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Hof Ten Dormaal Blond followed up by a couple Foothills' People's Porters. Liked the porters better.

Definitely agree with the bocks if you're up to a lager. Otherwise the Scottish ale seems like a good choice, or an English brown ale.

Is it your only offer? If so, then you have an easy decision - take it. It's $41k more than you make now in your chosen profession. Next week or next month if you get a better offer, then you can take that one. That's generally not considered professional, but neither is 24hrs to accept an...

This is great advice. I brewed my first lager, an Oktoberfest, to celebrate my first daughter's birth, and called it Oliviafest (you can guess). Later I brewed a Doppelbock and called it Oliviator, and a Pilsen called Oliviois. Not creative, perhaps, but fun. Now I need to work Sofia...

I think it's just a business decision and comes down to environmental drivers such as local regulations and knowing your market, and how best to optimize your business. Having said that, I've gotten really used to the smoking bans and hate going to bars now where smoking is permitted...

Nitro and a stout tap are definitely the key to "commercially" creamy stout, but including 10-20% flaked barley in your grist will help with body and creaminess in terms of mouthfeel.

Obviously, I dump it behind his fence. He probably just wonders what the smell is during the warmer months.

Well, please come clean out the 12 lbs in my cooler, then! Everytime I've tried to sneak into my neighbor's backyard since Sunday he's been over there.

Have you seen the good pastor's award-winning byo magazine-featured "homebrew MLT"?

Reminds me of grad school. That, and my current job after a GRABASS luncheon.

Those guys do make good beer...I especially like both of their rye beers. BTW, they are usually represented at brewfests in the South, at least every one I've been to here in NC. I bet if there's one in your area they'll be at it and you can line up their who repertoire!

I'm not Catholic or any other denomination that observes that custom, so I don't give up anything. My wife, OTOH, is Catholic, and I just have to make sure she doesn't give up me during Lent, if you know what I mean.

I completely agree. Even once you rack there are still active yeast doing there thing during the entire lagering process, and some lagers like Doppelbocks are lagered a long time, so autolysis isn't really a worry in this case.

It's pretty much gotta be the 2006 crop. The 2007 harvest has just finished, I think, and processing will begin. However, the last bulk order of hops I did (whole leaf) I used for ~18 months without any noticeable degradation. My understanding is that pellets last even longer. I just order a...

I'm not only a member, I have a plate on the wall in Raleigh. Another friend has two plates, and yet another three. I think there are 3-4 of us with one plate each. At least in Raleigh, you must finish all 200 beers to get the party which is a $100 tab. Several times we coordinated our...

I'm not sure I could bring myself to put fungified feet in good Guiness. I did wash my hair once with BMC but all it did was attract bees.

Yep, just wait on it to calm down. There's no set amount of days, really. Some go longer than others. Some people age IPA's longer because they're higher abv so it takes longer for them to mellow, others are perhaps simulating the traditional brewing process to some extent whereby the beer...

What are your fermentation temps? Belgian yeast usually like it warm and can stall out if they cool off, so I don't think you'll see any ill effects from higher temps depending on how high they were. That may be why you've seen fermentation flare up on occasion, when the yeast was warm enough.

I consider myself in a permanent slump with flashes of good beer ;) One thing to consider is that you may be a victim of your own increasing skills. I know I thought my first several batches were the cat's meow, but if I brewed them now I'd be pretty pissed. As you get better at brewing your...

Do you have the 3724 Belgian Saison or the 3726 Farmhouse Ale (VSS strain)? Saisons and Farmhouse ales are basically the same, or at least I'm not up to snuff enough to call out the differences. There are several excellent books on them, perhaps your LHBS has a store copy. The reason I ask if...