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No, not taste. Just smell. At first, I'd assumed that I'd gotten some kind of wild yeast into the wort for fermentation. Cool, if unrepeatable. But, nope. Doesn't taste sour in the slightest. In fact, if anything it tastes too bloody sweet. Which is weird in it's own right, as the wort...

Awesome news! WoodlandBrew, your setup is almost exactly what I'd envisioned. The only issue I have right now is that I only have one large pot which I can put on direct heat, hence the use of my bucket for one vessel. The more I think about it, though, the more convenient a second kettle...

I've been at this long enough (and drank the last bottle of my first brew last night... I think I understand "extract twang" now!) to want to take the plunge into all grain brewing. Complicating matters is my budget (still in grad school, so not much cash to splash around) and looming move to...

Such a great series! I know about the miniseries, but figured that I would give it a pass (didn't have cable, still don't). Just so happens that I was house sitting for some family friends (who did have cable, probably still do) when... oh hey, what's this? I think it was a repeat, though...

Went down to the local pub to watch the Civil War. Got into the Oakshire: a pint of an apparently-nameless chocolate porter they've got out now, followed by a a bomber of their Black Jack Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter. I kid you not, and it was good. Then the Beavers lost, so I came home...

Beer-wise, I'd be happy with a couple 10 gallon coolers and some fittings to jump to all grain brewing. Oh, and a grain mill. And a stir plate with ginormous Erlenmeyer flask. Maybe a conical and a nice old fridge to use as a fermentation chamber. Also: A PSA receiver and a handful of 30 round...

You absolutely can. You can also taste sweet doughnut and maple, and the pork half of bacon. But you are absolutely correct that there is far too much smoked malt in it. The grain bill included three smoked malts (Breiss cherrywood, Weyermann beech, and house-smoked hickory). Two-row and Munich...

Drank it last night. Pretty sure that I agree with you on that. It felt like I was drinking one of my favorite pipe tobaccos... liquid smoke, with only the tiniest hint of maple or bacon.

Right now, let's see... A lot from Deschutes: -The Abyss 2011 -The Abyss 2012 -Black Butte XXIII -Black Butte XXIV -The Dissident 2012 -Jubelale 2012 Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA Elysian Great Pumpkin Lucky Lab Triple Threat IPA Ninkasi ImperiAle Rogue Voodoo Maple Bacon Sierra Nevada...

Holy crap! And here I thought that was one of the selling points for plastic fermenters! I just brewed a brown something or other. As my signature says, it was supposed to be a Tumbler clone, or at least something resembling at least a first cousin. I think it might turn out to be more like...

I found a bottle of The Stoic by Deschutes a couple days ago that I forgot I had. So I drank it. :)

I am! Looking to make a brown ale, sort of like Sierra Nevada Tumbler. Hopefully I'll actually have time...

Growing up, my dad used to always drink Hamm's and Coors. Did wonders to turn me off of beer for a good long time. Deschutes Cinder Cone Red (the old formulation, not the one they used the last time it was brewed). Supporting cast came from New Belgium Fat Tire and Widmer Bros. Drop Top Amber...

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that different shapes result in different experiences. Not sure how much of that is chemically provable, as opposed to mental bias, but hey... it's a great excuse to collect glassware, if that's your thing! I rather enjoy collecting stuff in general, and I have...

I think it might be more than four, but I've never bothered to make a study of it. There are currently five IPAs in the series, thought: Falconer's, O'Ryely, Shaddock, Spiced, X-114. X-114 and Shaddock seem to be available in my area, at least right now. I was up in Portland last night and...

Lobby. Lobby, lobby lobby. It really helps to have an active and economically viable business community behind the effort. That's how Oregon got started back in... 1986, I think? Small breweries lobbied the state legislature to change the laws to permit on-premises sales for consumption. The...

I'm loving this year's edition of Jubelale. Probably my favorite thus far, at least that I've experienced. Filled a growler with it at the Portland pub last weekend, all gone within days. So I just picked up a 24 pack at the local Costco and am well into it, as well!

I'll be moving to California next summer. Learning this makes me very, very sad. Being from Oregon, we have some of, of not the best beer laws in the nation: any brewery or brewpub can fill any container provided by customers for consumption off premises so long as it is closed, and holds two...

Not yet; this is all theoretical and based on what calculators tell me. This is definitely on my short list of things to try soon, though. But since I can't afford to run lots of experimental batches, I'm trying to get a little ahead of the curve if at all possible.

I'm actually not sure how to do that. I did test it out on some distilled water when I first started; it read one point high at that time. From what I know about BIAB, I could move to it; I'm set up with an eight gallon kettle for full boils. I can't get that up to mashing temps on my stove...