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Well, according to Sam Calagione from Dogfishhead in the film Beer Wars, InBev is incredibly litigious by trumping up lawsuits against DFH and other micros to drain their operating expenses with legal fees. Also, I don't know if I consider plotting display space for beer stores, distributors and...

Small pox is a cover up. They went to Nibiru with the Annunaki. Nibiru returns tonight at 12:01am PST. So the guys on the radio have said for a few years anyway. I don't believe this stuff, but it's damn hilarious. Check out Coast to Coast AM at 10pm PST if you can. Look up KFI AM 640 on...

Doug Stanhope is doing an end of the world show in LA tomorrow. I forgot to get tickets however. Might go and see if any scalpers have an extra. I live in LA - so if Planet X and / or Mayan Gods are coming, I imagine they would come up through the home of the weird. I will keep you posted.

Okay - I had to rewrite this whole post because I skipped a part in the Magic Hat Wiki page. It looks like they were bought in 2k10 by North American Breweries. FIFCO acquired North American Breweries in October of this year. Apparently Magic Hat bought Pyramid in 2008. My friend is a taster...

I agree with letting people know that Blue Moon and Shock Top are scams. I didn't see anyone disparaging Magic Hat in the article. Coming from the Beast Coast originally, I do remember them as a scrappy DIY startup from the People's State of Vermont. It would be a shame if they were not that...

Thanks bierdude! So, if I understand this correctly, even with a 5000 Watt step up transformer I would still need a breaker that can handle over 15A to run the 20L on a residential 120V outlet. From the reading I have done in this, quite helpful, thread, I am going to go ahead and guess that...

Fair enough. But I think it depends on the apartment. I live in LA and for two and a half years all I could do were ciders made from store bought juice because my apartment was one 10'x12' room with a tiny bathroom. My electric stove couldn't cook mac and cheese! Let alone grain. I will...

If you lived in an apartment and were tired of mild boil extracts on a stove top, I assure you that you would be less disparaging of the Braumeister. I love brewing, but I can really only brew when I fly back to PA and visit my father who is of the landed class. Plus, the price point is perfect...

Hi All, Has anyone confirmed this does work safely with a step up transformer? I am an apartment dweller in LA and, as far as I can tell, will never really be able to live somewhere that I can afford a house. So I need this thing. Even extract is too wonky on a gas apartment stove. But I doubt...

Thanks for the input. Just added gelatin to my new cider yesterday. Seems that it is the best option when you don't boil a batch. Thanks, Scott

Hey Homebrew Talk, I recently clarified a really muddy store bought pasteurized cider (2 galls Langer's apple juice, .5 galls Ocean Spray Cranberry - red star champagne yeast) with gelatin and it looks like the gelatin may have gotten the pasteurized juice cloud out. It's only been in the...

Now that I think about it, I read that as well in Palmer's book. It's been awhile since I have had to consider those nuances, as I have been doing ciders/store bought juice into beer esque beverage exclusively lately.

From my experience, it probably should. I ran into trouble recently trying to salvage the bottom of a cider yeast cake, however that turned out fine after I pitched a packet of Lavin EC-1118 into the must. The EC ate all the dead yeast and fermentation has been textbook since then. The only...

I get beer from Clubs of America (sometimes schwaggy, sometimes not) in the mail every other month. They send via UPS and they pack the beer in an awesome box without foam peanuts, bubble, etc. The inside of the box has two pieces in it (one for the top and one for the bottom) made out of the...

My first pale ale exploded all over my dorm closet. Luckily I didn't panic about the beer, but only because I knew there was way too much CO2 in there for contamination. I'm lucky I got to know brewing from watching someone before I tried my hand at it.

I used Red Star in my last batch of cider (Started about a week before your first post) and I had primary fermentation beginning about 3 hours after pitching. But the yeast sat in an apple juice starter for roughly 5 hours previous to pitching. From what I have read starters really help...

Two years ago I tried fermenting Tea with Trader Joes Irish Breakfast Tea, two (maybe three) pounds of turbinado sugar and a generic champagne yeast (i think). It was an off the cuff experiment to make 5 galls for under $10, so I didn't take notes on brew day. I never went back and wrote notes...