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Cool. I haven't been to a PALE meeting since May or June. Too many personal conflicts because of my wife's involvement with our kids' school. I will definitely be at the Jan meeting as I brewed a Brown Porter and a Dark Lager for competitions. It's hard to say on the long term hops taste from...

Are you a member of PALE? Dry hopping is an art form in and of itself. I usually don't dry hop for more than 2-3 weeks depending on the recipe. My next IPA (a Pliney clone) has a bunch of hops for a week in primary and then a bunch of hops for two weeks in secondary. As for the aroma, I...

If you are bottling, you gotta filter somehow. I triple filter by a) placing dry hops in a hop bag while dry hopping, b) place a hop bag over the racking cane, and/or c) passing my beer through a funnel and filter while transferring to a bottling bucket. It's helped TREMENDOUSLY! Additionally...

Are dried Heather Tips available? I'd do a simple recipe and use the Heather in combination with some very light hops. Actually, I have a Rose Hips Blonde Ale coming up on the schedule and it's just a simple Blonde recipe with 1.0 oz of Willamette for bittering and 1 oz Rose Hips the last...

I think 05 would be fine. I used Windsor yeast and the early results are fine, but a little sweet (1.027 AFTER a second packet of Windsor). Was aiming for the 1.022-024 range.

Decided to pop a bottle after a week+ of carbing... winner! Still needs some time but damn enjoyable.

Shipment received! That was quick. Thanks again for the deal

Just took some NyQuil. Hope I am still awake when the site gets fixed. I have about 10-12 hops I was going to order.

Yep, can't connect either =(

Really? I just moved my Munich Dunkel with SF Lager from 55 to 68 after it went from 1.050 to 1.022. Looking for it to clean up diacetyl issues by completing it's ferment in the warmer environment. I pitched on friday at 65 and moved it to 55 after about 6 hours. Took another 12 hours for any...

Sounds like Midnight to Midnight is a great idea. Will set my alarm. Will you post a list of the hops and prices in advance?

I brewed this a week ago. OG was 1.064 for 5.1 gallons and I've been stuck at 1.027 all week. Pitched some more yeast two days ago, but nothing has happened or it's just gonna be a very slow ferment. Will leave it in primary for another week and then cold crash it in my garage before bottling...

Having the same problem with Danstar Windsor yeast right now. My Milk Stout started at 1.064 and is just not moving from 1.027. Been swirling my bucket all week to get it going, but looks like I might need to pitch some more yeast to get it at least down to 1.020 and ideally a notch below that.

Do you mix your various grain before running through the mill? or do you crush each separately and then mix? I just bought my first grain mill and I'm wondering what the standard protocol is.

There are several groups in and around the Chicago area. I'm a member of a Plainfield/Naperville/Aurora group called PALE (http://www.palebrewers.org/). There are several members of HBT in this group and we meet once a month at Limestone Brewery in Plainfield.

What do you think of the following two ideas?

Welcome from Naperville!

So here is exactly what happened. First, I selected the FNL hop pack and placed that in my basket. Next, I went to the hop pellet page and added 6-7 individual hops to place into my basket. When I submitted the individual hops I was given a Database error page. I returned to the previous page...

Needed a variety of hops at a decent price and thus just submitted my first order to Farmhouse. Pretty good pricing as I don't need massive quantities on hand. Only problem I had was some sort of database error that kept adding extra quantities to my basket and also kept deleting items from my...

Yeah dude. Got the fonts and the 30's style pinup girls. Will try to shoot you something soonish.