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I am actually having a glass of this right now. I really like it.

Trailhead Brewing Co. - St. Charles, MO Guinness - Dublin, Ireland Great Basin Brewing Co. - Reno, NV High Sierra Brewing Co. - Carson City, NV Sierra Nevada - Chico, CA Russian River - Santa Rosa, CA (1st Pliny I ever had) Lagunitas - Petaluma, CA Guinness is the only one I've really...

I'm trying to log all the beers that I've had on Pinterest. I've got three boards: Beers I Love, Beers I Don't Love, and Beers I Want to Seek Out.

I can't imagine bottling being a big enough PITA to use kegs that had been used to hold herbicides. Glyphosate may be one of the relatively safer herbicides to have been housed in there, but ones like 2,4-D and paraquat are not. Not to mention the possible use of insecticides which can attack...

Just finished brewing a Deschutes Mirror Pond clone. My first partial mash. Definitely a good learning experience. Now I just want to build a mash tun that much more.

All the talk about Pliny put me in the mood to crack open my last one. In September, I made the trip out to Santa Rosa to get a six pack of it. They say don't let it age, and I would have to say 5 months may have been a little long for this one. Its a great beer, but for my money, I'll take a...

I ordered a Bayou Classic SP10 turkey fryer on Amazon a couple weeks ago. It came without the shutter plate that goes on the burner, and I spoke with customer service to get one of those. Tonight I did the test run to burn the paint off. I put 6 gallons of water in my aluminium boil kettle...

I bought two cases of new bottles for about 12 bucks each to start out and collected bottles as I consumed them from that point on. Deschutes has awesome bottles, btw!

I hate to be unhelpful but isn't a large life event like moving (only) slightly more important than a batch of beer? I'd rather seal the fermenter up and hope for the best than bottle it early. If you took good notes, you can recreate the batch of beer for less than the cost of moving when you...

I picked up a folly sampler with Hoptober in it. While I don't necessarily agree that they are being dishonest in their advertisement, there isn't anything in the flavor that absolutely screams fall to me. I like it quite a lot, find it refreshing, and could drink it year round.

I'm brewing a Mirror Pond clone this weekend. I hope it is half as good as theirs.

I think one needs to re-evaluate their priorities if they are concerned about the beer they are drinking in the company of good friends. It has already been said: There is a time and place for every style of beer. I generally don't drink BMC at home, but more often than not, I do at the bar.

While I don't have a solution for your over carbonation, I wonder if the two bottles that blew may have had an air bubble in the glass causing a weak point. I always inspect for this and dispose probably one bottle per every 50 or so.

I put in a couple orders for partial mash kits at AHS (Pumpkin Ale and a Mirror Pond clone). I plan on using DeathBrewer's methods as posted in the Beginners Forum. Being a first time partial mash brewer, lacking a mash tun, etc., I have concerns that I may only get 45-50% efficiency (he says 70...

Of all the things I've read here, I've never seen the 'F-it let's see what I can get away with' approach. I like it. I think I'm gonna favorite this one. Let us know how it turns out.

I brewed two batches in an unoxidized aluminium boil kettle, and didn't think they were undrinkable. If you are using an extract kit, you may be able to ballpark your ABV with only a final gravity and by using the suggested OG ranges in the directions, but I wouldn't count on anything too accurate.

I think if you are brewing extract in the beginning, then Joy of Home Brewing is definitely the way to go. It gives great general information on all aspects of home brewing like ingredients, methodology, etc. Not to mention it makes home brewing a blast. If you want to go all-grain and know...

Revvy's bottling system is the way to go, but if you don't have a dishwasher to set up over and your sink is full, be sure to put a butter dish on the floor or counter while filling your bottles. Set your bottles inside the butter dish and it will catch all the overflow. I always start out...

I have conducted research using vermicompost and animal waste compost in vegetable production. Since B-Hoppy provided a publication that gives the carbon to nitrogen ratio of the spent grain, I can give a little information as to what is going on and maybe a couple pointers. Microbes utilize...

If you have a copy of Windows on hand, you can install VirtualBox and run Windows on a virtual machine. It is a little sketchy for games because you are allocating ram, video memory, etc, but anything that doesn't require video drivers works great. You can also copy and paste text between...