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Masstoberfest 2018. Saturday September 22, 2018. Jeezuz, ain't this thing ever going to die? Twelve years! Holy cow, why my wife doesn’t forbid me from doing this again is beyond me. You guys know the drill by now. Bring your rig and brew with us. No matter how you do it, we want to see...

Hey Kids, So its that time again, time for the planning, the BS-ing and the breathless anticipation that leads up to Masstoberfest. Saturday, September 16, 2017 is the big day. It was 11 years ago when three guys came over to my house to learn how to do an all grain brew. It was a freezing...

Ten years. Ten years. Damn. For ten years I've been inviting you idiots over to my house for Masstoberfest. And you keep coming. Dammit. Well, OK, I'm not going to be the one to pull the plug on this pathetic gathering of sociopaths, so I guess we have to do it again. This year's...

Hey Battah Battah Battah Swiiing!!!!!!! Oh sorry... I was watching the Pedro Martinez public ball washing on TV since there is no other local baseball worth watching and it occurred to me that the season is drawing to a close. (Who am I sh!tting? The Sox are deader than any four of the...

Oh my. I feel so bad for the Seahawks and their legion of diehard fans. That was such a well played game both teams deserved to win. Can we petition the league to make them co-champions? What about trophies? Do they get trophies? Because they should. What about ice cream? Did Coach...

Sitting here in limbo, But I won't be here for long. Sitting here in limbo Pretty soon my butt be gone. Well, the CDC surrounds me but I know that my blood is gonna flow. Sitting on the runway But the plane ain't gonna fly I don't feel so good now After she coughed in my eye. Well, the CDC...

Well it's getting to be that time of year again, time to start prepping for Masstoberfest. "What is Masstoberfest?" you ask. Actually, you shouldn't ask that 'cause we're all going to wonder what rock you've been hiding under. Masstoberfest started over 8 years ago when I invited a...

So last spring I opened up my big mouth and promised the lovely Alice a patio for her birthday. Well, I've got 54 year old knees and and a nephew who owns a landscape company and needs to keep his crew busy so the choice was clear. We decided to wait till the fall when his schedule slowed...

Hi Kids, OK, I got a go ahead from SWMBO for Saturday Septemeber 28 for this years version of Masstoberfest. If you've been before you know all about it; the agony, the ectasy, the joy, the tears, the naked midget jello wrestling. If you're amoung those poor dysenfranchised souls who...

Hey Guys, I'd like to take this opportunity to announce the 17th Annual South Shore Brew Club Brewoff and invite you all to enter. This is a BJCP registered event with BJCP registered judges. It will take place on April 21, 2012 with registration open until April 7th. Entries will be...

It's time to start planning this years Masstoberfest. Saturday September 17 is gonna be the day. Beer, Brewing, Barbeque and Bullsheeting will all figure prominantly in the festivities. Smart folks will call their doctor ASAP to get a prophylactic prescription for Lipitor and start chewing...

De Ronde de van Vlaanderen is one of the European bike races, sort of like the Tour de France only instead of it being a month long event, its a single day race through the Belgian Flanders countryside. It just so happens that it goes through some of the best beer producing regions in the...

So I'm brewing yesterday with Spawn #1 and friends and I'm smoking some ribs. And I get the idea that I'll smoke some salmon at the same time. But I want to cold smoke the salmon. What to do, what to do? I think I McGyver-ed quite the nice solution. First, the ribs... Next, the...

In an effort to maybe keep a thread or two sorta kinda on track I thought I would start our own Masshole 'Tap Room-like' Thread. Now I know it won't be easy for Brian to restrict his obnoxiousness to a single thread nor do I expect to confine myself to this singular romper room but let's...

OK I want to make up a copper manifold to sit at the bottom of a mash tun with an internal diameter of 24.5". I want an octagonal manifold and will put a few cross pieces in to draw wort from the middle of the grain bed. (I won't drill holes towards the corners of the octagon, so no-one need...

We're doing it again. Yeager and I both swore that we wouldn't, we have such polar opposite brewing styles that we drive each other bat**** but the results speak for themselves. This beer is phenomenal. We've been told by MANY people that they like our version hands down better than the real...

OK, here we go, boys and girls... It's coming and it's coming soon. (God help us all.) When will that ridiculous waste of time, effort and bandwidth known as The Tap Room crack the one million post mark? And who will be the one to do it? Place your predictions here. Date, time and HBT...

OK, since no one wants to read thru 20 pages of the Masstoberfest thread, and I don't blame you, I decided that the easiest way to avoid having to answer the same questions over and over is to do this. 1. When is the party? Saturday October 16. The day after tomorrow. 2. What time...

So since I was 18 I've wanted to learn to play the guitar but I never got around to it. So a couple of months ago I was at the dive shop getting tanks filled and there is a music store next door. I load the tanks in the truck and walk into the music store and walk out 20 minutes later with a...

Hey folks, Well, it's that time of year again. Time for New England brewers to gather together to eat, drink and brew. I'm throwing another Masstoberfest party at my place on Saturday October 16. Any and all Home Brewers and friends of Home Brewers are invited. We'll do it the way we've...