Recent content by Pilgarlic

If Final Round isn't "in the ballpark", I don't know what might be.

"Wert". But I respect your right to be wrong.

Flanders Red went through with 44.5, Bronze, Nashville.

An earworm. I'll spare you and keep it to myself.

Agreed. And they're ubiquitous.

A new LHBS, with or without BMW's employees, will likely be undistinguished without BrewBuilder.

Why this obsession with brewing? Why ask why?

I'd be concerned. It's defying gravity. Does it smell good? If so, I'd not be concerned. Edit: Actually, the yeast and crud adhering to the side of the flask below the surface would concern me more than what I see at the top. The crud on the sides suggests to me the flask might not have been...

It's about the beer, not the gear. My standard reply to your to this recurring question is "what does your beer tell you needs improvement"? Start there. It may suggest an equipment fix, and it may not, but it will point you toward improving your beer rather than adding to your equipment collection.

Not wanting to shatter any illusions, here, but "Corporate Beer Still Sucks" is commercial speech: an advertising/branding/marketing slogan. It's there, along with the whole anti-beer establishment vibe, because it sells beer. If it hadn't sold beer, it would have gone away. Call advertising...

Elysian is (or was, if you wish) a "rock star" brewery, and Dick's a "rock star" brewer. There's a thing about rock stars. Their fans tend to idolize them, identify with them and generally take them much more seriously than the rock stars take themselves. See David Buhler's quote in the "All...

I wish I knew a way to migrate my recipes off of their database.

The "craft" beer world has gotten too big and diverse for the word "craft". In time we will develop a reasonably consistent nomenclature for distinct types of beers and brewers under the "craft" umbrella. Until we do, "craft" brewers and "craft" consumers with little or nothing in common will...

I've been brewing for four years and haven't referenced Palmer's book in two. I do own many brewing books, several of which I go back to for reference routinely: "Wild Brews", "Brew Like a Monk", "Brewing with Wheat", "American Sour Beers" and "New Brewing Lager Beers", mostly. Others on...

O2 whenever I use liquid yeast.