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Bottled last night...playlist included: Blood Mountain by Mastodon We Built A Fortress On Short Notice by self-evident The Resistence by Muse

Just received word that I should expect a few samples from a new Midwest yeast company in the mail next week! Then instructed my wife (who is in mpls for a week) to stop by nb and grab me a kit to test said yeast samples. I'm going to Get back from work late tonight and going to rack my super...

So I guess things must have been delayed, but I received an email the other day from union labs and they are sending me a a few samples of their American Ale yeast. He said they're selling it in Sioux Falls, SD in a few places for $4. He told me it shouldn't have a problem handling up to 10%...

My wife's best friend is pregnant and due any day now. What I did for beer today was wish her friend would have that baby, so she'd go to mpls and I could get some brewing done. Hahaha. It's been a busy few weeks around here. Between work and other summer household jobs to do, I just haven't...

Thanks again to everyone! We just got back from our trip. It was a really busy trip (I was in the wedding, and had lots of jobs), but I still got my hands on loads of beer. The first night I got a growler of Berkshires Lost Sailor IPA, Steel Rail Extra Pale Ale, and Coffeehouse Porter. Also...

This same thing has been posted a few times on this thread...I know because I was one of them. Haha. Yeah, just take it as a compliment

Spoon on Austin City Limits while brewing my super pale ale

My yearly Super Pale Ale is finally getting brewed (I change it every year), this year with cascade, mosaic, and sweet orange peel...wlp007 Got Austin city limits playing from the living room

Drinking at my buddy's house (who I brew with), and his wife asked if she should keep the bottle we had just drank to reuse. I told her it was a Belgian bottle and we typically don't use them...there was a long conversation about the fact that we'd need a corker, so I showed her one in the...

I was having beers with some trainees from work last night. I had been working all week with one of them and he told some of the guys that I brew my own beer, this was the conversation after his comment... Trainee #1: "oh that's cool! And it's stronger than normal beer too" Me: "what?"...

I just put together this one... 3lbs Belgian Pilsner 3lbs briess rye malt 1lbs caramunich 3.15lbs Pilsen lme 1lbs d-45 candi 2oz Styrian Goldings @60 1oz Styrian Goldings @0 Wyeast 3711 I currently have enough ingredients at home to brew 4 different 5 gallon batches and i have 2...

I'm gonna go home for the first time in three weeks. Rack my rebel rye porter from nb, try my honey-basil double pale I bottled last time I was home, and brew this years rendition of my annual Riley Mae Super Pale! Oh and go hear my baby's heartbeat!! It's gonna be a good weekend

I bottled my honey-basil double pale on the 18th. I'm out of town for work and won't be home until the 30th, but I can't wait to try it. Ended up with 6lbs Pilsen lme 4lbs 2-row 1lbs honey malt .5lbs 10L 1lbs flaked oats 1oz Summit @ 60 1oz Simcoe @ 10 3oz Organic Basil @ 10 12oz...

I think Sÿx was the strongest and it came in at 13 or 14%.

Bottled my honey-basil double pale and tried to brew the nb rebel rye again, but the wyeast pack was bunk...AGAIN! 1028 London Ale, my second bad pack...so I said screw it and tossed in a pack of US-05. We'll see how it turns out

I received a replacement wyeast 1028 and will make a second attempt at brewering the nb rebel rye on Sunday, also going to bottle my honey-basil double pale

Haha...right after I typed that, I thought, "I don't think that's how that's spelled". Only had it that one time. I knew that it wasn't an Asian beer though.

I'm brewing my annual super pale (I change the recipe every year.). This year is a cascade mosaic pale. 6lbs golden lme 1lbs carapils 1 oz cascade @ 60 1 oz cascade @ 20 1 oz mosaic @ 5 2 oz cascade 7 day dry hop 1 oz mosaic 7 day dry hop I also have a honey-basil double pale...

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My last name is long and hard to pronounce. One day a couple friends started calling me drives-a-bike (it rhymes with my last name) and it stuck.