Recent content by Anelda

I pronounced it Wil-am-ET before visiting the area and overheard locals saying Wi-LAM-et. It's all good. People mispronounce Kissimmee all the fricken time. Myself included before I moved to Orlando. It's Kis-SIM-mee not KISS-i-mee. "Come ovah heah and kiss a mee."

BMC only bar/restaurant: Water Every other place: Whatever sounds good to me at the time. I like most styles of beer and am not particularly picky. Some days it's a fruity St. Louis Frambroise, others it's Founder's Imperial Stout, or even my ol' stand-by of Jai alai. Most places I frequent...

Redlight Redlight is an excellent craft beer bar and consistently gets mentioned. If you plan on being in the actual Orlando area and not Kissimmee, other places include: Gnarly Barley, Oblivion Tap Room, Cask and Larder, which is technically Winter Park and a brewpub, but they make some pretty...

Eh, I never turn on the heat even when it gets to 57 degrees in the house. It's not that cold, put on a goddamn sweater and another blanket on the bed. Then again, I live in central Florida, I'm from New England, thus, I refuse to acknowledge that it ever gets 'cold' here.

Wasps love to eat apples. When I was a teenager, my parents had a fairly large piece of property in Connecticut that had several crab apple trees. There would always be tons of wasps eating the fallen apples. They probably smell the easy source of sugar and are defensive of it. Now, I don't...

Unfortunately I wasn't around for this as I couldn't get off from work but I love it when my husband tells this story: His team, every year, has a team outing and this year they went to a spring training baseball game over in Tampa. They have Sweetwater IPA on draft for something like $7 for...

I absolutely adore sour beers and they tend to be my favorite styles. But, I hate the duchesse. It tastes like a balsamic vinegar reduction sauce that you would glaze over chicken... which is fine, but I don't want to drink a bottle of it. I tried it early on in my sour exploration, hated it...

I'm also in Florida and my house regularly hits 83 with the A/C constantly running. It's a big, older house with tons of windows so it has a hard time keeping cool. Before we purchased our 7.0 cu ft GE freezer for fermenting, we used a swamp cooler like what has been mentioned (a plastic...

+1. Doesn't help that this bar is in comfortable bicycling distance.

About the only two things? The fact that I can order everything online and then walk into the store and pick it up completely ready. Also, their prices are good. It's cheaper than ordering online. However, the store is crowded, cramped, largely disorganized, and kind of dingy. The owners would...

As a person who lives in an older house in Central Florida, our house routinely hits 84 degrees inside even with the AC set to mid 70s. Like others have suggested, a swamp cooler is good enough for keeping the beer in the mid to high 60s. I used 3-4 frozen 2 liter bottles and switched them out...

Sheesh, that's expensive. Just the grain and hops at my LHBS: $25.04. As my LHBS doesn't have wyeast, the White Labs equivalent would at $6.99 for a total of $32.03 for your recipe. And that's the crappy LHBS. I know the other one in my area is cheaper but they don't have prices online as...

Peg's Cantina serves awesome food, pretty good beer, and it has a nice outside seating area, although Gulfport isn't my favorite place to go. It'd be nice to go there for lunch. Cigar City also has their own food station area now where their merch used to be near the front entrance called the...

My husband had a sabbatical in April, and him and I first spent 2 days in VT whilst visiting my family in CT. We hit up the Alchemist, Hill Farmstead and Warren General Store to get us some Lawson's Finest Liquids. We ended up with the Double Sunshine IPA. We ended up staying in Burlington to...

I don't understand how so many women don't like the smell of brewing. It's like... fresh baked goods.. and then the hops. I love the smell of brew day. However, that was quite rude and inconsiderate of her. You should have brewed anyway. She's your wife, not your mother, and she needs to...