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My go-to for sours was the sour mash using some grains for lacto, it wasn't bad, but probably not as clean as the Omega, which I hear great things about and may have to break down and buy... I have made a few other sours, "true sours", and just dumped bottle dregs into a us-05 fermented batch...

I hate that as well. Even in the craft dense area I live in, they're trying to sell their average IPA bombers for like $8-10 each... The only sixers they sell are their bland and boring stuff to me. My original thoughts were that it's just a more labor-intensive process for a local brewery to...

I fail to see how so many people are drawing so much from so little.

"The Richmond staff has been minimally impacted by Stone’s recent restructuring."

I fully agree with what they're doing too, if it's what it seems: Cutting to increase growth, I just didn't want to sugarcoat it, haha. I'm fully aware they are tough decisions I likely wouldn't be able to do myself, that's likely why they brought in a new CEO, he doesn't have the personal...

Man, craft brewers are a fickle bunch. They don't want big beer to take over, but when one of the largest true "craft" breweries shakes things up with a new CEO and a small amount of layoffs to remain competitive, they turn their backs. They want the new and weird with the hype, not the ones...

I just used it in mine the other day. I also used Notty, and got plenty of compliments. I actually didn't add any apple juice concentrate to mine as it was already plenty sweet for most people's liking, and was a little heavy on the cinnamon. It didn't have as much of the caramel taste...

This has probably been my best received beer yet. Made it for my wedding open house party and killed a keg in a day, my fastest yet. Got a lot of compliments on it. This is just my style for a pale ale: Sweeter citrus hop profile. Easy drinking. I think it was better fresh off the dry hop, less...

I've done espresso and basic old folgers, both cold brewed in a french press at bottling and both were great.

You're not familiar with the type he's talking about. It takes a tool like the one discussed in the linked thread. I bought a set of S type sankes and they came with a unthreading tool as well as a spear safety catch remover. It is very similar, except I put a dime in the valve to thread the...

I'm actually kind of over this one. The last few versions have always seemed "muddy" tasting and it never really gets better with age. I made a different milk stout for a Chai version and it had a lot cleaner edge too it. The flavors in this one seem to blend too much into an odd taste. It's not...

Agreed on the lack of tartness. Mine seems just kind of like drinking passionfruit juice. Kinda thinking I should have left the coriander in the base recipe.

Theres a group in LA too, el segundo has tons of IPAs, smog city has everything, monkish, phantom carriage. I never really get to those, I like the OC stuff a lot better, and its closer.

Golden road is pretty boring, and not just because its ABInBev. There are plenty of other places, but not really in that area (that I know of), I'm more on the Orange County side. If you like IPAs, Noble in Anaheim is killin it. Theres like 5 other breweries within 5-10 mins from Noble if you...

Mexican markets are the place to get it, I had to go to a few to find it. I think it needs to stay frozen to keep from spoiling.

Mine is in the kegerator carbing up. I omitted the coriander, and am debating if it was a good choice or not. I used 2 packets, after driving to 5 stores to find the stuff. 2 isn't overpoweringly fruity, but not as tart as I remembered. Or maybe not as crisp. Still need to give it a try full...

I have a trager Lil Tex I got used that I love. It's been pretty good to me. It's the easy bake over of smokers.

Stop being lazy :) I did extract for awhile and it's not hard to do it right. Fermcap, pour slowly, watch the boil until hot break, keep an eye on it after, etc. I did 6.5 gal boils in a 7G kettle for years as well. A bigger pot won't be your silver bullet either, i've had boilovers in a 16 gal...

Should be fine, id just bring it to room temp before pitching

Great, thanks for the info!