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Anyone going to Hop School this year? Sent from my iPhone using Home Brew

So I decided to do a "sourdough" with WLP 655 Belgian Sour. I did equal parts flour and water, and pitched the vial in. I let it sit over night, and it really took off nicely. The next afternoon I mixed in a couple cups of rye flour, and put it back to rest on the counter. By that evening it...

Moderators, if this is the wrong place to post this, I apologize, and please let me know... that being said, on with my rant... So I thought that it was just big energy drink companies that were jerks, and went around telling people what they could name their beers... I was wrong. A letter went...

If you are in the state of Washington, and care about the availability of good craft beer, then pay attention to House Bill 1462. Washington state law currently only allows 1/6th barrel kegs at specialty beer stores. As you know, many good craft beers are only availabe in pony or 1/2 barrel...

Ok, so work wise, this week has kind of sucked... long and stressful... but it just ended on an AWESOME note, today has kicked ass... I work in the corporate offices of a grocery chain, doing IT work. I had to go out to one of our stores today to take care of some stuff. I was talking to...

The Frys ad for Renton, Washinginton, has the Sanyo 4912 on sale for $189, in case anyone is looking for one.

Ok, So I am looking for suggestions on holiday beers. Every year we have a New Years Day party and part of the days evens is a sampling of winter seasonal beers. Here is a link to a page that I built where I am tracking what I have found so far, purchased or not. Seattle Fusion Web...

So what do you do when you have 50 people coming over for dinner in two hours, you have one turkey baking in the oven, two more in the brine waiting to be put into the turkey fryer, and you find that your fryer has sprung a leak? Have a beer, and get out the angle grinder, Of Course! I am at...

For those of you that are doing large batches, in the 20+ gallon size, how are you building up yeast for a batch that size?

It is 10:12 am Pacific time on 10/23/08 - is anyone else having trouble getting to the B3 website? I just get a blank page when I try to go there...

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So what 2008 commercial holiday beers have you found so far? I have already come across the Redhook Winterhook, and the Deschutes Jubelale. Had to pick up a sixer of the Winterhook, the brew that got me into homebrewing...

Deschutes Black Butte Porter Deschutes Hop Trip Mactarnahans Slingshot Extra Pale Ale Mactarnahans Amber Full Sail 21st Anniversary Dopplebock Full Sail Old Boardhead The two Full Sail were the two most popular of the night, followed by the Black Butte. EDIT: WOW... I think that was my...

So I have a possible line on a converted keg, standard 1/2 barrel sankey keg, top cut out, a handle and some tabs welded to it so that it acts as a lid, four full size 1/2" couplers welded in, one for the valve, one for the thermometer, one for the sightglass, and one for a return for...

So, with all of the different divisions and what not that the Kroger company has, I can not imagine that I am the only guy that homebrews among all those employees. Anyone else here work for Kroger, or one of their divisions?

OK, So does anyone know what todays "Deal of the Day" was over on MoreBeer.com? I am on vacation, and did not catch it. Some days you can still see the image of what it was, blurred out in the background, but for some reason, today I can't see that. Not that it does me any good to know what...

Ok, So I am in the process of going all grain, AND building my brew house, so I am doing a lot of questioning and thinking about how I want things to work. One question I have is, what is the largest grain bill that you have ever used for keggle sized batch? I got thinking about the fact...

LONG POST WARNING... SORRY. So I am looking for ideas. I have not been able to brew at all this year, due to equipment failures and what not, and I am now getting everything back up and running. I am in the process of going to all grain, I have 2 kegs that can be converted, and I have 2 ten...

So I am going to be in the Phoenix area for about a week in September, and I am wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of any good micro breweries in the area, either for sampling, or even better, for touring. I am always looking for good beers to try, but I would also love to...

Ok, so I have two kegs that I am going to have converted, one was very easy to disassmble (watched bobbys video). The second one, a Miller keg, appears to be a normal Sankey keg, but there is NO SNAP RING. It looks exactly the same as the other, except no snap ring and for the life of me, I...