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Welcome! It’s a fun and interesting hobby, and I’m sure you’ll find a lot of helpful people and info here. Enjoy!

French martini in a lovely pewter martini goblet I got as a Christmas gift. May have to look into the beer pint mugs too.

@balrog I saw that too on my way home, parked in a field. Wondered why it was there.

I ordered from Craft A Brew in the past and was very happy with them. I used the 1G ones when first starting out, but they also sell 5G recipe kits.

I’m planning to brew it too, next week. Have the ingredients, just need the time, lol. Trying it with S04 for the first time.

I have a couple little BMBs, glass. They are a little more than one gallon in size and so provide enough headspace for my one gallon batches. I love the wide opening, makes cleaning easy. Mine don’t have a spigot so I use a mini auto siphon. Overall very happy with them.

I had it a year and a half ago, mild case. Lost my sense of taste/smell and it came back but some things still don’t taste right, hoppy beers being one of them. Just get an unpleasant bitterness that overpowers other flavors. Other things have a weird floral taste now, like some red wines...

+1 to toasting the pumpkin in the oven first and adding to the mash. Also highly recommend adding rice hulls to the grain bill if doing biab. I used them the first time I made my pumpkin ale and things went well. Decided to skip them the next time and the bag was totally clogged and wouldn’t...

That’s so cool, congratulations! I brewed a Grodziskie a couple years back as an homage to my Polish heritage. Been wanting to make one again. Enjoy your experience of being part of brewing it at a brewery.

Well that’s a bummer. It has been a strange growing season overall. Mine grew a lot but all the cones turned brown quickly, and they did not seem to be ready yet based on past years. Not sure what happened.

Also in the same area as Allagash Brewing are several other smaller breweries as well as a great distillery (New England Distillers). They are all in this former industrial park type area, can practically walk from one to another. Also in Portland, along the waterfront part of town, is...

I ferment my 1G batches in a Little Big Mouth Bubbler. And the 2.5G in a 3G Better Bottle. Been happy with them.

+1 to the above. I started with a 1G kit using a pot I already had in my kitchen. It was a good way to get my feet wet without investing too much.

Welcome to HBT! You should let those go, those branching out bines with nodes are where the hops will grow. Usually at the start of the season I cut back all bines and then once they start growing again, just keep some of them. The early bines are usually bull shoots and are kind of hollow...

Kegged my Dark Lager with Lubelski hops. Sample tasted great, can't wait for it to carb up!

@balrog I guess he/she likes you.

I recommend Great Lakes Hops. It's been several years but I bought mine from them, they sell small plants rather than rhizomes, and have a nice selection. The plants arrived looking very healthy and are still going strong.

This doesn't answer the immediate problem, but next time try putting a top draw setup in the keg. I've done this for ferment & serve in keg and it works well.

@Miraculix , my friend recently brewed your British Golden Ale-Miraculix Best-Classic English Ale mentioned above and gave me some to try. It was very tasty. Definitely on my To Brew list.

Enjoyed a homebrewed Czech Dark Lager on Thanksgiving. 🍻