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I like to pick things up and put them down. I did powerlifting and strongman for about 15 years until tearing a biceps tendon doing a tire flip. I still lift weights or do cardio almost every day. I also have a touring motorcycle that I like to use for more than commuting to work whenever...

German or Czech pilsner to be ready for lawn mowing season. Love me one on the rocking chair on the porch after each mowing.

FWIW, this past weekend I bottled a 1.082 O.G. Citra/Amarillo/Cascade IPA. For my own taste, I like to overload the flavor/aroma with American hops and don't care about the bitterness so much, so I go with later additions. I went with .5 oz. of each at each addition - 40 min, 20 min, then...

154 + 6 Russian Imperial Stout 160

Today is my 3rd annual traditional New Year's Day big beer brew. First time was a smoked doppelbock. Last year was Wee Heavy. Today, Russian Imperial Stout.

Hefeweizen. I didn't like the clove. I finally brewed one of my own and am OK with it now. Same goes for IPA's. At one time I didn't care for bitter beers, but like many, my first brew was an APA. Now it's one of my favorites. I much prefer the American "C" hops over all others, though. In...

I have (twice) brewed a strongish pot of coffee, cooled it and added it to the bottling bucket with good results. I was going for in-your-face coffee flavor and achieved it.

Usually 3. Sometimes 4, sometimes 2. Depends on the style and/bottle size, also. I almost never have 2 of the same beer in one day. I always try to enjoy them, not just consume them.

What I think deserves to be called a craft beer: Something Martha Stewart boiled in a copper kettle on a tripod over an open fire with home-grown barley and hops. What I think the non-beer enthusiast calls craft beer: Anything that is not a pale lager produced by the big three.

You wonder why Cascade doesn't make a grapefruit and pine scented dishwashing liquid.

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Marzen. Of course I'll be eating barbequed something or other every day then, too.

Since the Steelers are playing Monday night, I'm free today. Got a BIAB rauch ale with cherry and hickory home smoked malt mashing right now. It smells like there's a ham in the oven. Good times.

I have this printed out at home and at work. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and...

It's not what it's not.

I don't always brew lagers, but when I do, I prefer WLP 838. Quick, clean and clear.

Exactly. I just sampled my rauchbier made with 100% Weyermann rauchmalt. What a disappointment. It tasted much like dry Cheerios. Since the time I brewed this, I have bought a smoker. I have re-smoked the Weyerman's with apple and hickory for an amber ale and today's brew will be a brown ale...

My first time dry hopping I cleaned and boiled some stainless steel bolts to put in the hops bag to weigh them down in the secondary. After bottling the batch and retrieving the bag from the carboy I noticed the bag was very discolored. When I opened the bag I found that my stainless steel bolts...

SpeedYellow, I took your advice and ordered the book Smoked Beers. However, I also brewed a smoked amber ale yesterday using my oak re-smoked rauchmalt. It smelled and tasted awesome, so I went with it. BIAB partial mash @ 154 5 lbs. Weyermann rauchmalt 2 lbs. oak re-smoked Weyemann...

Well here it is 3 years later and I'm about to give it a go. My electric smoker is warming up. I recently got a 55 lb. bag of Weyermann rauchmalt. I made a rauchweizen with 7 lbs. of rauchmalt and it wasn't smokey enough. Then I made a 100% rauchmalt rauchbier which is in the primary right...

Oops. WLP 838, that is.