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It smells like an old shoe and it tastes amazing! Give up? It's my secret witbier recipe! Sorry people, I only have a few bottles left and I'm going to use them in a scented hot bath tonight, so please: don't even.

Since reading this OP's confession, I have not used my strappings of nylon. I've been carrying my glass carboys with careful bare hands (else to suffer lost beers by accidentation). My hands are free and idle and they got the gripping power of a ghecko. And when my hands get wet and slippy, or...

That, to me, is this entire thread summarized. Or more precisely: Budweiser is a great beer if you like Budweiser - they consistently put out Budweiser that tastes the same no matter where you are - its Budweiser. So if you say you will never like Budweiser.... HOW SNOBBY! :ban:

Love Elliott Smith (and Brad Mehldau).. this is fantastic, thank you.

Oh look! A new direction! Mrs McDinsky: Beer goggles is real, dawg. Me: Of course they are but flushots are too. Sam: Don't. Please, don't. Me: Recite the passages. Dispel the evil. Save my soul... And your own lives!

This dumb thread is called how snobby. BMC is ****. And only a fraction of 'craft beer' breweries make good distributed beer in the US. They ought to be praised. And the rest ought to be forgotten.

I will never buy a big business beer if I can help it. Because they don't taste good to me. I don't care about the details: how good those brewers really are, etc, etc. And also a lot of craft beer is (less than okay). Praise those great breweries that make great beer. The rest of them can go...

Birthday suit

A stylish kolschburgh style on the final lap and a dubbelville Belgium trapp Chimayville red/premiere clone chugging away. And a cidertown getting old.

Love my glass carboys. As long as they are happy, I am happy. But lately I've been using my r2d2 primary vessel. It's stainless steel and it responds to my voice so I don't have to move it around. It's just much more convenient and makes cute robot noises all the time.

True story. I came home after having too many drinks. As a midnight snack before bed I ate left over Thai food. I thought it would be a Great idea to mix it with anchovy paste and nutella so I did and ate it. It tasted Awesome. On subsequent days I have failed to replicate the...

Guys, talking about people who don't know as much about beer as you do isn't funny. Let's get back to funny things we've overheard about beer!

New York staters love their breweries from Long Island to Buffalo. I love NY so I ain't judging. Not that their neightbors PA and VT don't also make great bottled and distributed beers, but tri-staters NJ and CT certainly don't compare.

Seems like the general consensus here is the added effort is not worth the benefit. Are there any benefits to a clearer wort? I was assuming that those bits that get through, which amount to a fair amount of material, would impart some flavors during the boil. Flavors like astringency in the...

I love my unconverted 5 gallon cooler with a vinyl mesh inside. I used it to learn all grain brewing and I get good efficiency out of it. Today I brewed my first Trappist dubbel (pretty excited about it) and I was paying attention to the clarity of the wort more than ever. I thought to myself...

The German Beer Purity Law pretty much defines what is beer, especially to Germans, and it was first created before the discovery of yeast. So from the German perspective, it makes perfect sense that Belgian beer isn't traditional beer. He could simply have said no beer is traditional beer...

Coincidentally I"m about to brew my first chimay red dubbel. As this is my first attempt with the recipe and yeast, I have little idea of how it will turn out. But I thought I'd bounce the recipe off if anyone can supply some advice. 3 gal Maris Otter 6.7 lbs Cara Munich 5 oz Aromatic 2 oz...

One of my favorite beer is the Trappist ale Chimay Red (dubbel) ... I have studied and researched them extensively (I have drank many of them). I would recommend to anyone. The bite is probably ale that is too strong. I generally avoid ale that is 9% ABV and above.

It depends on the fruit. For example raspberry has a strong upfront aroma and taste while blueberry's rather subtle. I once added 4 lbs of in season crushed blueberry to a 3 gallon batch of hybrid wheat and it came out very good after three months in the bottle. Also, don't neglect the yeast...

Interesting! I wonder what strong ale would go well with wormwood for aging. Maybe a strong Belgian?