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The first Scotch Ale I ever tried was unfortunately Sam Adams Scotch Ale. I hated it. Luckily this style of beer was rescued by my Secret Santa this year and after trying Highland Brewing's Tasgall Ale I was pleasantly surprised at how tasty Scotch Ale can be. It's really too bad they don't...

Welcome to HBT! Always nice to see some more Minnesotans around. Funny, I'm big into Belgians, am a hop-head, and love mead. Looks like we'd all get along. ;) Yeah, your email address is showing as your username. Click "User CP" at the top of the of the page, click "Edit Email, Password...

You could do that or, as flowerysong mentioned, you could make a cyser and easily use up the remaining space as well as bring more sugar and an interesting flavor to the party.

I did a cyser with honey and apple cider with no water added. This gave me an OG of 1.137. It's finished out to roughly 1.006 as it stands right now. According to my calculations that should bring me in over 17%. Its taste is extremely hot and I'll probably end up conditioning this for a...

The average mead is made with roughly 3lbs. of honey per gallon of water. A 5 gallon batch of mead would then have 4 gallons of water and 1 gallon of honey (or roughly 12 lbs.) Of course this can be modified depending on what sweetness level you want in the finished mead. I would be wary of...

I haven't tried too many varieties of mead, but one I can definitely suggest is White Winter Winery out of Iron River, WI. I've had several varieties of theirs and they've all been very good.

Yep, Brady got lit up. Yeah, I'll say it again. Play of the game!

I work for HP and do configuration management for our mechanical engineering department. Basically we build really big printers and I make sure all part changes are passed through a controlled process. I also help buy some of those prototypes. Overall not an exciting job, but it pays the...

Yeah, there wasn't much he could do with Brady's passing performance to him. There weren't that many catchable balls thrown his way. I'm just a Vikes fan venting my hatred of Moss and knowing that at times (especially in some big games) he just doesn't try.

I do have to agree with this. I've bled purple since I was a wee lad and have seen Moss and his "I'll play when I feel like it" attitude too many times.

As the_bird has basically stated. The Giants defense won that game. They knocked down Brady over 10 times and sacked him 5. Brady was visibly off his game with several over and under thrown passes. As much as I'm not a fan of Eli Manning, I have to hand it to the kid. Near the end of the...

I kept mine in the carboy for a little over two months and bottled with 5 oz. of dextrose. It's pretty flat after over a month in the bottle. I'd suggest repitching some yeast at bottling time if you leave it in the carboy that long. On my first batch I did 5 weeks and it carbonated just fine.

Hahaha, I was going to say the same thing. Seriously though, nothing better than a weekend with brew toys.

Wow, that is awesome. When I make it out to the Seattle area (and someday I will), I'll make sure to look up some Naked City! Congrats!! :mug:

Damn, I need to move west.... August Schell Brewing Co., Inc. Brau Brothers Brewing Co. LLC Flat Earth Brewing Company Gluek Brewing Company - I'm especially embarrassed to call this a MN brewery Lake Superior Brewing Company Lawson Creek Brewery Mantorville Brewing Company, LLC...

Hehe, I remember stopping at a rest stop outside of Yuma, AZ on the way to San Diego to have a cigarette and it was about 120F out. Screw that. My motto is, you can always put on more clothes to stay warm. At 120F, you're screwed.

Agreed. :rockin:

I've seen that done before here. It's pretty cool. A lot of it instantly turns to gas and goes up in a puff of smoke. That's pretty much the only thing cool about it being that cold outside.

Well, it's -5F right now with a -21F windchill. :( Coldest for me was about -40F with a -70F windchill. Not exactly recommended to be outside at that temp since frostbite starts in roughly 60 seconds.

Yeah, this weather is ridiculous. It was over 40 yesterday and right now it is 0 with a -20 windchill. WTF. I stepped outside this morning with a plastic water bottle that was nearly empty and it immediately started trying to collapse on itself because of the drastic change in air pressure...