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So I finally decided to enter one of my beers in competition earlier this summer since the Tennessee State Fair was hosting nearby. I had an american amber kegged up which wasn't bad at all--mashed too low so a tiny bit thin but flavorful and clean. Scores were finally posted (no judges...

Hey all, I have seen and heard plenty of people speak out against drinking and brewing. They all say that you end up with crappy beer and a poor process. I'm here to say that you can indeed brew great beer while enjoying your efforts at the same time! I brew all grain with my...

Thought I would share a little story for ****s and giggles.... I brewed an all grain belgian trippel a few months ago. I ended up with a little bit too much volume but what I could fit in the keg turned out really well. I had about 3/4-1 gallon of beer left in my plastic bucket after I...

Hey all, I posted this a week or so ago in all grain and didn't get any replies so I'm going to give it a try in here :) I'm planning on brewing an imperial cherrywood smoked saison (shooting for something like matt's burning rosids from stone). This is a 10.5% beer so i'll be mashing...

Hey all, I'm planning on brewing an imperial cherrywood smoked saison (shooting for something like matt's burning rosids from stone) this weekend. This is a 10.5% beer so i'll be mashing 10# pils, 3# cherrywood smoked malt, 2# wheat, and 1# munich (adding 2lb sugar later on to get the rest...

Hi all, I live in Memphis and was fortunate enough to just try Wiseacre brewing's Ananda IPA. I'm not usually a big fan of IPAs but this was one one the best friggin beers that I have ever tried. They list a lot of the recipe details on their website (it is a wheat IPA) but I wasn't quite...

Hey all, So I brewed up a AG pumpkin ale about 3 weeks ago and just got it pretty decently carbed up in the keg. Good god it is a friggin clove bomb. I haven't brewed too much with spices and haven't ever had this kind of problem. The beer is still relatively young; how much can I expect...

Hi all, I made a belgian tripel (she devil recipe on beersmith) about 4 weeks ago and just transferred it over to the keg this afternoon (pitched 68F and held there for 1 week then allowed to do whatever it wanted at room temp which meant slowly swinging in the area of 67-71 over the next 3...

So I was checking out my water report recently and was a little disappointed that almost all of the relevant brewing elements were left off of the quality report (everything except for Na+ and Ca2+). I finally called the water department today and left a message for the guy who is in charge of...

So I haven't actually tried arrogant bastard ale before and I thought I would give it a shot tonight. Long(ish) story short I go to the bottle shop and the only stuff they have had a best by date of 7/10/13. I get a bottle for $2 because they were out of date (and really, can you turn down...

Hey all, I finally got a grain mill because my efficiency from LHBS crush was ~65%. I'm currently mashing/lautering a pumpkin ale and am pretty sure between the canned pumpkin and (perhaps) too fine a crush, my latuering is going slowwwwwwwww (I'm batch sparging). I've tried dumping my mash...

So I've been meaning to post about this for a while but am just getting around to it... A few years ago I was out with some friends at some college bar. I didn't feel like a BMC and I hadn't ever tried sam adams summer ale before so I gave it a shot (the one token 'craft' beer that they had...

So I stumbled on this paper earlier today while doing some literature review at work (unfortunately not for anything beer related). Effects of brewer's yeast cell wall on constipation and defecation in experimentally constipated rats. (Lino et al., 2001) In a nut shell they gave rats a...

Hey all, per the title just a quick question for anyone who has worked with the GE 7.0 cu.ft freezer. Having the lock plate on is making it difficult to fit the freezer into the surround I am building and I wanted to ask before I go hitting it with a hammer or a crowbar and breaking plastic...

Hey everyone, after lurking around here for the past 2 years I finally gave in and started up an account (well a month or so ago). I figured that it was proably past time that I put a quick post up here saying hi to everyone. I started brewing about 3 years ago but let my hobby lapse a...

Hey guys, after bottling for the past few years and lurking around about 100 different keezer build threads I decided to take the plunge (and hopefully pass on some of the entertainment these threads can provide). First of all, I want to warn everyone that before this I have had about 2 hours...