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2 each of beer glasses picked up while traveling and never used: Lindemans, Leffe, China's, Guinness, and Brugs. $30 for all together. Not desperate to part, just seeing if anyone has a use for them. So not really interested in packing them up and shipping them. I am willing to meet up in...

I've pretty much hit my goal of a dozen trees each of traditional U.K., French, and US cider varieties, but I can't resist the urge to make more. This year I traded some scions with folks on the NA Scion Exchange Facebook group, plus picked up a few from Fedco and CiderAuction. For my apples...

I wanted a keezer where the door would function normally without increased weight for access of bottled beer, yeast or fermcap stored within. I didn't want the taps in the collar, because I feared bumping the handles when accessing the inside or moving kegs in or out. I searched a bit here and...

Thought crossed my mind tonight while drinking an O'so Restless Soul. I wonder if there is a direct relationship behind those that appreciate funky beers and those that enjoy the earthy taste of mushrooms. Maybe this is more appropriately a drunken rambling.

Just thought I'd share how I've been dealing with really hard water after reading the Water book. When overseas I had an RO source and my efficiency was upper 70s assuming I didn't overstuff my mash tun. I lost about 8-10% moving home, but that also included equipment changes. I remedied the...

After a couple years in China, where I worked with whatever base malt I could get locally, I was faced with a huge variety of choices coming home. I want to purchase base malt by the sack. Granted I did quite well in China thanks to the generosity and assistance of Mike Jordan, the brewmaster...

I have a super smooth Brett Trois porter which I decided to spike a glass for something different. Due to the smoothness, my hand gravitated to the Baileys instead of the bourbon. Yowsers! The pic is after I drank the bulk of the stiff foam curdled mess.

Made a 1.75L starter a week ago with Wyeast 5526 on a stirplate. Today I decanted a glass of it. It was a very loose, easily roused up slurry, so I pitched the remaining 1.5L into a Flanders Red/Brownish wort. Decided to go for a 100% Brett L after very positive results from 100% Brett Brux...

Currently chilling a new saison recipe named "Four Malts" in Chinese due to the grain bill. I'm geeked. I'll share now, and update later once it progresses. Original plan was 6% each of malted wheat, rye, oats, and sugar. Actual quantities varied a little based on what was on hand...

In case anyone happens to know someone who somehow forgot to label which bag had the Vienna and which had the Munich, steeping about a quarter cup in a rocks glass is sufficient to differentiate the color, aroma, and taste. Even with only a 6-8L color difference, it'll show up clearly. Not that...

My family visited the Czech Republic from Christmas until after New Years to reunite with old friend and neighbors from when we lived there in 2000-2003. Thought I'd share some beer related pics and comments which I put in a gallery here. No tasting notes, it was all going down too fast and...

After a couple weeks perusing the forum, playing around with the app on my iPod, and replying to a few threads, I'm coming out of the woodwork and committing to it. The name's Dave Mast. I been working as an engineering manager in China for over a year now. I started brewing about a year...