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Brian Hunt was a guest on the 1-24-10 Sunday Session and man, this guy has done some SERIOUS THINKING about beer. I know that almost no one here has had the chance to try his (Moonlight Brewing's) beers, but I still highly recommend giving the show a listen. I found his perspective to be...

Busted into my Lagunitas bomber collection last weekend. Here was the scene before we got started at a gathering at a friend's house. From left to right: Undercover Shutdown Investigation Ale Lucky 13 Freak Out! Ruben & the Jets Kill Ugly Radio B3K Absolutely Free 2009 Correction...

I'm going to a Halloween party on Saturday. One of the hosts talked me into brewing up 5 gallons of a Guinness Clone for the event so I will be "bringing it strong" as the kids say. I'm normally not a big Halloween guy and struggle to come up with a costume (and usually don't bother). But I...

My buddy Jello told me about this. It's not so much a drinking game as a life style. Given my general inability to commit, I have not taken "the sacred oath" but I really love the idea. What am I talking about? From the bull moose terminology page of www.bullmoosedrinkingclub.com...

Really this only merits the status of rumor, though the source I heard it from is credible. Apparently the Tap Room at Lagunitas has been shut down for a week due to a health violation. I heard it was an issue with the bathrooms, which, having used them myself, is not alltogether surprising...

According to my moms ripleys believe or not calendar, olfrygt is a dutch word expressing fear at being unable to find a beer while travelling. I need to figure out how to pronounce it.

Starting this weekend, I'm going to be taking some of my beers in kegs to a couple of events, so I wanted to mark my cornies somehow. It's simple and a bit crude, but I'm pretty happy with my first attempt.

I have a corny of ordinary bitter that is slated to go to a party on the 17th. It was brewed on 9/20 and racked to the keg on 10/1 -- 11 days in the primary. Maybe a bit earlier than I should have moved it off the yeast cake, but I wanted to use the yeast (white labs london ale) in a new...

I'm working for a recipe for a pumpkin beer. I want to end up with something that has a pumpkiny color to go along with the pumpkin flavor. I've started with my belgian blond recipe and tweaked the malt bill for color. Having never brewed with pumpkin before, I do not know how much color it...

Reading about thehosts walk in under the closet, I was struck dumb with the realization that I could probably create a temperature controlled fermentation chamber in a closet in my house. I often use this closet for fermentation anyway, as it is near the middle of the house and so the most...

Anyone going to this? I am arriving in Seattle for a vacation tomorrow. Of course my dumb ass was unaware of the event when I scheduled my flight and so I will most likely not make it before the rally's over, but may still stop by Elysian Fields. I'm also thinking about heading over to see...

It was rough day at work. I'm leaving on Saturday for a week-long vacation and of course the pile of crap to get done before I go fails to shrink as the end of the week approaches. And good news/bad news, the fresh hops I ordered from my LHBS did not arrive in time for me to brew last...

This thing showed up on my local Craigslist and I could not pass it up: It's a 228 oz Reynolds aluminum "Tapper" keg with it's own little cooler. Branded for Falstaff. It opens up so you can take the keg out. Obviously I want to adapt the keg for use as a homebrewing container...

Picking up ingredients at the LHBS this morning for my Scottish 60/- brewday (and rib smoking hee haw) tomorrow, I noticed a flyer next to the hop fridge which said that they were taking orders for fresh hops. Orders to be taken until next Tuesday 9/1 and then said hops to be picked in adjacent...

I was there Sunday and I fully believe the claim on the website: THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF STONE BEERS ON TAP IN ONE PLACE AT ONE TIME, EVER! 36 taps, a few casks, many beers aged on oak, most of them in the very high gravity category. I have been intending to visit my friends Lisa and...

Arguably this belongs in the commercial beer threads, but just finishing off my first bottle of lindemann's gueze and I'm quite buzzed. The only other lambics I've had have been their fruit: raspberry, peach, cherry and I was not sure what to expect from this bottle. OMG, it's friggin...

Anyone been to this previously or going this year? Seattle July 4-6 Portland July 18-20 http://www.seattlebeerfest.com/ I'm considering going to the one in Portland. I've got so much frickin vacation time and this should be a relatively cheap trip. Budget beer tourism!

I was in Washington last week for work. Flew into Seattle, but spent most of my time in Mount Vernon -- about 60 miles north of Seattle proper. We're pretty spoiled with good beer here in the North SF Bay Area. but I was impressed when Google Maps pointed out 5 breweries within 20 miles or so...

I brewed a slightly modified version of Brewpastor's Dark Night of the Soul recipe yesterday. I've never tackled anything this big before. It exceeds the normal capacity of my system, so I decided to do a reiterated mash. I mashed half the grain bill, took the first 4.5 gallons of the...

This was part of the order I placed with Liquid Solutions when I ordered the mysterious Item #2499. The label describes it as "Traditional Norwegian Smoked Ale with Juniper Berries". The other text on the label reads: "Once, every farm in Norway was required by law to brew its own ale. All...