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If your an IPA fan I'd say Fryes Leap from Sebago is a must try while you're out there. I also enjoyed Sebago's DIPA as well as Baxter's Stowaway IPA which had a very smooth caramel malt character. As already mentioned Lunch is my favorite ME IPA. Geary's, Shipyard and Gritty Mcduffs are all...

I brewed 4 extract batches before I bought a 10 gal igloo, heat stick and grain mill. Haphazardly brewing in a 10 gal alum. pot on my stovetop. I referenced the water primer on this site and bought distilled water and added the recommended salts. I skipped the acidulated malt, figuring if I...

Welcome to the hobby, what kind of stuff you been brewing? I'm guessing you've visited the Zymurgist up there? Some good breweries by you and I really like the Hops & Barley Market at Queensbury Plaza. Cheers bud.

There is definitely growler service in VT I came home with a trunk full of 'em last trip. Mostly from breweries but a beverage center in Burlington had them as well.

Just remember if you suspect under pitching, the off flavors would be excessive yeast esters, a harsh alcohol taste from fusels, possibly diacetyl. Other things that underpitching does is allow more lag time where infection could take hold as well as stuck or high terminal gravity. You're...

I had checked my water report as well and everything seemed ok. No problem with chlorine either. All I did for the last batch was add some calcium carbonate and gypsum to RO water at slightly less than the baseline suggested in the Water Primer thread here (I didn't include sauermalz or stress...

What kind of water are you brewing with? My first all grain batch was very slightly darker than expected and had less hop character than I had hoped, the bitterness came through fine. It was decent, almost malty, but really lacking crispness or a bright hop aroma. Last batch I chose to build...

That's my second best friend. Took me many places and has been tons of fun. I've put 65,000 miles on in 3 years and I only work 3 miles from home. It's an auto and totally stock. I keep winter tires on all year and it's a blast in the dirt, mud and snow. Probably will get a Jeep when it's paid...

As advertised, sour, salty and delicious. I've tried a few disappointing goses lately but this one delivered. Pinches your tongue a bit, nice subtle salt, very refreshing.

Includes 3 each of 4 beers, seems like a 12 pack to me?

Congrats it's a great feeling to really enjoy a beer you made. Just curious what your other two kits were? I've done 5 brews now and the 4th was the first one I truly liked. I feel like I tortured myself by doing IPA's over and over until I started to get it right. People have told me that...

I enjoy IPA's and have had a few of the Rebel. I have no experience with cloning beers myself, however I'm positive that you're going to want to increase the amount of hops and move them closer to the end of the boil. If they use a 60 minute hop it's likely the Chinook. Try a small amount of...

Opened 1993 as Brown and Morans Brewing Co., in 94 it changed to the Troy Brewing Co. and later became Brown's. They do make a fantastic stout. :mug: From the Schenectady area myself.

Got em.

Anything from The Pump Station, lots of Davidson's releases, Browns as well. Stuff comes in to The Ruck in Troy that you can't find in bottles. Same with the local beverage centers. It's the only way to take home stuff from Rushing Duck, Newburgh Brewing, Mill House Brewing and plenty of other...

At least around here they're typically not significantly more per oz. Just checked my local sometimes overpriced favorite beverage center. As an example a 64 oz fill of Magic Hat Dream Machine is $8.99. A 6 pack is $9.40 at the local grocery store. The growler comes out to about $.01 more per...

A lot of people use a beer thief. I prefer the kind that's a long tapered tube with a small hole on top. You sanitize it, dip it in then plug the top and draw your wort out. You can usually get enough for a sample in one good pull. You can also use a turkey baster, though its harder to clean and...

I bought a small digital scale from a sketchy gas station that sold dope pipes and stuff for like $15. Checked it with various weights and it seems to work fine for small amounts like hops. I just use a small plastic cup to weigh them out in. Probably not the best scale but it's pretty accurate...

There's a lot of great beers that can only be taken home with growlers here in Upstate NY. I have a bunch of them I fill regularly and they make nice containers for a blow off tube as well.

Are they leaving the word "sceptic" in? Pretty cool story, usually beers like this with strangely sourced yeast are interesting to say the least. I'd give it a try if I could.