Recent content by ismellweird

I 100% understand the advice you are giving but I think you'd need to know him. He's easy going and we always say "Fergus we know you better than you do" and he has always agreed. His wife from the little I know of her, it's the same thing. I know its hard to trust me, since you don't know me...

I definitely don't think I can brew his 21st amendment watermelon beer better than he can. Sorry if I came across that way. But lets say you have oranges all your life and then someone brings you something new, lets say a kumsquat and then suddenly you say "kumsquat is the new orange". You can...

Is this true? I have never had a truly fresh 21 amendment watermelon beer. Like right from the can or off the tap in their brewery. Maybe mine is as good or better. Why should I have fear of being outed, what would be coming out? I could try my switcharoo side by side with a fresh 21st and see...

We are close. He has a job at a cupcake factory and helps get me ingredients for brewing. We generally trade favors like this, so no harm being done. Well the brew day went well. At this point I’ve been brewing since roughly October and it’s amazing how good I’ve become in such a short time...

I’ve decided to go through with the brew for this wedding. The main problem you’ve identified here is that I can’t legally say watermelon is in the beer, so I will take the other guys advise and put a little in the mash and that should cover me from having committed a crime which I would like to...

Well no, I went to school with the caterer who is coordinating the beer so we're doing this as a surprise. Haven't been married myself but didn't see the harm in creating a better beer for him as a gift and eliminating the invoice. In fact I've managed to get the money refunded directly back to...

Thank you all for your feedback! I have a lot of respect for the years of experience you all have on here cumulatively and I am thankful that I am able to tap into it so readily here. HBT is a great resource. mell

I think this is a great way to handle it. However in this case (it’s a long story) my buddy doesn’t know I’m brewing the beer. He actually asked me specifically not to brew it because he didn’t want to put me to work. However we are in contact with the caterer and as a gift to him I am switching...

I agree, I think this would be the other way around. For example if I fail to mention there's watermelon in the beer and someone gets sick from an allergy, etc? Or I fail to disclose things like peanuts, common allergens? I really don't know. I'm not brewing this with a license, it's just a...

No, not at all. When someone describes coffee they often use terms like licorice, but that's not saying there's licorice in the coffee. My question is more abstract I guess. If I call it a watermelon wheat, am I really implying that there's physically watermelon in the beer? Does this even...

Hi HBT, My first time brewing a watermelon beer this Wednesday. I hear that watermelon can be tricky to do right. However I brewed a light beer using only mosaic hops and told my buddy it was my watermelon beer just as a joke, but he actually believed me and thought it was great. I'm going to...

Yes I am, a buddy is having a big wedding next month and I offered to brew the beer for the celebration. He declined, I think he felt bad to put me to work. I know the caterer so we are secretly not charging him for the beer and I am donating my brew into all the kegs. When everyone raves about...

No sorry, it sounds crazy, I know, but they can sit. It looks a little like a dog sitting. They don't really like to do it unless they're feeling really lazy, like when it's going to rain.

Cows are real smart, smarter than people know. After a while they learn their names, but the right way is to establish a word or phrase and teach all the cows. That way they can all be standing around in a field and you yell the word and they all start coming at the same time. Smart animals. I...

I'm envisioning that breakfast scene from Kingpin right about now. Finishing up a bowl of cereal and talking about milking the cow... but we have a Bull! Ooooh, WYSIWYG mell