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Guy had a helluva ride. RIP madman 😢

HB Peanut Butter Stout (was going to be a coconut stout, but decided to switch it up). Tastes great -- that Brewers Best extract is amazing!

Hey @odie, did you ever get around to comparing the syrups you made to the actual CandiSyrup.com ones? Or use them in any beers?

For warm-fermenting lagers (say with 34/70, or S-189)... Is that only advisable with a fermenter than can hold some pressure? With frozen jugs of water and a cool basement, I can keep my fermenting beers between 62 and 68 pretty well (tho it definitely isn't held too steady). Don't have any...

If you go (before they get their website up), can you look into grain prices?

Went to an asian supermarket in St Paul to get more palm sugar, for a re-brew of a tropical stout that turned out so nice, I've got to make it twice.

Emailed the owner about exactly which grains they carry, got a prompt reply:

For my last 2 hoppy beers, I've done what MaxStout does: mixing up a priming solution, adding the ascorbic acid and k-meta to that, and then dumping it into the fermenter and giving it a gentle stir, then bottling directly from the fermenter's spigot. Still early, but it seems to be an...

I've made 5 different small-batch variants of this beer, and my main conclusions are: Citra hops taste sweet (to me, anyways), no matter what else is going on. LODO techniques (yeast+sugar in the strike water, dry-hopping without opening the fermenter, ascorbic acid/k-meta at bottling, and...

You just need to invite someone over... "hey man, you gotta taste this beer, it turned out so good!" Poof: keg will spit out a half-ounce of foam and then she's done -- guaranteed!

Bottled 2.75 gallons of 6.0% chocolatey stout, that was GONNA be dosed with coconut extract, but switched it up, and instead used up the last of my Brewers Best Peanut Butter extract.

So Rogers is a fair ways from "the twin cities", but if one was already in say Maple Grove, it's only like another 10 minutes drive up I-94. And now it's got a pretty darn nice Home Brew Supplies store! Owner was friendly, they've been in biz exactly 31 days. Shop was well lit, and very clean...

Just saw this on Reddit, and as luck would have it, work is taking me to Rogers tomorrow -- gonna pop in and check it out. The website doesn't have any product info other than listing some yeast. https://www.mnhomebrew.com/

HB Tropical Stout 7% abv, 40 ibu. I bottled half as-is, and for the other half, I added some coconut extract (McCormick's). This one is with coconut. Slightly bummed, because I just brewed my usual coconut stout recipe like 10 days ago, and it's never been as amazing as THIS beer has turned out...

Well I'm a complete newb at pale, hoppy beers, but I've fallen in love with: 90% briess brewers malt 9% briess munich 10L 1% flaked wheat og: 1052-ish, fg: 1011-ish, ibu: 37-ish cascade @60 and @15 citra @15 and dry-hop yeast: S-04

Bottled 2.6 gallons of Cascade/Citra pale ale, that somehow went from 1055 down to 1005 on 3rd-generation S-04 yeast... Sample tasted (and smelled) really nice. Not sure what happened to make it drop that low, software was expecting 1011-ish. Mash was normal (151F, 60 minutes), must've been...

My wife just told me I need to figure out how to make seltzer-slushies, like the one she had the other day at a local brewery, so I'm subscribing to this thread. But that $300 price an initial google search seems to indicate is a non-starter :( Maybe I can run a bunch of ice cubes through the...

Gotcha, that will be workable then! Definitely get something smaller! Something around 150% of the size of your batches, but definitely under 200%. Also, I will just argue that "half-size" (2.5 to 3.0 gallons)* batches are pretty great, because almost every recipe you see here is aimed at "5...

I think you will really struggle to fit even 16 ounces of grain in that tiny kettle for a mash, and trying to make that work for anything more than just enough base malt to convert the few ounces of unmalted adjuncts (like flaked oats/wheat/etc) is likely to be highly frustrating, and very...

Haven't had Hamms since college, but I remember it being decent. The (cheap/lousy) beer that has scarred me forever (also during college days) involved a drunken campout on a small sandbar island in the middle of the Mississippi river near LaCrosse WI. Our buddy's boat wouldn't start the next...