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I forgot to mention, I intentionally left out the usual "bittering / aroma / dual-use" distinction. I got about halfway through the list with that information there and decided it's a little redundant. The alpha acid content is usually enough to tell you how to use it for bittering, and the...

So, whenever I'm researching a new recipe or looking for some interesting new hops to use, I can't help but notice that no one website seems to have a list of every single hop available today. There are some great resources out there, but none I could scan in a hurry and be sure to find...

Yeah, wow, that is incredibly inaccurate. Even if they ignore all of Belgium, there are plenty of other examples in the US. I hope that's just one sadly ignorant employee. It would be sad if Dogfish was really that unaware of the rest of the craft scene.

Lagunitas Sucks is out now. It's a really awesome IPA, actually. Gotta agree with everyone about Lagunitas' personality, they have a great sense of humor and I like when a company can poke fun at themselves. Review of Sucks here: Bear Flavored: LAGUNITAS SUCKS HOLIDAY ALE REVIEW

Very well done. Looks clean and professional.

You bottled after a couple weeks? Seems like you might be risking some bottle bombs, no?

Nice, I love the old artwork as a label. Something I'm playing around with myself, I think it works well. Cool to see there are homebrewers in Beacon too. My girlfriend lives nearby, so I'm there all the time. Actually thinking of moving there next year. Just a shame there aren't more bars...

Whoa. Shipping is a bitch, but... happy birthday to me.

This is one of the most unique, interesting beers I've ever had. Something to try if you want a crazy example of style-blending, or an example of a bunch of things that shouldn't work together but somehow do. Everything I've ever read says that bitter beers and sour beers don't go together, yet...

Rattle N Hum, Ginerman, Blind Tiger and such in Manhattan are all fantastic for selection, but I never go to any of them, because they are insanely packed and uncomfortable almost all the time. It's stressful and ridiculous. Just go to Brooklyn instead, the bars are better and cheaper...

That first one is seriously fantastic. Great job.

Okay, that's reassuring. I was just curious if there's any possibility that two bottles of Orval might not contain any living Brett. It seems unlikely, but there doesn't appear to be a good way to test its viability as there is with Sacc yeast. Which makes me worried. But again, it seems...

Random-ish question: when you bottle these 1 gallon batches, do you use a regular bottling bucket, or some kind of... mini bottling bucket? I always have trouble getting that last little bit out of the bucket, and with such a small batch to begin with, I'd worry about losing any of it.

Bumping this, I need some advice. Last night I made a small starter and pitched two bottles worth of Orval dregs. I don't plan on building them up a ton, I mainly just want to know if they're still viable. There's a relatively thick layer of yeast sediment at the bottom of the starter, but it's...

Thanks for the feedback. I'm definitely open to the idea of using a Wyeast packet instead of dregs, if people think that would be better. It'd be cheaper than multiple bottles of Orval. (I could also do a packet plus Orval; I already have one undrank bottle in my fridge.)

Looking to get some thoughts / advice on this. I'm thinking I'm going to try a Graff with Brett for my first sour. I'll probably do something similar to the original recipe in the Graff thread on this site, though I might go for a 50/50 split of cider / wort. My one caveat is that, every...

Actually, that didn't occur to me. Thanks. Forgot about our backwards American dating system. I was wondering how so much dust had collected on the bottle in a few week's time. Hopefully it'll be a nice mid-range between more advanced sour character for the benefit of my drinking and still...

I'm going to use some Orval dregs for a beer soon, so I've been going around NYC trying to find some older bottles of the stuff. Figure I want to get as much Brett character as possible. But everywhere I've look so far, the bottles are all from the 10/02/2011 batch, sadly. Guess every shop in...

Thanks! Good to hear. Guest posting sounds cool, I'm checking out that site now. A few pages back there was discussion of paying for hosting and whatnot. In case anyone is curious, my blog is hosted on Blogger, so it's totally free (except for the 10 bucks I spent buying the domain name.)...

Mine is www.bear-flavored.com (the name of my "brewery"). I review beers too, so there's more of that than homebrewing stuff so far. Hoping to expand with some more "editorial" type stories about the beer industry / breweries / bars eventually... or whatever else I come up with.