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I think we get a lot of skunked imports here in the US, and just get accustomed to drinking it.

Looks like CO2 coming out of solution and hop carnage. You might be able to get away with not boiling DME, but it's not advisable and I think it's pretty unusual to add fermentables to the secondary. The goal of racking is to clear the beer and allow you to dry hop, but you can dry hop in...

Wow, I really like that beer. Then again, I love the taste of triple twelve.

My tap water tastes fine, so I just use that. I add a tiny bit of potassium metabisulfite to dechlorinate. I add far less than what you would use to knock down wild yeast, but I wait a day to let the SO2 dissipate.

I have a 4-month-old barleywine in bottles. It was in the primary for 1 month, bulk aged for 1 month (the last 2 weeks of which involved dry-hopping w/3 oz), and then bottled. I was impatient and in addition to being uncarbed it tasted absolutely disgusting after 3 weeks in bottles. I cracked...

But it got you tanked. Very few beers that come in 40 oz bottles are meant to be savored.

Your urine probably has more hop aroma than Steel Reserve.

Microbiologist. That's not nerdy at all.

Yeah that's a pretty nasty brew. But it can't hold a candle to Steel Reserve.

32.) Because I need the bottles from my last batch for the one that I'm brewing now.

11.) Because John Barleycorn Must Die

Strawberry mango juice and baker's yeast in a milk jug when I was in high school.

Running two miles for every beer that you drink is a good starting point.

Brewing 5 gal of saffron wheat ale and, time permitting, 5 gal of weizenbock.

Hardly. Slippery slope arguments are one of the most over-used logical fallacies I've encountered. Were people who willingly flaunted laws against interracial marriage taking the first step on a slippery slope? Of course not. They simply understood that a person is under no obligation to...

Um... carboys are gardens that grow delicious homebrew all year.

Steel reserve

Maybe a hefeweizen or an IPA. Both are meant to be consumed young.

A perfect symptom of what's wrong with our society. Whether you're left, right, or whatever, you can probably name a laundry list of things the government should be doing instead of busting homebrewers.

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