Recent content by AkwardTurtle

Hey everybody, We have a Baltic porter up for bottling this weekend, already have our coffee beans picked out and just looking for some info. If you've done a dark brew featuring coffee before, how much have you used? We're planning on adding it in at bottling, to preserve the flavor...

We just finished up brewing a blackberry, and even though it's not a hard lemonade/cider like your looking for, the one thing I can say is if you use fresh, they make an almighty mess! Dang tasty though

Welcome to the forum. Bellingham's a great area, got a sister thats getting ready to graduate from Western next year (Go Viking's Womens Crew). I do about a batch a week too, and yep it can really devour your time. Thank god for sleep, but then I dream about brewing. Maybe you could write...

That's an excellent question, and one I'm excited to hear the answer to. What is the history of beer in China? I might just have to start another research topic. Could everyone please stop bringing up new questions and information? This horizon broadening is really eating up time;). Oh...

I too lurked for many days, but there's just to many questions that need answers, and just so darn many people with the info on here. Welcome to the "hobby" (read addiction)/

The few times that we've used dry hopping, usually trying to duplicate one of the isane IPA's from Dogfish Head, its turned out pretty well. All dry hopping is to add hops to your primary, or maybe even secondary, to add some of the oils that you normally lose during a boil. Gives a real nice...

I know, why did PBR get so hip? I too drank it before it was popular, and now if I order at a bar I'm mistaken for a hipster :mad:. I actually like the beer, not trying to be ironic.

Horsehead Bay's a great area, I have an uncle that lives out that way. I wish I still lived on the water, my family had three connected properties totalling about 300 ft of waterfront at the mouth of Wollochet Bay. Talk about fun growing up. I've been to Seven Seas, went to school with Mike...

Good to see some folks from The Big Empty brewing. Just helped a buddy move out to Eastern, beautifal country out that way. DC area must be a big change in scenery. Your're never to old as long as you're still brewing :mug: Never really watched the Zags, but from everything I've heard I'm...

Yeah, we have seen an interesting assortment of people in the neighborhood when we're outside taking a break and enjoying some homebrews. Ours isn't the only product being made in that area. I can't wait till we can move operations to my neck of the woods (Olalla). So much quieter. And fewer...

As much as I do make fun of the Cougs (and I will, repeatedly) I love the rivalry between the two schools and have to admit that their fans are a great buch of people and do throw one heck of a tailgate party. Wish I could go the Apple Cup this year. But I'm a Low-Volt Technician and the...

Dang its good to see so many Washington folks on here! Welcome to the West Coast, is our laid back pace driving you absolutley bonkers? The frustration really should have some kind of fancy acronym, we see it a lot out here. But if we do that, someone will come up with a pill for it. Forget...

Greetings everyone, We're a group of three that has been homebrewing as a duo for about a year and a half, and just added a third about a month ago. We're in western Washington, South Puget Sound area in a "wonderful" section of Tacoma called Hilltop. Needless to say we've seen some...