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anybody here play the online "game" (i guess you call it a game, i have no idea) called "torn" ?? Just curious. I've been on for over an year but was curious who all on here partakes.

with Tangerine IPAs popping up here and there I thought it may be kinda neat to try a weird specialty beer utilizing Tang. My thought was to make not a session IPA but not a big one at all and to add Tang flavoring to it, either at the boil or during fermentation like a dry hop. Any idea what...

Anybody else going to be pouring at Jose Pistola's on June 2nd in Philly? i placed in a competition last year which made me eligible for the one this year.. i have a black IPA, a belgian amber, and a coffee porter that i'll be serving.. just wondering if anybody else from the forum will be there...

i have a saison that i made and is currently sitting in a BB.. problem is i went to all this trouble to get the pink peppercorns that i wanted to try out but then on brewday i totally forgot them :mad: any ideas on how much i should use in the BB.. i need to dryhop a couple of hoppy beers as...

how do we not have a thread dedicated to the best show on TV right now (an IMHO one of the best book series in quite a while).. who all is watching and if you aren't, why the heck not?!

My wife wants to make a knit growler cover for our use when transporting our beer. I was wondering if any of you have any patterns or know of any out there? we did a search online and only found one type, so we wanted to see what else is possible. Thanks!

i have a chocolate stout that i've made a couple of times that i really enjoy.. i will be kegging a new batch on sunday and i would like to see what it would taste like with some lactose added.. i've seen that you can add it during boil or at bottling/kegging time.. my wife isn't a big fan of...

i've seen many places online about when is the ideal time to harvest, but i wanted to get all of your opinions.. my 3 plants are doing well and i am looking forward to harvest/drying/freezing.. i was curious how you all decide when it is time to harvest.. i believe i have another couple...

i think i've lost count on how many threads i've made a comment on, then later one (months/years) went back and made a similar comment on.. only to realize after the fact.. some of those long threads can mess you up :drunk: this happen to anybody else?

how do i go about trimming the lower leaves? here is a picture of where i started to trim some of them on one of my plants but i didn't want to do too much or go too far w/o knowing what is good practice. You can see in the front plant that i trimmed some of the leaves on the outer-most bine...

did anybody else participate in the Yuengling 5K? my wife and i ran it in this past weekend and it was a great event.. always wanted to tour the brewery and it was actually quite interesting in compared with facts from other brewery tours i had been on.

just a curious question.. what is the effect of dry hopping with a high AA hop as opposed to a low AA hop.. since the dryhopping is mostly for aroma, does the high AA just give a stronger/longer lasting aroma or just different in general?

how does one easily calculate your efficiency? i use beersmith and i remember when i first set it up that it had a bunch of questions involving what you brew with, tun space, yadayada.. i believe all of my recipes have 70% at the top of the file for efficiency, but i was wondering if there is a...

i made a partially raised garden to use for my hops, though i am looking to add to the existing soil and mix in a bunch of my own compost and some better quality soil that what is there now.. what would be the best product to mix with my natural soil (which doesn't' seem to great) along with the...

I've been using the bowie bottle filler for about a year now, and i love it.. even though i've never really had a bad bottle fill (bottles filled like 6 months ago still are drinking nicely) i really like how the blichmann beer gun lets you purge the bottle with co2 before you even bottle...

i'm looking for a better way to store my small parts that i have to clean each brewday.. i have a couple small rubbermaid type containers; one for stirplates/those accessories.. one for things like irish moss and sugar, and one for things like caps, random connectors, worm clamps.. but i'm...

i wanted to see what you all used for your hop trellis materials.. i am in the process of designing mine and am at the point of what material to use.. do you reuse the same material each year? or is it easier to just throw it out and use new material? what is the best type of either...

is anybody else excited when they come home from work and have a northern brewer catalog (or any number of the others) in your mailbox.. i received one this week and i have a handful of the pages dogeared and made sure to point out to my wife and to let her family know things that i "need" to...

i've always used a hop spider with my hop additions because i use a plate chiller and have been worried about stuff getting stuck in there.. i think my hop utilization is lacking because of it so i wanted to try testing out a whirlpool to see if that would work.. does anybody know of a...

i've seen on here many different pieces of the steps to fermenting a lager, but i wanted to try and find/make a schedule for me for making my first lager.. here is what i have read in a bunch of threads and put together here.. please for all of you with lager experience, just take a look and see...