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Hey All! I want to do a 5 Year Vertical tasting of Anchor Christmas Ales, but last year, I inadvertently drank my last 2010 instead of one of the 2009s I had, so I am without a 2010 example. I have 1 2008, 2 2009s, a 2011, and bunch of the 2012s. Does anybody know of any resources online...

I'm having a hard time finding previous posts about this, but I tried searching, and couldn't find anything. I just wanted to share the knowledge that Stone is finally distributing to Chicago. All week last week, various bars around the city were sponsoring 'Stone Week' and turning over...

... if I wait for a few days before bottling after taking them out? I did a poor job of planning out this brew. I've been dry hopping my Cascadian Dark Ale for 7 days. I wanted to get the hops out of there now, but I'm traveling for work until Thursday night, so I don't have time to bottle it...

Hi All - I am looking to build a fermentation chamber/kegerator (or two) using Sanyo 4912 refrigerators. I wanted to open up a debate regarding the pros and cons of various thermostats. Things I was hoping to learn more about are ease of setup, flexibility, and dependibility. Also, since...

I've done about 6-7 stove top all-grain brews with my extract brewing equipment. I've decided to make the jump, and bought a 60 quart Igloo "Ice Cube" cooler and made myself a manifold. Well, I just finished the sparge on my first "real" all-grain brew. So far, everything looks and smells...

... but I fear it may be infected, and I want to figure it out before I pitch it. I have a 3 liter water bottle, and made a 1.5 liter starter, then crash cooled it, and racked off the beer, and stepped it up with another 1.5 liters of wort. I came back from work today, and it was clear that...

I get back from a stressful flight, after a stressful week in Texas, pop open the fridge to grab a cold one, only to realize that I didn't chill any before I left for the week. Amateur mistake. The only beer in there is a bomber of IPA that I was saving to compare to the IPA I brewed up a...

I'm flying out to Dallas for work this week, but I have the day off for MLK day. I'll have a rental car in a strange city, with nothing to do, does anybody have any suggestions? I looked at BeerMapping.com, and it looks like there is not a whole lot to offer as far as breweries and such...

Hey All - I'm in the process of ramping up my AG setup, and I got a few Amazon Gift Cards from the holidays to kill. I would like to go with a nice, big boil kettle (15 Gallon) so that I can make some 10+ gallon full boils. I've been looking around Amazon, and I was able to draft up a cost...

So, starting this week, I've begun traveling for work, from Chicago to Dallas/Plano. It's a safe assumption that I'll be doing this most weeks if not every week. I'll be traveling Monday morning through Thursday night. Since I usually brew on the weekends, this shouldn't suffer much. The...

Hey all - I am going to be in Boston for a few hours tomorrow, by myself, and I'm looking for some fun things to do while I'm there. I'm looking in to touring the Sam Adams/Boston Beer brewery, but I'd also like to hit up a few smaller breweries and brewpubs. I can't get drunk, because I'm...

I just wanted to celebrate my first run at using the new immersion chiller I got for Christmas. Copper 50', it cooled down 3 gallons of wort from boiling to 65F in 15-20 minutes. I didn't even have time to rehydrate my yeast. And for the first time since I started brewing, I've had time to...

Hey All - My uncle gave me two cans of Mr. Beer American Devil IPA extract for Christmas. I've read through some of the MANY Mr. Beer threads around here, so I'm aware of some of the things I need to do to make this a decent beer, including using new yeast (I have some Nottingham to work...

Hey All - I'm in the planning stages for building a stirplate, and I was hoping for a recommendation on which magnet I should use. I have a bunch of harddrives, but they all have data on them, so I don't really want to scrap any of them. I was looking at Forcefield Magnets but was unsure...

Greetings fellow Chicagoans... I was wondering if there is anyone out there in the greater Chicagoland area that had the required tools to convert a Sanke Keg to a keggle. I will be obtaining a keg in the next couple weeks, and I think I'll be getting a burner for Christmas (if not, I'll be...

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I'm sitting here on an ugly Sunday night, enjoying my traditional 'Sunday Night Pizza and Beer.' I'm enjoying both a Hawaiian Style Pizza, and Pepperoni and Bacon, with a nice glass of O'Fallons 5 Day IPA. There are few things in this world better than Pizza and Beer. What style of beer...

...sigh.... IMPORTANT EDIT: FG was 1.036, not OG.... FG was 1.036. The recipe was my first attempt at developing my own, and I WAY over spiced and put way too much molasses in. It is extremely sweet, and has a hot alcohol taste from fermenting at 78F. Its been sitting in secondary for 3...

I did a search, but all I could find were questions regarding how to set up a nitro tap, but I couldn't find anything regarding WHY a nitro tap. I know stouts and porters are often served with them. Does it just produce a creamier head? Do you have better head retention? Are there any...

I have brewed two beers that are heavily spiced. One of which was VERY heavily spiced with cloves, ginger, cinnamon and molasses (Holiday Spiced Ale) that latest batch was pretty heavily spiced with coriander, grains of paradise, and star anise (Belgian Wit). Both of these brews proved to not...