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To be fair, where I live PBR is still 3.50 for a 6-pack of 16oz cans. Ounce for ounce it's cheaper than Icehouse and Milwaukee's Best and infinitely better. I'm noticing that the fad for PBR is passing over and that Schlitz is coming the new trendy beer with the "hipster" crowd. Which I find...

it's hard to see from the picture, but gas escaping through a tiny crack doesn't strike me as a massive issue. It's also possible that your previous fermentation didn't produce co2 vigorously enough to disturb the airlock. The point of an airlock is to allow the co2 escape while preventing...

Good hear someone else say it. I love me some fancy beers, but sometimes a light adjunct lager is the way to go. For the price PBR can't be beat. That is, unless you're in Wisconsin and you have classic selections like Hamms, Lacrosse, Schiltz, and Strohs to wash down your PBR. Whenever I'm back...

^agreed. you can coax a ton of flavors from 3711 depending on ferm temp and schedule but I've never gotten sour, per se. How sour are you talking (like, pucker on drinking/unpleasant; or sour like you might get from a slightly sour Berliner Weisse or Gose)? Saisons are a style that really lend...

I'd like to plug Great Divide's Claymore Scotch Ale as another fine commercial example. Rohrbach Brewery in Rochester, NY has a Scotch Ale as one of their flagship beers, and I personally love it, but it's difficult to find outside of Western NY. But to answer your original question, you...

+1 for trying everything possible. My favorite part of traveling through Germany and the Czech Republic is always trying the large number of beers specific to a city or region. Even the different neighborhoods of Berlin and Munich will have totally different selections, though Berliner Pilsner...

+1 on checking your water pH. A less likely, but possible, candidate could be recipe design (e.g. too much roasted barley or black patent malt in your porter).

Did the Sam Adams tour last weekend. Great tour, knowledgeable staff, really focused on education and appreciation while keeping the mood light. The crowd was a little "YEA WOO BEER!" in a kind of obnoxious way for me, and seemed less interested in the brewing process than the tasting. But for a...

What temp did you ferment at? Did you pitch way hotter than you fermented? Did you use the same yeast for both beers? Were the fermenters in direct sunlight? How was your sanitation/ are there any other signs that it may have gotten infected? If you're getting the same pukey/nasty taste from...

New Haven here. I would love to meet other brewers in the area, but can't join any clubs because my work schedule is a mess. Some kind of meet/greet/tasting would be excellent.

If you post your recipe and process someone on here should be able to pinpoint, or at least get an idea, of what lead to it tasting different than you'd like. I am a sloppy, sloppy, offensively sloppy brewer, and I frequently disturb the trub and often rack excess yeast into the bottling...

It might make for a really interesting test of one's skill/growth as a brewer to try to recreate their worst recipe disaster. Is it possible to recreate a 'fecal' brew? I don't know if I have near the ability to summon smokey bacon, mold, and rotten vegetal matter all in a single pint-glass of...

My first attempt at a lager was all kinds of disappointing. My temp control, a standard minifridge, would not get warmer than 39˚, and my noob self though I would just let it ride and the yeast would do their thing. So after no activity in any way - no bubbling in the carboy, no clouding...

I've always thought Great Divide's Titan IPA is very clearly, and deliciously, piney. Stones 16th anniversary IPA is out right now and that's perfectly citrusy. German lagers are a good combo of spicy and earthy, though those can be admittedly difficult to disaggregate. Bo Pils are typically on...

For domestics, I really like the Whippet Wheat from Thirsty dog, and Mother Earth Brewing in NC has a great Hefe called Sunny Haze. It's not all that complex or fancy but it's drinkability to interesting ratio is spot on. Flying Dog's In Heat Wheat is also quite good. Also, I hate to be one of...

I love me some Sahti! Definitely an underrated style. Easier to find in the states than Finland, though. It was all about the light lagers like Karhu, Lapin Kulta, or Olvi or straight Koskenkorva. That said I think real pilsners are underrated among people who call themselves beer geeks...

What exactly do you mean by 'contamination sample'? If you mean 'a sample taken to determine whether the rest of the batch is also infected' you probably have nothing to worry about. The yeast in the rest of your beer will create an environment difficult for a lot of nasties to thrive in. And...

(off topic) I'm in ethnomusicology. Were you in a hard science (bio, as in your HBT name, perhaps)? I hear that the attitude is a little more severe on that side of the coin. I was told this during a conversation about people burning out and dropping out of the program or finishing their 5-6...

I had one too many homebrews when I wrote my last response. Cheers, all :mug:

I love this community. I really appreciate all the honest answers about family. On that note, I'd love to have an honest pint with both my parents (still alive, knock on wood) and talk about the finer points of life. This thread has inspired me to keep in touch better. If I had to pick a...