Recent content by Seanto

Any sugar will do this, but keep in mind you are effectively altering the the balance of the recipe and it will effect the flavor of the end product. I usually only add sugar to belgian beers to achieve a dryer end product. Point is, rather than add sugar to a perfectly fine recipe, i...

I believe you can't effectively "bitter" the beer in such a short time frame. Hops become more bitter the longer you boil them. With just a 15 min boil, i would imagine that you will get alot of hop flavor and aromatics, but not raw bitterness. But you can do variable times with your boil...

Honestly why are we even drawing attention to this ****ty beer? This is the type of thing i just ignore on the shelf. These days i honestly see just as many people grabbing a micro brew as i do **** like this. Just blogging about it is a waste of time. ..../beersnob

I don't think this is aimed at craft beer lovers at all. Looks more like its geared toward the college kids and macro "ice" drinkers. They can now buy a boosted alcohol "light" beer. No more no less. If it were geared toward us it would have some craft beer verbage thrown in there, like "Bud...

How about pouring cold brewed coffee in during the boil? Would that have any negative repurcussions? I feel like the coffee flavor would be more integrated into the beer that way...but i haven't tried it. Now about cold vs hot brew, i prefer cold brewed coffee usually, assuming i'm having...

So i'm having trouble finding the info i need while sifting through all the partigyle resources i've found on the web. Here's the facts: I'm making the Northern Brewer Belgian Triple kit, using my normal simple BIAB setup just as i would if i wasn't planning on reusing the grains. 10 gallon...

Just wanted to weigh in on whether or not this is a good business decision or not. From Dogfish's point of view, i'm surprised they didn't do this sooner. Think about it... You're currently brewing at maximum capacity and serving tons of market. You are not meeting the full demands of...