Recent content by tailleur

I recently bought a smack pack of 2112 to brew a red ale. I broke the seal on the smack pack and let it sit overnight. It swelled nicely. The next day I added 4 oz of light DME to 16 oz of water, boiled and cooled it, aerated it and added the yeast for a starter. 3 days later there had been...

Have you had any luck finding a sampe recipe? I've been searching also to the point of tracking down a distributor in St. Louis(i live in Springfield, Mo). Probably need to make a trip up there just to get a beer. I even emailed Jon Van Dyck and he said "isnt part of the fun experimenting and...

I loved Little Kings. I actually have a cream ale in the carboy right now though it is a Genesee clone. I'm reading about Lemp Brewery from St. Louis at the moment which produced Falstaff. That is a tragic story... I'll have to research everything everyone posted now...

I think it's sad and fascinating what our country went through during prohibition. But if it wasn't for that and the rise of the mega breweries, we would not have the diversity of beer we have today. I would love to find a list of breweries still open today that survived prohibition. I know of...