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Those of you with conicals, specifically Blichmann, do you have issues with the dump port plugging with break material and/or yeast sediment? How do you deal with this? I have the NPT version of the 14 gallon Fermentator, and have been able to pressurize the fermenter to get the cack...

Just saw Chimay brand beer cheese in one of the nicer supermarkets in town. Unfortunately, a small wedge was over $9. It was priced at $26/lb. It is a soft cheese with a nice looking rind on it. The Chimay label says "Met Bier" but the supermarket-printed label on the wedge just had the...

Saw this today and bought. It's not the most stellar deal ever, but will make for a fun time sampling some stuff from a brewery I've never tried. Free FW tulip, too. Bonus. http://www.groupon.com/deals/funkwerks-denver?c=dnb&p=2 It's one of the side deals.

Works well with WLP002 anyway :p

I have normally been mostly an IPA drinker, like many homebrewers. I just finished off 5 gallons of an IPA, and really found that I wasn't enjoying it for the last few weeks, even though it had matured beautifully. I'm just fatigued on bitter, bright flavors right now. I need a switch to...

I am a huge fan of Boulder's Mojo IPA, and have been dying to clone it. After some discussion here, this is the recipe I came up with, and it pretty well nailed it. I did not have the time to dry hop this, and had to hurry it into bottles so I could pack up and move. The aroma needs a little...

Blue ribbon at the local county fair. Not the most difficult achievement, but this is an excellent beer. If you've never used Saphir, give this a shot. A great SMaSH for the development of the palate. BeerXML attached. Recipe: Saphir Pilsner Brewer: PoB Asst Brewer: Style: German Pilsner...

New game. Here's how it works: We start at 99 bottles of beer. You "take down" a bottle of beer by cracking one open at home and describing it here in as great of detail as possible. We'll try to make it through all 99 bottles without the thread dying. The idea is to write your...

This is a follow-up recipe to this thread: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f95/super-awesome-lemongrass-soda-186976/ This recipe is a lot like Dry Soda Company's Lavender flavored soda. Super easy to make (if you have culinary lavender on hand. don't ask me why I did). RECIPE IS FOR 1 LITER...

Have you guys ever heard of Dry Soda Company? They have 4 packs of glass bottled sodas that I've seen in Rhubarb, Kumquat, Lavender, and Lemongrass flavors. A 4-pack of 12 ounce bottles is more than 6 bucks, but I had to try them. Rhubarb had almost no flavor to me, but the others were really...

OK so I'm not very good at naming recipes. This recipe is named after my Zojirushi Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker (it has a fuzzy logic controller). I wanted a hot weather lighter beer, and wanted to try mashing with sake rice. The results were excellent. Absolutely one of the best beers I've...

Just wondering how many of us give beer away as gifts. Everyone shares their brew, but I'm talking about real gifting, i.e. Christmas.

So I saw some frozen geese in the supermarket, and I was thinking that would be kind of cool to cook up for Christmas dinner. The alternative would be a turkey in the fryer. I was thinking I'd like to fry the goose, unless that's specifically not the way to go. I've never had goose before -...

...at the local library. I've been utilizing my local library's interlibrary loan request system. If they can't find the book you request, they always seem to buy it for their shelves. I think a lot of libraries operate the same way. Try it out - it usually doesn't even take very long.

I went looking for good reference charts for ingredients a while ago, and ended up creating my own for inclusion in my "brew binder." I take no credit for the contents of these files, they are just compiled versions of info I got from BYO. Since this is commonly available reference info...

I don't have a local shop anymore, but it really used to bug me that the owner would always act like if I wanted something they didn't stock, I was wasting my time or being too picky or something. the selection wasn't great, and I frequently asked for yeast or hops that they didn't carry...

Any good rule-of-thumb substitute for amber malt extract when converting recipes to all grain? I thought Beersmith would do this for me, but I just realized it requires you to choose the replacement malt, and just does the gravity calc for you... so, 1 lb amber malt extract = approximately...

I'd love to brew a series of SMaSH brews to gain a better palate for specific ingredients (especially hops, which I really have no discernment for), but I really don't have the time or motivation to brew a bunch of 'boring' batches for tastings' sake. Is anyone else interested in participating...

anybody found a source for cheap drinkware? i'd like to get some european style pints, belgian tulips, etc... proper glassware makes a difference when enjoying quality beer!

Here's what I'm thinking of brewing tomorrow. It's an ale that I'm hoping will be a bit oktoberfest-ish, but I have no Munich, and will be using Apollo for bittering. Looking for a bit of sweetness without being heavy, and low on the bitterness. I've never used the Melanoidin, Aromatic, or...