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I've never had pliny the elder or hopslam, the only stupidly hopped beer I've had was the majarajah. I actually didn't really like it. By boring and bland I mean their regular line that's in all the grocery stores around here tastes like eating something that hasn't been seasoned properly. I'm...

Whats with all the stripmall hate, it has never even occurred to me that there was something wrong with them. Also I've never been on a st. arnolds tour but all the beer they have in stores is really...boring and bland.

I made a hefeweizen recently with the same yeast and a 2L starter. Not as much banana as I was hoping for, more clovey. It's not tart at all though.

I've used the person over at wildvinecarvings.com to get a couple tap handles carved. They came out really nice and I will probably use them again in the future. She does commissioned carvings and I'm sure a sign would be within her skills.

so i just bottled a hefeweizen to 4 volumes per the calculator I used. I had no idea that 4 volumes would blow a regular bottle, so far so good, no explosions.

I went to defalco's once to get my very first kit several years ago but it's just too far away, same as kegcowboy (you're also in a pain in the ass part of town to drive in). If I have to get my ingredients locally I usually go to brew it yourself near the woodlands, they're right off 45 a...

Mini fridge and a johnson controls thermostat, otherwise I'd be fermenting beer near 78-80 degrees when it's 100+ outside.

That's the one with some sort of connection to flying dog right? Hope they're as good, I'm pretty excited.

I've used 2565 and 029 and gotten sulphur from both. I start at 55 and let it stay there for about a week then slowly increase it to room temperature for another week. Then it sits at 72-75 for two more weeks before I bottle. 029 had less sulphur. It also doesn't come out of the airlock or...

I added too much water to bring it down to 1.04 for my starter, had to concentrate it. Water wasn't sterile either. That and I wanted to add some yeast nutrient, and it says add to boil with 15 mins left. So I boiled it for 15 mins.

Just made a starter out of the stuff, sg appeared to be 1.06 just incase anyone wondered. Boiling carbonated liquid is weird btw.

I just bought some custom handles from a local wood carver here in Houston. She does mostly custom work, and carved exactly what I asked for (a dog, and a hop vine, etc). I have a few being made now as well. Her email is [email protected]. Really nice looking stuff. Her...

I know this is about 3068 but with 2565 (kolsch) it had to sit in primary for 4 weeks and it still sort of smelled like sulphur at bottling. After they spent 2 weeks in the bottles all the sulphur had gone. I do plan on using 3068 this weekend so good to know I'll have to treat this one the same...

my brew dog sits on the mash tun when I'm not looking. Probably because its warm and covered in towels/blankets. He's a great dane though so I'm a little afraid hes going to knock it over.

+1 to gordon strong's brewing better beer. I've only read 3 chapters and have found several things I'm going to change in my process. Yeast was good too but didn't make me change anything about how I ferment.

made 6 gallons of it with amarillo substituted for the cascade. Pretty damn good.

since its gotten warmer here I've had the same problem on my last two brews. Anywhere the buckets condensate in the fermentation fridge mold grows. Either way as long as the buckets have a good seal I don't believe the stuff can get into the beer. I spray the outside down with star san before I...

sounds like meth tea, mmmm

Spray foam the inside of the hole and after it's cured cut off the excess and silicone it.

I use a 10.5 gallon and usually get 7-7.5 gallons to the kettle and 6 post boil. It wants to boil over everytime even with fermcap. It could be that I'm boiling too vigorously though. I find spraying the side of the kettle with water from the hose to drop the temp quickly usually stops it from...