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It's an absolute blast! Think simple IMO. Try to do too much for your fist group brew and you might have real issues. I set my new single tier system on fire last year. Oops all turned out well. And remember to bring beer. It's like the biggest homebrew share you've ever been to!

If you are looking for taprooms... The best in town are Apex, bailey's, Belmont station and Beermongers and green dragon saraveza are the best. All have a great vibe and different feel. Breweries are a different animal all together.

why so small? i'd go at least 32 qts. so you can do a full vol boil tri ply though imo

Back from the Dead! Next Beer will be a smash of 10lbs golden promise, 1056/wlp001/s05 @ 1oz 60 .5 oz @ 15 and .5 oz FO, and an obscure hop of your choosing (the stranger and less common the better. Date of tasting TBD. Happy Brewing!

We'd love to have another member! I'm sure we'll be meeting again :-) Since you'll be in Beaverton, You'll have to check out Brew Brothers! Chris and the Family are awesome and the selection is Amazing! On to beer: Just pulled a sample of the Plum Beer... I was worried and actually tossed...

In searching the forums I found this OLD post and figured i'd share my little experiment... First I started with brewing a batch of saison. then after 10 days in primary i cold steeped some debittered Black malt and added 12 chopped dried plums and boiled the concoction... I cooled this and...

Yeah I'd imagine it has mutated a tad over 5gen. I like the strain though... I got excellent results from it.

It was a special run for our cheers to belgian beers festival here in Portland this year. Call brewbrothers.biz and the probably still have a smack pack or two left.

try brewbrothers.biz they tend to have everything. shipping might suck but who knows. Check it out.

Those tamales were delicious! It was an amazing day!

Looking good! Thanks for immortalizing the day :-)

Always boil the fruit imo...not cause you have to, but cause its an easy precaution

Thought I'd share this with you all... http://hopville.com/recipe/1337335/saison-recipes/annoying-new-girl half of this will be put on 2lb's of chopped prunes and have a castle debittered black malt tea added to it. the wlp670 is a farmhouse/brett blend here's to something that may...

Oak Smoked Pacific Jade Black Saison with prunes it's going to be strange lol!!!

Will be brewing a 10g batch of saison that will be split and one side will go on brett only and the other side will be given 2lbs of chopped prunes and some debittered belgian black malt tea and brett'd. Might do a 10gal batch of IPA if i'm not too wasted lol this will all happen at Big Brew @...

so you doubled my mash/sparge recirc time... As far as set up is concerned... I have a single tier system it takes less than a min to wheel it out and turn on the water and propane. As far as the rest is concerned I do any prep/setup, cleaning, sanitation, taking readings takes 2 sec, notes...

if it took me consistently more than 3.5 hours to brew I wouldn't do AG. wow 6 hours? my brew day: 30 min to heat 15 gal h20 40 min mash/recirc/sparge 20min mash, 5-10min recirc/sparge 20min bring to boil 60min boil 15min chill direct to fermenter 10 sec pitch yeast 20-30 min clean...

The 4oz bottles say to add the whole thing to 5 gal.... don't listen. Start with 1/4 and move up as you see fit. if it takes the whole thing to get it where you want it fine... But, you'd hate to ruin it. It's a personal thing, so slowly add it till you find the balance you desire. good luck!

looks like a fine recipe... I think you will probably get a little lower efficiency that 72. My experience has shown around 60% for BiaB worst case just add some honey at flame out :-) since it is a kolsch I'd definitely use a fining agent in the secondary (like gelatin) it will guarantee that...

So first off it really depends on what you desire from brewing... Does it take more equipment? Sure, but not that much. You really only need one extra vessel. (i'm sure I'll get flamed here, lol) and at that you could do BiaB and eliminate that extra vessel... as far as cost of that equipment...