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I am sure this has been discussed on here, but I haven't looked and I figure it is easier to just ask. I have never used lager yeast before and I am making norther brewer's biere de garde and it comes with wyeast California lager yeast. It ferments 'steam' style around 63 F, but my question is...

Seriously if you have never put sliced up lil smokies in your blue box Mac and cheese, do yourself a favor and make it tonight.

Anchor steam ATM, but gonna work through a series of IIPA's while I brew one

5434+5= 5439 Heating my water for an imperial ipa

I know there are a lot of red beer fans around here, any fans of a few green olives in your yellow fizzy. This was a go to drink at an OTB I used to frequent.

Valentine beers were a chimay blue and an ommegang adoration, currently drinking a widmer dark saison. Very good V-day.

Red skin hot dogs! Are you kidding me? Now that is a guilty pleasure! I can give you a few food guilty pleasures that everyone can agree with *cough* lil' smokies in mac n' cheese *cough*. I go with a supersonic breakfast burrito from sonic on most hangover days. To me guilty pleasures (beer...

Just thought I would add that my first hop spider was made with PVC, straight out of BYO magazine. The heat and steam coming out of my keggle warped the PVC ring and the hop bag slid right off into the boil. Yet another RDWHAHB moment...

You could drill into the stand and use a cheap tap and die kit to thread the holes. With threaded holes you can screw in some half ring mounts and have that hold up your plumbing. This is how we mounted the conduit and gas pipe plumbing on my Brutus, and tap and die kits are super cheap at...

Also cost was under $20

I use the Shirron plate chiller and had similar clog issues before I built my spider. Mine is made with metal ducting you can find at lowes or home depot, three 6" bolts, six nuts, and a pinch clamp to hold a paint strainer bag on the end. I have used a hop bag in the past and it didn't work...

Imperial IPA Friday, getting my yeast started Wednesday, love the prep for brewing on weekend...anticipation makes the week much better.

Not sure what you already have, but my total cost was around 2k. The keggles were around 100 for 3 kegs and another 50ish a piece for the conversion kits which could have been done cheaper. My pumps were approx 100-150 a pop. Honestly if I could do it over again I would have got the Lowe's...

Digital read outs and other such stuff came from www.coleparmer.com, and a few things came from amazon.com and northernbrewer.com. Heat from my HLT never really gets to my control panel, but my jet burner is up to close to get a true jet. My burner is dropped down more under my boil kettle and...

Congrats on stepping your game up!!! Below is the one I built with my brother (about 2.5 month-long project). Getting it dialed in, and having a flawless brewday on your Brutus is incredibly gratifying.

Sriracha! Better put some red roster on that $hit!

I agree that you shouldn't tell non-brewers, or brewers for that matter, to bring beer to a party. You can advise them to bring beer they would like if they aren't going to like your selection, but as a party host you should man up and have beer available for your guests. Learn some etiquette...

I gave my boss a witbier and he told me he liked it "it tasted like fat tire!" Had a coworker say he didn't like lagers because "they taste too hoppy" I always hear "you make your own beer? Doesn't it make you sick?" My favorite response to that last one is "only if you drink too many, but...

Temperature control during fermentation! My beer went from 2/10 being good to 9.9/10 being good with a Johnson controller and a used fridge off of Craigslist.

Velvet Rooster, canned tripel by tallgrass brewing