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Cracked open a gingerbread porter tonight. Delicious! Had to share it with my wife and she loved it too. It was the red waxed top, is there a difference between that and the green tops? Also, after seeing everyone's professionally packed boxes, I'm hoping my hillbilly packing made it safely...

We also toured Odell, went down the road to the other brewery, then hurried back to Odell. I liked the beer, the atmosphere, and the people much better.

Honey Ginger IPA is zooming towards all of you! Look for tracking numbers by the end of the day.

I just made an English IPA with 2# honey. I added mine as soon as the krausen began to die down, 4-5 days in. I mixed it into a little warm water to make it easier to pour, but that probably isn't necessary. I've read that heating honey changes flavors, and honey naturally doesn't carry any...

The label that my wife made for my honey ginger ipa.

Draygon, count on a few beers from me. Send a few back my way when you can. If you can't, we'll it sounds like you could use some beer so consider it a Christmas gift!

An update on Honey Ginger IPA On my original brew day, which I posted a few pics of here, a friend stopped by and wanted to learn and help. A long story short, i was distracted and missed some times on my hop additions, scorched the LME in the bottom of the boil kettle, and was just not careful...

Spent hops

Honey ginger ipa in the works!

The beer turned out great! Good chile heat and flavor after 3 days in the secondary. I even used the beer soaked chiles in enchiladas after. Carbonation is good but not what I expected with the amount of priming sugar. Not really much head, maybe a quarter inch that dissipates quickly. Really...

For me, Hevelius Kaper and Warka Strong during a semester abroad in Poland. But back in the states, it was back to BMC. Then a couple years ago I started drinking beer from O'dell and that is what made me swear off BMC for good. Well, mostly. I still tip one back on rare occasions.

So I've just poured a glass after work and I am pleased! No head at all, but nice sharp carbonation. Hopefully it will develop a bit more in the next week. Great "green" aroma. Not of young beer but green as in fresh vegetable, slightly citrusy. Smooth drinking, refreshing with good bitterness...

Plan on cracking a bottle on Sunday to check carbonation. It sat on roasted chiles for 2 maybe 3 days. I was planning on longer but when I pulled a sample it had plenty of that veggie-lime pepper taste and a good amount of heat. Primed it for 2.6 volumes co2 to make it a nice lively beer, also...

Made a beer from the leftover bits of previous batches. what style would you put it in? here is the recipe: http://hopville.com/recipe/1604999 can't find a style match on hopville. was going to secondary the whole thing on some roasted green chiles, but i liked the hydrometer samples so...

So I made an extract beer from misc ingredients i had laying around leftover from precious batches with the intention of adding some New Mexico green chiles to secondary. Recipe here. After fermentation, it was so good, I decided to bottle half and add chiles to the other half. After two days, I...

So I pitched the entire 2L starter and by the next morning there was fierce activity, so the yeast was good! In fact, good thing I used a blow off tube. Missed my OG though, because I was sloppy about my boil volume. On the positive side, I'll have extra beer!

When you have to change your passcode at work and you change it to the FG of the batch you just bottled

So I am brewing today. Two 5 gal batches cause it's my birthday and I got a bunch of new gear. First batch is a Fuller's ESB extract clone. Second is a dump of ingredients from past brews and some stuff I grabbed from the LHBS this morning. Pilsen DME, Golden LME, crystal 80, biscuit malt. Hops...

The yeast packs were not cold, even though NB ships with ice packs, but the yeast packs weren't swollen either like some that i have received in hot weather. I'm going to give it a shot, worst that could happen is that I have to repitch right? I'll let you know how this turns out.