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Ah, you trust the 215 to really only take 10 minutes?! I didn't start homebrewing until after I moved to the Bay Area, but I have some friends who are still in Riverside and who are planning on getting into this hobby in the very near future. I know they were talking about ordering supplies...

Colton! I lived in Riverside for a long time, and though I live in San Francisco now, I still make it back to the IE pretty regularly. Welcome to the forums (from another newbie)!

When you're mortified to be seen even looking at Bud Light, let alone purchasing it, even though you're only buying it in order to test dry hops.

My apartment has the happy temperature for that yeast covered, but I definitely only waited three days after reaching FG before bottling. Oops! Next time, I'll be sure to give it a full seven. The bottles I have left have not been put in the fridge yet, so hopefully that means the smell...

Earthquake geophysicist here! But because studies on seismic hazard and ground motion have rather important implications for the built environment, I've worked with engineering seismologists/geologists, civil engineers, and structural engineers on things. I guess, if we're really going to...

Thanks for the quick answer and tips! I figured it'd be ok to bottle since FG had been reached, but I definitely hadn't even known to wait longer for hydrogen sulfide to get out of there. Is there a rule of thumb for how long to wait on this, or is it more a matter of giving the beer an...

Only one thing beer-related, but I'm excited about it! I may still only be a few months into this hobby, but I realize I've already been thinking of each batch as an experiment of different combinations/timing of ingredients, and I definitely am happy for all these tips in exploring...

Hope you don't mind me hopping in on someone else's troubleshooting thread, but I have a similar question, so! Yesterday, I tested (and shared) some of the dunkelweizen I brewed on Thanksgiving. My impression - which was also the consensus of my friends who tested it - was that it had a...

Whoops, missed this reply a few weeks ago, so sorry! I see the picture of the fruitcake wort on your Facebook page, but if there's an actual blog, I must have missed it. (Also, it's really cool that you do a demonstration brew day. To my knowledge, none of the San Francisco homebrew shops do...

I've never used UPrinting for beer labels, but I had them print up a bunch of custom calendars one year. They were responsive to questions, quick with printing, with high-quality print resolution on nice paper. My father, who is a professional graphic designer, also routinely has them make big...

42,461.5 + 3 IPA + 1 dunkelweizen = 42,465.5

1194 The tube it came in rolled right off the table before I could even open and sanitize anything. At least that meant the broken glass remained confined to said tube...

A huge massive unprecedented surprise, I know! (Or were you implying that you, too, are a Bay Area geologist-type? Right on!)

I brewed a 1 gallon all grain batch of dunkelweizen on Thursday evening. I pitched a third of a vial of WLP300 (first time using this yeast), at a temperature in the upper 60s. Extremely vigorous fermentation started within a few hours. So vigorous, however, that within about 18 hours of...

Oh dang, fruit cocktail? Peanut butter? That's off the charts levels of tinkering! I know I eventually want to experiment with adding external stuff to my beer, but I figure I should get more experience with the basic ingredients first. The fruitcake barleywine sounds really awesome, and like...

Oh man, that's definitely adventurous tinkering! I figure I'm going to wait to get more experience with just the basic ingredients before I start adding the likes of fruit or spices, but I'm already excited to try. Fruitcake barleywine sounds like an amazing thing to pull out at a holiday...

Hello all! I've been lurking around these forums and reading many many threads since I started brewing this September, but I figured I should finally post or something. Anyway! I'm a seismologist, and like many of my other geoscientist friends, I've taken that last step from enjoying beer...