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I just got an AP alert saying the EPA will declare greenhouse gases a danger to human health and they must be regulated. Is there a chance in hell hobbyists will be able purchase CO2 or are we all going to have to go back to bottle/cask conditioning? Hopefully this will turn out to be...

This is the superficial beer thread. This is for those labels that you just think are so stupid that you won't pick that beer up on the shelf and just pass it on by. Not necessarily ones you just don't really think about because they aren't creative, but ones that suck so bad it makes you not...

This recipe won 3rd place of all Lagers in the 2009 HBT BJCP competition. The best way to do this style is to brew it in like January or February and lager it till the grass is green again. I didn't know it before brewing this beer, but Maibock is one of my favorite beers to drink. I entered...

This recipe tied the points for Amber Hybrid first place in the 2009 HBT BJCP competition, but YooperBrew beat me out by intangibles and won the category (argh this happened to me twice in the comp ). This is MK II of my steam beer recipe and it is the same for the most part but I made some...

This is the recipe for the highest scoring American Brown in the first (annual?) HBT BJCP competition. It tied CheschreCat's APA for first place in points in the American Ale category, but he beat me out with his intangibles and went on to place in the BOS round, congratulations CheschreCat...

These should be hitting the shelves next week. White labs also has a few listed for Nov/Dec release: WLP072 French Ale Yeast WLP006 Bedford British Ale WLP545 Belgian Strong Ale Yeast Has anyone use the WLP072? I think that work great for Biere de Mars brewed in late December for...

Tomorrow is the annual Octobeerfest at Mad Anthony Brewing Company on the corner of Broadway & Taylor in Fort Wayne. Our local homebrew club, MASH Fort Wayne Homebrewers, will be pouring 30 different meads and beers. Myself and fellow HBT member Spauldib will be pouring, so come out to say...

I had not seen a side by side experiment so far so I went ahead and did one with a Special Bitter. It was a ten gallon split, with the exact same starter split between the two of them. I was trying to keep this as consistent as possible between the two of them, the recipe was as follows...

I am getting ready to brew me some Biere de Garde but I would like to hear what some of your favorite strains for the style are. I have a nice big pitch of lager yeast ready to go so I am thinking about going that way. Farmhouse Ales mentions that when using lager yeast it should be fermented at...

Every time they respond to a "is my beer okay?" thead with "No it's ruined better send it to me!!:D:mug::ban::tank::D;):fro::cross::drunk::D" Seriously, we have all seen this a few hundred times and so have you...you know better. This joke is played out and overdone, it's not clever or...

What other industry would have prominent members of it rapping about being too cheap to buy new stainless equipment? YouTube - THE PAIN RELIEVAZ "Pinchin' Pennies"

I am planning to do a fruit beer with a bunch of fruit concentrate. I want to ferment half of it out and then backsweeten with the other half of the fruit. I can filter down to .5 micron (although I already have a 1 micron so it would be nice to use that). So I would like to just filter out the...

Myself and a few other members from my club entered some beers in the competition that was scheduled to take place on this past Saturday. I have checked the site a few times per day but there has been no updates in weeks. If anyone has the results I would love to see if we placed and hear how...

I know they used to advertise that they cold stored this beer throughout transporting...but I haven't heard anything about that in a long time. I assume they now pasteurize, because otherwise we would still be hearing about it in their advertisements. I have been very curious about this for a...

I am getting ready to make a 10 gal batch of pyment and trying to decide how much yeast to buy. I haven't seen any solid numbers around the mead community of how much yeast is recommended for pitch. The yeast I am going to use comes in 5g packs so it would take more than two to equal your...

I love all the styles, some more than others...but I truly do enjoy a well made example of every BJCP style. Currently I am going through and brewing every style there is and some I can't wait to get to...but there is one I just really have no interest in making. Witbier. It's not that I...

I make starter for essentially every beer I use liquid yeast in. I have noticed that when I am making a smaller starter (around 1L) the night before brew day and pitch the whole thing right off of the stir plate that I end up with activity usually within a couple of hours. Now when I cold crash...

"Chico" California ale yeast An understated flannel-clad bad ass who works his fingers to the bone through hot and cold to keep us all happy. WLP380 Hefeweizen Seriously...WTF? Saflager S-23 You remember a couple of months ago when you went and picked up a hooker? You...

The plan is to brew a Maibock tomorrow. So a couple days ago I made a great big starter, threw it on the stir plate and left it at 58F till this morning. It was all fermented out so I moved it to the fridge to cold crash it and pulled up the foil to grab a sniff. It did not smell good, no...

I am building an 8 tap kegerator and I plan to always have one tap devoted to cider/mead/wine. I have read that you need to have a plastic faucet for these more acidic beverages, but would stainless work instead? I plan to get all perlick faucets which I have read are entirely stainless, so if I...