years of my life in Qatar and, sadly, most of those years have been spent away from good beer and homebrewing (I say most because I've gotten to travel quite a bit). I've been a longtime member and supporter of this site...

So, I live in the Middle East and can't really brew for fear of deportation or jail and, thus, I haven't been active (barring one sad drunken night of posting a "miss you guys" post somewhere on here) on HBT in quite a while. I do, however, get to travel a ****load and it struck me in Belgium...

First, I'll start out by saying that I am already well aware of how jury rigged this conversion and setup are. However, I set out to build my kegerator with what I had around me and a little ingenuity and I feel like I've accomplished that. I'm posting this because I've had a few people...

http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2011/01/20/7-abandoned-breweries-open-for-exploration/ I found this article posted on BoingBoing.net about 7 abandoned breweries around the world that have been "successfully spelunked". The photos are really cool. For the inner architectural anthropologist in...

Sorry about the cell phone picture. Went to Binny's on a mission to get Tactical Nuclear Penguin or Sink the Bismarck, then I realized I wasn't going to spend 100+ on one beer. Whats funny is that the wine was the cheapest thing I bought. :mug:

Since moving to Chicago three years ago I have one bottle of beer left from each batch, including the ones I've kegged, except for the first batch I did which was lost from an accident involving my refrigerator's subtle vibrations, time and gravity. I have no idea when, why or how I should...

Was anyone else in the Chicago area at the Craft Beer "Bodega"? As soon as I walked in I wanted to leave, at first. It was so full of yuppies I could barely stand it. I woudn't consider myself prejudice, but to overhear comments like "which one is like Bud Light", etc. was a lot to over...

I have a pretty big question to ask pertaining to a possibly life altering decision I will be making in the next year or so and I thought, seeing as people from all walks of life and different ages are on HBT, I'd ask it here first. I went to OU and got a Communications Degree (Video...

A few weeks ago I had a bad day/week/month/year(s) at work and went to Binny's to drown my sorrows in some good beer...

Not sure if anyone has posted about this yet or if anyone has seen this yet, but over on Northern Brewer's Blog they have an article about how Hunter Thompson actually used to brew. Hunter S. Thompson on Homebrewing I knew that he was friends with the guys at Flying Dog and his...

A couple quick images of whats in my keg, the Blackened Crown Oatmeal Stout.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/07/heineken-bot-does-what-it-says-on-the-keg-soon-to-be-mans-new/ The consolation for it being a Heineken keg is that you can replace it with your own 5L of homebrew...

I just recently rediscovered this show on Hulu after watching Three Sheets for millionth time. I started with the Chicago episode and, being someone who lives here in Chicago, thought it was quite comical that Randy Mosher, author of Radical Brewing, chose Cleveland and Indiana beers as good...

The 3 of us (+ Jimbo's SWMBO) got together to brew Jimbo's German Pale Ale last Saturday. A partial mash First runnings Myself and our friend Tom

So the band I'm in released an album last fall and we've begun touring around the midwest on weekends. I figured we should have some stuff up on Youtube so I threw this together over the course of about 2 weeks. To be honest it would be cool to get a few objective opinions about this video...

Or did my post count shrink. I could have sworn I had more than 1,000 posts a few months ago. Its been a couple months since I've been active on HBT, so I could have lost too many brain cells...:drunk:

I'm sitting here at work, catching up on "Basic Brewing" videos and I've realized that for the first time in about 3 years I have no idea what to brew next. About a year ago I compiled a list of about 10 beers to make and the last one, an Oatmeal Stout, is sitting in the secondary waiting to...

Jimbo and I helped my friend Tom buy his first setup/brew his first batch this weekend. Good times... Enjoying my IPA... Forgot to crush at the HBS, used a blender... Tongs?