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Hrmmm. Can't seem to change the tasting notes... This is a great IPA if you're looking for something that's not completely over the top. It's a beautiful light amber color with a full malty backbone and is really pretty balanced for an IPA, even with 70 IBUs. This combination of hops works...

Don't get me wrong, I love a wide variety of styles - porters, stouts, ambers, pale ales, bitters, wit, hefe, etc. And until recently, I wasn't much of a fan of highly hopped beers. I'm not sure what happened, but I've been experimenting with IPAs a lot recently. I've sampled just about every...

1. If you are over forty, and you have a washboard stomach, you are gay. It means you haven't sucked back enough beer with the boys and have spent the rest of your free time doing sit-ups, aerobics, and doing the Oprah diet. 2. If you have a cat, you are a Flaaaaming homo. A cat is like a dog...

I regularly brew with a couple of friends, and we split the spoils of our labor. Sat we brewed up two 10 gal batches (hefeweizen and dunkelweizen). One of the guys has his brew stand about 75% done, so right now we only have one stand to work with. We pipelined both batches on my stand, which...

Brewed two 10 gal batches yesterday with a few locals and got a chance to break in the new stand. I took a few pics and thought I'd share. Deathweed and Jas0420 were two of the guys that came over. Here they are checking out the new wares. We went through almost that entire sack of Maris...

Look what I found while raiding my parents' scrap pile (my step dad picks this stuff up as part of his job sometimes). Now what to do with it. Any ideas??? :D

My order from Austinhomebrew showed up - enough ingredients for 15 gals of 08-08-08 RIS, 10 gals of Ed Wort's Haus Pale Ale, a 5 gal Alt beer, and a 5 gal Tripel Karmeliet extract kit plus various other caps, sugar, sanitizers, etc. Also in the 2nd pic is 1 lb of Fuggles I just got from...

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... then this is it desktop tower defense http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp I can get 8,800+ on the HARD level without losing any lives. :rockin: I think to master the "100", you have to be really good a "shuffling" and "grouping". I don't think I have enough extra time...

Who all is organizing an 08-08-08 event where local guys are brewing together? It seems like this is the perfect time for this. Not only will you feel connected to our forum, but you can spend time hanging out with some of your local brew buddies (who are probably off on New Year's). I'm...

I said I was going to try it out, and I did today. I posted a bunch of pics here, and the process is explained in detail here. Overview I used my 3-tier stand, but since CRDFM only requires 2 vessels I only used the bottom 2 tiers. I placed the MLT on the top and the BK/HLT on the bottom. The...

I tried out the Brutus 20 2-barrel Constant Recirculation Direct Fired Mash (CRDFM) process today, took some pics, and thought I'd share. I opened this thread in the AG forum for discussion about the process. Let's start with Ingredients (7# red wheat, 5# pilsner, 1 oz Hallertau, Safbrew...

I'm brewing a hefeweizen this morning and went with a step mash, starting at 122' (another thread to follow). While I was raising the temp after the protein rest it got me wondering about the differences (any pros and cons) of raising the temp slowly vs a fast water infustion. I'm using a...

Apparently I've been a good little boy this year. ;) I peeked (i.e., SWMBO said place an order) and whattya know - a Barley Crusher with a nice little bow on top and a Thrumometer in my stocking. Hopefully I can finally kiss my 65% efficiency goodbye. What's going to show up under your tree...

Six of us got together yesterday and brewed up three batches. Four of the guys were new to brewing and one of the guys is an extract brewer who hadn't brewed in a few years. We busted out 10 gallons of EdWort's Haus Pale Ale (AG), 5 gallons of Dunkelweizen (PM), and 5 gallons of Doppelbock (PM)...

I've heard about the thrumometer. I ran across this and was wondering if anyone uses one. The only thing I see that's questionable is the operating temperature range (max 158F). Does that mean you'll damage it if you run boiling wort through it or it just won't register that high, which...

Saw this while perusing morebeer's forum. I had stuck with my glass carboys when I was using a wort wizard, but now that I've got a pump, I can get rid of them. I've already had one moment with my carboys. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=31373...

What the hell? Is he the savior or the antichrist? I'm a huge Cowboys fan and he's looked really good so far this year, but this hasn't been pretty tonight.

I saw an ad for a 40 plate chiller, over twice the size of the mighty Therminator. Here's the down side - it was used to chill oil at somebody's work place. He was asking $150, but I asked if he would take $80 and he said yes. Is there a way to clean this thing good enough so that you could...