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The green egg is fantastic, one of those few items worth every dollar spent on it :) I will be cracking open some bottles this week sometime to get an idea of the finished product, it was bottled on the 13th so just want to give it the proper 2 weeks minimum to condition before I get into...

Well, Im waiting on a delayed flight so I have a few minutes to update a little bit on this thread. Here are some photos from start to finish of the entire process. We prepared a turkey brine as described in the first post, brined the turkey, smoked it over alder chips and finished it in the...

Sorry for the delay, I will post pictures and results as soon as possible, I have been traveling in Colorado for the past week and have a hectic Christmas schedule ahead... so it may be just a little while longer but I look forward to adding more soon.

So a quick update, I was finally home this evening and had a chance to check on the beers, I didn't have much time to spare so i skipped straight to the 3rd variation of the turkey beer (full turkey carcass). Ill talk more about this in the full version of the overall results but in short IT...

Hey All, Thank you for your interest in how it turned out, the brew day went well and we had a lot of fun. My brother in law, who has never brewed before, was with us and he ended up loving it so much he bought equipment the next day, another convert for the noble cause. Anyway, I took a lot of...

We have two other turkeys (one fried, one oven roasted) and a serrano ham from spain to keep us busy if this doesn't work out so no worries on that front. So I've given some of these comments a lot of thought and since this is an experiment I've decided to take a little more scientific...

paperairplane, thanks for your insight, i think the turkey concentrate is a great idea and Im going to give that some thought for sure. On that note what would you recommend as the best way to get the fat to separate? Would it work to create a broth concentrate, chill it and decant the liquid...

Thank you all for the comments, I am going to do my best to get as much of the fat content out as possible, my boss is a materials scientist and one of my best friends is a chemical engineer so we have some creative ideas for how to precipitate a lot of the fat out. Im thinking that doing...

Serious ... obviously not too much, I am after all putting a turkey in a beer, but thats the joy of homebrewing, this is not a pilot beer for production. If nothing else I get a delicious turkey out of it all, but its about the experimentation. I've brewed plenty of classic styles and award...

Thanks for the wiki reference, i may consider adding a par boil to the preparation of the turkey, that could help limit undesired flavor effects. Any helpful and insightful suggestions are more than welcome, thanks for checkin it out

Another interesting thought, New Belgium experimented with adding olive oil to the fermentor to provide sufficient UFA's for yeast fermentation in the absence of wort aeration. I wonder if the oleic acid content of the turkey may even enhance the overall performance of the yeast. Again, all's...

It will certainly be an adventure and may result in a total failure but Im hoping that the sterilization of the boil, acidity from hops, ph reduction in fermentation and yeast domination will reduce the bacterial activity on the compounds left from the turkey. I plan to whirlfloc a lot of the...

Schemy, If you want to try something really different for Thanksgiving check out my Turkey Beer post. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/most-thanksgiving-beer-ever-turkey-beer-444019/ Cheers,

Hello Open Minded Folk, This year for Thanksgiving I am planning to try something a little different, I want to brew the ultimate Thanksgiving beer (unsubstantiated statement but there for effect) and where better a place to start than with a big ol' turkey in the boil pot. The plan is to brew...

My best friend got married in may and he did a wheat beer and called it "cold feet wheat", got some labels printed online and served it at the reception and it was one of the most memorable occasions I've ever been a part of, note to the groom though, by the time we (the wedding party) were done...

I personally have not been able to visit the restaurant yet but their bock beers are great if you like a clean, proper beer that really demonstrates the beauty of a good malt bill. My personal favorite is the Maibock, it has just enough hop bitterness to clean the palate but really comes through...

To address your original question there are a lot of things you can do to move into the brewing industry, while every brewery is looking for a different kind of person, especially in the craft industry where personality is so important, many companies have a great need for individuals who are...