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Just got home from fighting ISIS in Syria (With YPG, alongside US forces). My girlfriend said she wants to make mead. She told me and THEN found out I'm a certified cicerone, BJCP judge, and former professional vintner. So I'm going balls deep impressive on this. Tomorrow she's deciding if...

Hey guys! I was wondering if anybody has any experience with making an IPA using solely noble hops. The noble hops are by far my favorite hop varieties, and while I don't much care for the IPA category, I'd love to try to make a noble hop bomb. Does anybody have any experience making...

Hey guys! I just wanted to share my experience with a local homebrew club. I'm from upstate NY and had previously attended a few meetings at a club that meets near the capitol. After a then-officer (Maybe still an officer) dropped a couple of slurs in front of my SWMNBO, I decided not to...

Hey guys! Doing a new brew tomorrow. I know what I'm going for, but I don't know if it fits any style guidelines. I was hoping that somebody could provide some insight. I'm planning on doing a high gravity (1.092) lager using only vienna malt. While this could put me in the high end of...

Hey guys! I've been looking around for companies that have preorders on next years rhizomes, and I'm looking for a couple of specific varieties. I was wondering if anybody had any leads. I've completed my noble hop collection, but am looking for a couple more varieties that I LOVE to brew...

Hey everybody! I passed my Cicerone 1 exam about 3 weeks ago in 12 minutes with a 97%. I skipped studying for Cicerone 1, and studied instead for Cicerone 2. I'm currently in one of the "road to cicerone" classes (English and Irish beers), and am planning on hopping into the "Keeping and...

Hey guys! So I discovered that I genuinely like Becks Sapphire. I know it's a macro, but it's a really sessionable macro, nonetheless. But while drinking it, I noticed that its bottle is significantly darker bottle than the brown ones found everywhere. We all know that clear bottles don't...

I'm the winery-assistant/assistant-vintner at the winery located in my home town. My boss recently found a class on Edx which broadly covers a number of aspects of the wine world, and is a wonderful introduction class (Heck, it's a wonderful class for for intermediate learners, as well). The...

I just did some looking around, and found that there are 45 possible prizes for the 2015 Big Giveaway. There are also 288 pages of entries (When you display at 10 posts per page). Assuming that Austin has finished entering mail in entries, from mere we could infer the number of entries...

Hey guys! So I've made a few hop rhizome purchases over the past few years, and in my last purchase, I had the most amazing experience. I wanted to share that with you all. So my second-to-last experience was with a hop grower two states over. It took 2 weeks to deliver, and by the time...

My father is a recovering alcoholic. He is also the man who I've helped brew since I was 8. He still drinks NA beers, and we still talk beer production all the time. With that in mind, his 50th birthday is in 6 weeks. I want to try my hand at an NA beer for his birthday. I've been...

I'm 3/4 of the way of filling out my German Landrace Noble Hop collection. Saaz? Check. Hallertauer Mittelfruh? Check. Tettnang? Check. But spalt? My absolute favorite of the landrace nobles? I can't find it anywhere. Does anybody either sell or know of a place that sells Spalt...

Hey everybody. I recently purchased a Hallertau and Tettnang rhizome from a hop retailer who occasionally posts on these forums. I have no intent of outing them in public, but when I received my rhizomes, I got the most beautiful Hallertau rhizome I've seen in a LONG time. But the Tettnang...

Am I the only one out there who absolutely, positively sees nothing of value in the IPA craze? I loved that beer was changing away from pale lagers... but dang, it's almost like everybody and their grandmother wants to do yet another IPA with astonishingly unbalanced IBUs and finished with...

We all have them. Cheap workarounds for things we haven't yet invested in. "No I don't". Yes, you do, you liar. "But I'm rich". Oh, sorry. Most of us are debating our next upgrade. For some of us it's a 10 gallon pot to get into all grain. For others it's an oxygenation stone, so that...

Hey everybody! I'm currently growing Tettnanger and Hallertau. I'm planning on picking up a Spalter Select rhizome (Unless anybody has a source for straight Spalt rhizomes). As you can tell... I'm a noble hop guy. I like aromatic hops with pretty low alpha acid levels. So a couple of...

Hey everybody. My name is Marcus. I'm from the Adirondacks in upstate NY. I actually live closer to Montreal than I do to NYC. I say this because many people consider the Finger lakes or Buffalo to be upstate NY. That's downstate, where I'm from. I'm an avid homebrewer, and have been...

I've purchased a couple of hop rhizomes this year, and have been completely unable to find Bullion rhizomes for two years now. Does anybody have any for sale, or know a place which does? Also looking for Nelson Sauvin, but I don't see many places selling the hops, let alone the rhizomes.

Hey guys, I'm looking to pick up Saaz, Hallertauer Mittelfrüh, and Bullion rhizomes. I know that rhizome sales are over for the season basically everywhere, but do any of you have leads on potential sellers of these varieties?

Hey everybody, I've been trying to find information on making a corn mash, and there seems to be a monopoly on this topic held by the "eh, let's just wing it and hope we get something close" crowd. I'm wondering specifically if you can make a mash out of 100% corn. I've seen people malt...