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Welcome to the thread! :mug:

Yes, I'm sure IPA was brewed in America in the distant past. When I started extract brewing 21 years ago, I couldn't go into a local liquor store in Delaware and buy anything other than a mass-produced light lager. I used to go on club road trips to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Stoudt's in PA...

Was it leaking while the CO2 was connected to the keg or after you removed it? If it's leaking while the CO2 line is attached, you can lose all of the air in your tank very quickly! It's not as big of a problem if it leaks only after disconnecting the air. A trick to stopping the post...

I just had a few Victory HopDevil IPAs this weekend. I fell in love with this beer many years ago when IPAs were new to this country. Now all these years later, I still think it's outstanding!

Any beer left in the keg would be fine. I wouldn't drink any at the bottom of the fridge, though. :cross:

If the beer out post was leaking, wouldn't the beer be in a big puddle at the bottom of the refrigerator?

Here's the one I just brewed. Going to tap it tonight! http://beersmithrecipes.com/viewrecipe/16624/saison

That's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. LOL!

Never been there, but I would checkout this brewery: http://roundguysbrewery.com/ This one, too: http://www.prismbeer.com/

I wrapped mine with reflective bubble wrap, but it melted a little around the bottom after applying fire to heat the mash.

One of my favorites is the Roy Pitz brewery in Chambersburg, PA. We have a campground membership in Gettysburg. Now every time I go camping there, I take a 40-minute drive west to their brewery tasting room! http://www.roypitz.com/wp/

Ditto! Ditto! I just judged my first competition as a novice and some of the beers were undrinkable! But, those were the EASY beers to score. It was much harder to judge the difference between good, very good & excellent.

I judged one category in the morning with one judge and another category in the afternoon with a different judge. The first judge was more willing to talk things over than the 2nd judge. But, the rule for all judge pairs was the scores had to fall within 5 points of each other for every beer...

That just goes to show it can happen to anyone. I can tell by all your comments that you are an excellent brewer.

That was one of the categories I judged. I hope I gave you a good score! :mug:

I'll bet it was the harvested yeast, too. Sorry to hear it! I judged my first homebrew competition in July and tasted a bunch of infected brews. Too many, in my opinion! I've been wondering what caused all those infected beers. Whether it was from bad harvested yeast, dirty bottles or...

Sure you can. I entered 2 beers. You just can't judge the same category that you entered. And I would imagine you couldn't judge Best in Show.

They had a good number of experienced & certified beer judges at the competition, but since there were about 300 beers to judge, they needed to recruit a few novice judges to help. I was one of only 3 judges with no prior judging experience. All of the novice judges were paired with an...

They followed BJCP mini-Best of Show Guidelines to for reconciling the placement of entries within a multi-flight category. http://www.bjcp.org/docs/MiniBOS.pdf In those cases, the score is not considered when the category placement is determined.

The results are up! http://battleofthebrews.webs.com/ Converted to PDF: http://firststatebrewers.com/wp-content/upload/2012/07/Results-2012-Battle-of-the-Brews.pdf