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I'm having a Charlie Papazian moment tonight. Let me indulge myself for a moment. I'm drinking some very good homebrew (Ron's Belgian Blonde), breathing some fresh spring air mixed with some amazing incense, listening to some mind expanding Grateful Dead music, and thinking about how...

Adapted from Ron Jeffries' recipe in Brew Like a Monk, pg. 229. Ingredients Fermentables - 4.5 lb. Dingemans Pilsener Malt (40%) - 5.8 lb. Wheat Liquid Malt Extract (51.2%) (William's Brewing German Weizenmalt, 60% wheat, 40% pilsener) - 1.0 lb. Corn Sugar (8.8%) Hops - 1.1 oz...

I just drank two half liter glasses of my recent APA, and I now realize that I hate drinking from standard American "pint" glasses. I have a bunch of actual pint glasses from Crate & Barrel that I like a lot-- they have a cool ridge near the top of the glass and have a very British style to...

Force carbing four kegs in a row through shaking/rocking/rattling/rolling isn't nearly as much as fun as it sounds. :mad: But the payoff will be schaweeeeeeet! -Steve

There's an interesting (hopefully) "Sunday Session" coming up this evening on The Brewing Network about brewing calculations-- things you should be measuring and calculating and how to do it. John Palmer will be on it, so you know it's going to be technical, but understandable. The Brewing...

How many times per minute do you click on the "New Posts" link? I'm afraid to count. :cross: It's like some sadistic Skinner box. -Steve

It may only hold four kegs, but damn if I don't feel good about it being full! Of course, I could always fit three more in my kitchen refrigerator...:rolleyes: -Steve

I'm sure this is probably already somewhere in the forum, but it cracks me up every time I think about it: Just tryin' to share the laughter. -Steve

It sucks getting old. I recently turned 40, and I got rewarded today with a bout of unexplained lower back pain-- the second worst I've ever had (the first not too long ago). I want some factory reconditioning. :mad: -Steve

The Windows Server 2008 user interface is an abomination of nature. What were they thinking? Seriously. :mad: Just had to get that off my chest. -Steve

You start riffing shows on the Discovery Science channel. Anyone else? -Steve

Is anyone a bit underwhelmed by Snow Leopard? Yeah, I know it's not a brand spanking new OS, and it's leaner, meaner, faster, and all kinds of 64-bit madness, but geez... couldn't they at least have made a new introductory movie instead of reusing the same one from Leopard? I opted for a...

+ = way too much fun mixing 15 lbs. of honey and 4 gallons of water in a carboy! Aerated the heck out of it, too. -Steve

Just cracked open the last surviving bottle of a mead I made 15 years ago. Overall, it's still good. Definite sherry overtones, and it's better days are certainly behind it, but it still has substantial honey aroma and flavor. Very smooth, with some alcoholic warmth to it. It's darkened...

BBC America is showing an episode right now of Gordon Ramsay's F Word where he is checking on a beer he homebrewed in a previous episode. I'll have to check the Interwebs to grab the previous episode. -Steve

Just made a fresh batch of StarSan last night using distilled water instead of my tap water. Aside from staying crystal clear-- with my tap water it gets cloudy within a few hours-- I've noticed that the distilled water StarSan doesn't seem to foam up as much and is not as soapy feeling on...

Just picked some up yesterday, and I really like it-- a moderately hopped, gently malty APA with loads of citrus (grapefruit!) flavor. Very good mouthfeel, and it goes down very smoothly with a long lingering hop flavor in the finish, ending with just a little bit of caramel sweetness. After...

I brewed a Saison last week and pitched a bunch of Wyeast 3724 into it on Tuesday morning. Fermentation took off pretty quickly and was cranking along. Thirty six hours later, the krauesen had fallen completely and it appeared that fermentation had stopped, or at least slowed down...

Well... maybe you can, but it's a lot harder than not using enough! Just made an 1800 ml starter in a 2000ml Erlenmeyer flask, and only put in three drops/squeezes of Fermcap-S. I figured that would be enough. FAIL! Slight boilover, right through my foam stopper, no less. Cleaned up...

I placed a carboy of ~4.6 gallons of Saison wort in my freezer on Monday night, attached the temperature probe to the side of the carboy, and set the temperature controller to 68 deg. F. Also in the freezer were two kegs with ~7.5 gallons of beer at 34 deg. F. The freezer kicked in, cooled...