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I used this for a saison and I was underwhelmed. I felt it had too much banana, and not enough of anything else. If I remember correctly, I ramped the temp into the lower 80's to finish the beer. I only fermented for two weeks, however it was done right around 1.010 from a 1.055-ish wort. It...

I am laughing out loud now, knowing that the last time I fell from a building (with a bungee cord) I screamed like a little girl.

Didn't most women of the time have a crush on Eddie Vedder? That's the way I remember it anyway.

Self closing taps can be purchased online. A simple search for them brought me to kegworks, a website that had self closing taps for sale.

Flaked wheat needs to be mashed with another malt to utilize the enzymes. It may be a better idea to just use 8 lbs or so of wheat DME/LME, that way you don't have to worry about the flaked wheat. Just my two cents. When I did specialty grain/lme recipes I just used my full pre boil volume of...

One time I made a saison closer to 8 percent when it should have been closer to 5. I tried to drink it like it was a 5 percent beer, but it made me sleep on the floor randomly when I'd had more than 2 or 3. For what it's worth it was quite delicious.

Looks great.

How far along fermentation is it? Some yeast throw wicked stench while they are in the throws of the feast (fermentation).

Sam Adam's made a Braggot recently, don't know its quality though.. There is a place in Mannassas, VA that makes a braggot also, that I can attest to being pretty darned good.

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Crystal Meth you tried 15 or 20 times just to make sure you didn't like it? :confused:

I don't worry about sludge, but straining does give the impression of decent aeration. So I run my wort through a sanitized strainer and funnel into the fermentor (carboy). If I am making a lager beer, I will aerate with a stone as well. Straining also removes a lot of the hops material...

Actually it's all making sense now. They even wrote a song about it, that I'm sure was popular until it became radio popular.

I remember Ska in the early 90's. I don't recall seeing the Buddy Holly look all that often then.

I fail to identify with the hipster thing. I did the punk rock thing in the 90's, when I was still young enough not to understand it; however, it wasn't mainstream then. Plus, the music is still amazing. The mainstream would have been the Zack Morris Preppy thing (at least in the burbs of...

Isn't Sam Adam's lager more representative of a vienna style lager? What I mean is, adjunct isn't used. Which is essentially the definition of 'American Lager', no matter which color it is. The SA Website says these grain are used, "Samuel Adams two-row pale malt blend and Caramel 60". It...

Just my opinion, but the beer is awful. So, again my opinion, it's justified.

I harvested one of the Otter Creek varieties a while back, just to see if the year were good. It took a few days, and a couple of steps but the yeast was definitely viable.

I have been in Frankfurt in the last 5 years and there was mostly Beck's served throughout the city. I don't know what it is about that city, but it's mostly industrial and you are better off driving into Bavaria, which is close, to Wurzberg or some other city in order to get good beer. I...

How can one possibly think that anything but the hop-bill is what's causing this lingering bitterness?