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Wow peole can get catty, I'm not insulting your religion or peeing on your diety.I'm NOT against hop forward beers, I'm against BAD beer. I'm not anti-fad , I'm anti BAD beer. Companies are changing there recipies and brewing 6 kinds of ipas. It's all due to this stupid "hop mania" crap. I brew...

I'd love to be able to help out, I'm actually working on getting in with a local club just for group buys. If im good for 50lb bag + every year it'd definately help them get a better deal. If your anywhere near chicago cake there is a huge HB community there, they do group buys and I'm sure...

In this stae if you were to open a store that sold beer and wine consumption on site would be against the law, uless you were a bar. My LHBS is also a winery but beer onsite even homebrew is against the law. THere is kind of a spiders web of laws around alcohol and from google maine dosnt seem...

I can see the hops being good used in proportion in something like a pale ale, it might be good. I'm not against hop forward beers, I'm against beers that are ALL hops. If I can detect no taste other than bitter I hate it. I buy craft beers often and the new style of all hops and no character is...

I get what your laying out but they may well be wrong, you might get the right SG but your not gonna get the right flavor. There are always deals on mr beer variety packs on ebay, it might be worth a look

Well all I can say is good luck. Bussiness is rough, its up and down so much that sometimes you get a small steak other times you eating ol'roy. The only real way to exist is to keep a finger in all bowls and never commit the whole hand. Oprn a small storefront with plenty of storage and start...

HOLY COW! that bottom one is one massive drill... can I barrow it to go do some natural gas prospecting? But on a serious not those drills look great!

I didnt update yet but last night, I knocked togather what was supposed to be an irish red, but it came out deep brown, I think the recipie I poached from beersmith was a bunch of ca-ca. Tasted good though for unfermented wort. I'm knocking togather a braggot or graff tonight [prolly graff if...

I find it funny that everyone is going nuts over 2 hops that really only can be used in IPAs. I have smelled and felt whole leaf citra ans wasnt very impressed, it wasnt bad just kind meh. I guess it has to do with people trying to make hoppier and hoppier IPAs. I cant wait for this trend to...

I vote MLT and wait a couple weeks til everyon puts there turkey fryers on craigslist cheap... that way you can do both

I too am ruined, steeping grains and citrusy tastey hops.. its my houses new airfreshner 2x a week. A tip btw I have found that the propane burner on my grill gives more btus thatn my stove.. and can super speed up mash times

I have sample everything from angry orchard and woodchuck. Angry wins hands down

Just started playing with brambling cross, I like it alot

I second all the harbor feight suggestions, I havent seen one of there electric tools break, and the chicago line is an unconditional replacement warranty. I wouldnt use them on a jobsite but crush grain yeah I sure would

Well if she likes same adams just get a clone recipie, That way you will have a stock of her favorite beed and can buy some craft brews for her to try different styles. My latest ex loved a friends homebrew cream ale. It had a mid 20s ibu, lactose, and strawberrys and blueberries in the...

Yeah its a common mislabeling mead is infact honey wine. I second getting the wife involved in a fun way, not the drudgery of stirring the mash but maybe in something easy like weighing the grains and adding hops at the right times. Ladies seem to be more intrested in the precise parts like...

including hops maybe 4 bucks a gallon, buying in small amounts, even less if I find a beer style or beers with simmilar styles and buy hops and grain in bulk [10lb bags of malt and pounds of hops. I think at income tax time im finally gonna spring for a grinder, 50lb bag of 2 row, 10 lbs bags...

I forgot to add that glassware for beer styles is really only indecitive of the regions glass making technology at the time. Tankard chalice or nonic are kind of the standard types. Get chalices if you want to be fancy, nonics if you want a pub feel, and tankards if you want a dive bar feel. I...

I have a pilsner, chalice, beer mug, elcheapo stien, and my personal favortie is my english "no nick" glass [i've heard some call it a propeler glass]. I pain a buck each for all but the stien, it was 10 bucks at a german festival, full of beer. Sam adams has to have the coolest designed pint...

I dont but it might help to let the guys here know what you have to help, or you could make a crapton of SmaSH beers, Im finding I like them the best. I had a 2row and EKG beer that I loved and almost cried when I was down to one bottle