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I'll loosely quote a statement from a G.E. CEO? He said "We are not in the business to make cars, we are in the business to make money... but to make money, we need to sell car's" I guess my point is, I believe AB could care less if their beer is a hit with real beer lovers, but if they can...

Hofbrau bottles are great. The labels just fall off with no glue residue, they're green but I don't mind. Plus the beer = tasty.

I'm not experienced enough to comment on your recipe, but as far as the extra water... I would add it to your sparge water & divide by two so you have 2 equal sized 170* sparges. I would also make sure you use DME, not LME and maybe do a late extract addition. Good luck!

After I decided to switch from Extract to PM, the only "new" item I needed was a MLT. Search the forum if you're handy and want to build one for cheap. If I may add my $.02 though... If you are thinking about going PM, I would really make sure you understand how to tweak an extract recipe so...

Open lasts longer. The only reason I'd do closed is if it were a bagel/egg sandwich. This poll is CLOSED!

I just brewed up a batch of Belgian Wit which is in secondary now. After doing a lot of research on this forum, I found a few people that mentioned blue moon was made by Coors, which uses California Ale Yeast. If it's not too late, drop the belgian yeast & pickup some Cali. If I had to guess...

To be fair, I did not catch the guy's name. It could be Jim, or Bob, or Jimbob for all I know. The handfull of times I've gone into the store, I've encountered only three people. One very quiet guy, one very talkative (and what I thought was informative) guy (Jim?), and a nice lady. 1lb of...

Thank you to everyone for responding to my post. All this information has certainly given me some "ammo" to bring back to my LHBS. I will hopefully take a trip tomorrow or Friday to follow up on this issue, and I'll be sure to post my results. Thanks again and happy brewing:mug:

Wasn't there some EPA Initiative against pesticides to protect honey bee's? Just throwing it out there...

This is very interesting. The guy seemed like a genuine, straight forward kind've guy. Maybe he was mis-informed? Here is their website for anyone who's interested: http://www.arborwine.com/index.html

So after reading so much hype about the quality of Star-san, I decided to go to my LHBS to pick some up for myself. I was informed that Star-san is illegal in NY because it can be used as a pesticide? Apparently LHBS was fined $5,000 for carrying it. He then suggested one-step, which is what...

Makes sense to prop up the cooler before the mash-in... Thanks. Any tips on vorlaufing? I had a hard time not disturbing the grain bed in a 5gal round cooler MLT setup. After some reading, it looks like my next mash will be a Single infusion, mash out, double sparge. I'm excited to see...

Nobody asked what type of cooler you used? I'm assuming its a square type? I like that insulation over the top method, but if your cooler is poorly designed to begin with, why not spend the $40 on a decent cooler that will retain heat better? I have the 5 Gal round style, and it only lost 1...

So I completed my first PM last night. Belgian Wit. Went pretty much flawless and wound up with the best tasting wort I've made so far. (I'm used to extracts). I owe all thanks to the information on this forum for sure. Here's a few questions I had during my experience: 1. When you finish...

Told you it was a silly question. So Beersmith automatically adjusts for losses (like grain absorbtion)? What a cool program.

I've decided my first AG will be the Centennial Blonde. I am very excited to showcase this beer mid-summer. I have one, probably silly question regarding your Beersmith recipe. I noticed where you select Batch Sparge as your method, it doesn't tell you how much volume to sparge with. So I'm...

I am using a kit, so I'm not sure they included a mash schedule. They also did not provide ingredients/weights so I cannot put it into Beersmith. I suppose I'll just use this one to get some practice in mashing, and then swith to AG and not worry about it anymore. I can get a 48qt SS pot for...

So I assume Beersmith has a pre-boil gravity as well as a post top-off gravity? I guess my question is more along the lines of, great you nailed your pre-boil gravity... but what if you put too much water in the wort post boil? Wouldn't you rather put in a gallon or so less top off water...

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems if I really want to nail my efficiency, or make it seem like I nailed my efficiency, I can just top off with less than 5gal, and add water until I hit the gravity I'm looking for? I feel like I'm cheating! Of course proportionally it wouldn't be the...

When you calculate efficiency of a partial mash, I'm assuming you can only do a post-boil/post "top-off" hydrometer reading for an accurate calculation? :mug: