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My guess is that nothing will change, save for additional locations or even franchising of the Northern Brewer brand. AB InBev has no reason to mess with a good thing. The guys at Northern are rad and I'll continue to shop there until something real changes.

Strawberries are slug magnets. They'll dig right through the berries then start eating leaves. They'll eat anything else nearby too, especially after a rain. I use diatomaceous earth all around the strawberries. It's non toxic and it highly effective against any soft bodied critter like slugs...

I used a grain bag as a filter on the end of my racking cane. That caught all the clumps. I siphoned from about the middle of the carboy and stopped with about 2 inches left so the floaters stayed above and the sinkers stayed below. There's still a little bit of fine solids floating around...

To wrap this up if anyone cares. I bottled yesterday with .75 cups of piloncillo simple syrup per gallon, after stabilizing with k-meta and sorbate. Before backsweetening the gravity FG was .998, and the taste was bitter and unpleasant. With the backsweetening the bitterness disappeared and...

Simple bochet, made about a year ago.

I do the same thing. Every 5 gallon batch ends up as a 3 gallon batch of known good product and two separate 1 gallon batches of experiments.

And patience. Patience clears any mead.

After 2 weeks in the primary I moved this half honey/half LME concoction to a secondary fermenter and there is an almost overpowering strawberry banana aroma. Which is exactly the type of thing I was going for. Hooray for successful experiments!

Tuba, trombone, trumpet each for many years. I'm also really bad at the banjo and the piano.

This fruit-salad-ness is exactly what I am going for in with my 100% brett braggot, using Yeast Bay Amalgamation. It is an experiment based on very little real information. So It's great to hear you got a lot of the very same character I'm looking for in mine.

Took me longer than expected to get to this one. I made a fairly large starter using a 64oz growler on a heat mat to keep it at about 80F. The OG was higher than I was shooting for at 1.07. But after 4 days it took off vigorously, so in about a week I'll have a proper starter to get the braggot...

I moved this to clean containers for further aging. I only got 2 gallons out of the original 3 gallons because the coconut absorbed so much liquid. I thought about saving the leftover coconut to use for baking but all the coconut flavor is gone so it's really not worth it. The bochet smells...

Budweiser is a brand, not a company. So they can make fun of silly craft beer trends and be part of a company that sells those trends. Ford makes big burly work trucks and has commercials making fun of wimpy trucks, then also sells tiny hybrid 2 door sedans that couldn't pull a suitcase. I...

Here you go. Everything you need. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0937381802/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

The Kurt's Apple Pie is one of my favorites for sure, so my opinion may not mean much to you : ) Here are some of my favorites Moonlight Meadery "Fury" - spicy peppers B Nektar "Necromangocon" - mango and black pepper Redstone Meadery "Black Raspberry Nectar"

I made a batch tonight. I used Yeast Bay Melange for the critters, and Hersbrucker hops. I had to add some Fuggles (that I had leftover) @20 min to get the IBUs where I wanted because I didn't math well.

27 oz seems to be the proper end point here. The coconut flavor is very strong and there is a quarter inch thick layer of fat/oil floating on the top of the carboy. All the cocnut has sunk to the bottom over the last week so it's saturated now and likely done contributing. I guess I'll be...

Diatomaceous earth. Works like a charm and is completely inert and nontoxic.

I grow lots of different things that end up in my drinks. Not a lot of any one thing, but lots of different things. Raspberries - Red and Yellow Honeyberries/haskaps Grapes - Wild Native Hops - Columbus (doing well) and Cascade (not so well) Prickly Pear Watermelon and Honeydew...

Where do you play? I used to play at Acorn Park in Roseville or Kaposia down on the South side of St Paul.