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Haymarket Brewery is downtown. Their beers are decent. Revolution Brewing has a nice taproom/restaurant. Halfacre is great but there's no real place to sit and drink their beer. Go up there and take the tour on Saturday then drink their beer at Fountainhead or Bad Apple (great burgers...

I'm trying to learn more and more about hops. IPAs bittered with Warrior seem to have the same astringency that, to my palate, is very off-putting.

No way to completely avoid them when drinking, but I can definitely minimize the damage on big nights out by the following: 1) Take a multi B vitamin before drinking. Bonus - your pee will glow 2) Try to at least have a couple glasses of water while you're drinking. 3) Take an antacid and a...

From my experience, it's no big deal. I let pretty much all my beers sit in the primary for a month w/ no issues of autolysis. According to Mr. Palmer, if you have any autolysis, you know.

A couple votes echoing sentiment already stated: New Orleans - constant party in the Quarter (I'm not a fan). But, they have an incredible cocktail culture. I've been a lot of places, but New Orleans takes the cake for having dive bars accustomed and not put off by a patron ordering a...

I split a bottle of it with a friend while visiting the Green Dragon in Portland. It was not for me, but appreciated the attempt. My buddy really liked it. I'd suggest anyone considering it to just get one bottle.

Northcenter here. I'm darn close to Brew Camp. Guys there are great. Prices are as low as the bigger Brew & Grow (which I like too). It's a great beer neighborhood with Half Acre Brewery, Fountainhead, and Bad Apple. West Lakeview liquors and Armenetti's are a couple blocks away too.

For a great beer selections, I'd also recommend Fountainhead and Bad Apple. The bonus of Bad Apple is they have great burgers too. If you're in the area of Fountainhead and Bad Apple (Northcenter), you can also swing by one of Chicago's cooler local breweries, Half Acre. All are within a...

Oh man. This made me laugh. While I definitely love my homebrews and great beers from around the world, I don't consider myself a beer snob. I have no problem throwing back a couple Buds at a ballgame. Note - I don't really enjoy them. But it's part of being at a ballpark, tailgating, etc...

I give mine a whirl in the dishwasher on the sani cycle w/out using soap. After the bottles cool from the dishwasher cycle, I fill my fermenting bucket with a few gallons of water and StarSan. I dip and fill them about half way with StarSan solution, swirl around, then empty that back in the...

I'm probably a week or 2 away from bottling my first 3 gallon batch of cider. I tried a really good French cider from 2008 (Etienne Dupont). It was only 5% abv and was unpasteurized. Since it was unpasteurized and a low abv, I'm assuming they let it fully ferment out all sugars and bottle...

I was just on the Polarware site as I'm considering a new brew kettle. Low and behold I just saw this "party barrel". At 31", I think it'd fit a 6.5 carboy with airlock would totally fit. You could probably drop a couple bottles of frozen water in there for a nice chamber. I wish I hadn't...

Reiner - the thought process behind pasteurization in the dishwasher is to kill any active yeast to prevent bottle bombs in the sparkling cider. The original pasteurization of the apple juice is to kill any nasties in it prior to you drinking it.

I’ve been reading and reading the various threads about cider and have a couple things I’d like clarified by those who have done this a few times. I have 3 gallons of organic UV treated farmer’s market cider going in a 3 gallon better bottle. OG was 1.05. I added some pectic enzyme, waited...