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I was out at Zero Gravity last week during my East Coast brewery tour (NorthEast Brewery Tour). I was shocked, just shocked, that I really liked Little Wolf, only to find out that it has Mosaic in it. I absolutely HATE Mosaic, but in Little Wolf--none of the flavor/presentation of Mosaic I...

A buddy of mine put me onto an interesting source, a top-100 brewery tour in the US. The author created an algorithm such that you could drive, using the most economical route (time wise) to visit all of them. Of course, whose list of top 100 one uses is somewhat individualistic, but if you...

Early on when I was exploring this, I looked for some of the German beers that are supposed to exhibit those characteristics. I couldn't find any. I drew the same conclusion you have--the only way I could figure out if HSA was a thing was to employ LODO techniques and see for myself. Lo and...

I've been doing LODO since...well, before this thread started. Trying to come up with a mash cap that fits my kettle and system. It finally dawned on me--I use a spike lid on top of my mash tun (it's not a Spike kettle, got the kettle for free, but no lid, so the Spike lid). But I could do...

I've never heard of this. I generally seal up my Spike with several points of gravity remaining and allow it to self-carb (similar to how a bottled beer carbs), and that works fine. Side benefit is it's virtually completely carbed at kegging. But occasionally I'll still ferment in my old...

And the ninth rule is no matter how much we counsel it, new brewers CANNOT be patient. :)

Weight AND balance, not just weight. I don't know the degree to which that's an issue on airliners, but I know that the difference between flying and not can be relatively few passengers. Once out of DFW in August it was so warm that they had to remove a few passengers from the flight to make...

Scariest thing ever

My son had a robobrew; hated it so much that it ended up being put on the curb. He then bought a Grainfather. He is incredibly complimentary about it. He'd get it again.