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Bumping for this year's festival. Beer list released over the weekend. Anyone else going? The wife and I got VIP tickets, so we'll be there for the early entry at 1pm!

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+5 esb = 10694

1078...I've broken two in 6 months :-(

I've only named two of my beers so far, since the others were all recipe kits, and I didn't feel right about naming those. I'm an artilleryman, so my beers so far have been artillery themed. Fire for Effect IPA and Charge 8 Imperial IPA. I have ideas for future beers like Willy Pete Wheat...

Assuming our floors get done tomorrow (putting in hardwood!) and everything gets moved back into place, I'm going to brew my ESB Saturday.

My wife is very supportive, like many of you. She's not a big beer drinker, and she's very particular about what she does drink, but doesn't mind when I brew something she doesn't like (which is most of the time). I did my first batch in the kitchen on the stove. She wasn't thrilled that I...

I've had a couple of batches come out over-carbonated. Both times, I followed the kit directions to the letter with priming sugar. My other beers I used a priming sugar calculator on have all come out perfectly carbed.

There are smaller stores scattered around the DFW area that have great bottle selections. In Flower Mound, for example, there's a gas station on Morriss Rd. that has over 100 different craft beers in bottles/cans. I imagine there are places like that in other parts of the area, too. Some...

For other places in Dallas to find beers... Lower Greenville has a few places that are worth going to again, I've found. The Blind Butcher and Dallas Beer Kitchen both have good selections of both local and non-local craft beer. The food at The Blind Butcher is pretty damn good too...

Texas Army National Guard, 2009-Present. Field Artillery. Thanks to all who came before, and those I serve with today!

For me, the Dallas area the must-trys are Lakewood Temptress (Imperial Milk Stout), Peticolas Velvet Hammer (Imperial Red Ale), Community Mosaic IPA, and Revolver Blood and Honey (American Wheat). Deep Elum, Franconia, Rahr and Martin House all each have good beers, too.

Right now I've got some Sierra Nevada Torpedo, a Widmar Nelson IIPA, some Magic Hat #9, a St. Bernardus Abt 12, and a Bourbon Barrel Aged Old Rasputin

I tried it last night. Great aroma and nice burst of hop flavor. I agree about brewing with Mosaic soon. I thought it was a little overly boozy for my taste, though. I'll probably give it another try soon, though.

Picked up a build my own 6-pack at the Smokestack, great place! Also picked up a couple of bottles of Two Hearted on the way to the Birmingham airport on my way out of town. Couldn't find any Hopslam, unfortunately.

Congrats! I was the same way with my first one. When it came out tasting great (with some mild fusel off-flavors from a hot fermentation), I was through the roof happy!

My first homebrew was thr Irish Red from NB. I fermented a little hot (78-80), so it had some fusel off-flavors, but it wasn't really that bad. I was just excited when it actually tasted like beer! I also have chlorominated water, so I just switched to bottled spring water from Wal-Mart...

I wanted to go to Untapped this weekend, but I have drill, so I'll be sleeping in the woods instead. Oh well, next weekend is the Greenville St. Paddy's parade, and I'll get to swap homebrew with a buddy.

The taproom at Four Corners in Dallas in open Sunday from 2-8pm. http://www.fcbrewing.com/

I got mine a couple of days after I ordered them. Hoping to bottle that batch this weekend, so I'll see how they do.