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All Grain Brewing / Re: Black IPA?

« on: July 30, 2010, 07:13:00 am »

Currently having an IPA and Schwarzbier on tap I'm finding the combination of 2/3 IPA & 1/3 Schwarzbier is the shcitz!!! The Carafa II in the Schwarzbier is what's giving it a very nice, smooth roasted flavor.  If/when I brew a Black IPA, that's the route I'm taking; a combination of the two recipies.

This is my FAVORITE part of having a kegerator (aside from not bottling).

I loooove blending beers on tap to figure out new recipes. My favorite so far is 3/4 Kolsch with 1/4 Trad. Bock. If Spaten brewed an Amber, I think it would taste something like this...

Cool, that sounds good.  I've been doing the same thing.  I have a dark amber and a dry IPA on tap, mixing the two is a nice blend. 

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Beer Recipes / Re: Oktoberfest!

« on: July 29, 2010, 10:10:37 am »

I love Spaten-Munich Octoberfest!  Great beer.

I'm brewing an ale version of Octoberfest this weekend using Wyeast 1007.

5lbs Pils (castle)
5lbs light Munich
1lb dark munich
1/2lb caramunich (56L)
1oz hallertau at 60min
1oz hallertau at 30 min.
Wyeast 1007.

Should be good I'm hopin'. 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Cask of my Pro Am beer is on now

« on: July 29, 2010, 09:53:29 am »

Kickass dude.  Wish I could try it.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Finding suprises in the garage (what to do with an old brew)

« on: July 28, 2010, 10:51:46 am »

I think you'd be surprised at the amount of yeast left, but yeah pitching yeast is always a good bet.

Also, I have to say - finding lost carboys is fun. I once found a carboy full of 9 year old date mead that got lost in a closet.

Wow really?  I don't know how one forgets about something like that.  I usually can't stop thinking about it and waiting for it to be ready to drink.

On the original topic, finding that beer in a garage that isn't climate controlled, I'd be worried about how the beer even turned out...

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 7/30 Edition

« on: July 28, 2010, 10:48:46 am »

I think I'm going with a mocktoberfest beer brewed with hallertau hops and wyeast 1007.  Hopefully it'll be tasty.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Grand Total Post Count (not just here)

« on: July 27, 2010, 11:57:56 am »

I would bet Denny has tens of thousands. 

Probably, but I don't wanna know!

Quality, not quantity.  Which seems to be besides the point of this thread

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The Pub / Re: Running out of IP addresses

« on: July 26, 2010, 02:48:42 pm »

2012 here we come...

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The Pub / Re: Worlds Strongest Beer

« on: July 26, 2010, 02:46:54 pm »

Lame...

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Grand Total Post Count (not just here)

« on: July 26, 2010, 02:25:50 pm »

please don't bring up that name again...the flood of posts by him unfortunately turned me off to a certain forum...

He doesn't really post there anymore.  Although I have looked to see if he didn't just quit going there altogether and he visits regularly, just doesn't post.  Fortunately. 
At least I haven't seen him post in more than a month.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Grand Total Post Count (not just here)

« on: July 26, 2010, 10:31:21 am »

It's not quantity, it's quality!

Beerider comes to mind...haha. 

I personally don't care about my post count.  I really only post when I have something I feel worth of contributing.  I don't just post for the sake of posting. 

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Congrats, Majorvices!

« on: July 26, 2010, 10:28:22 am »

Congrats, Keith.  Glad to hear it's all going well and that you'll be up and running soon.  Cheers & beers!


Jesse

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Forced to buy beer

« on: July 21, 2010, 01:35:05 pm »

No one has mentioned one of the best things about buying commercial beer: free bottles!...unless you keg, then you dont care, but for us bottlers that is always a plus

Gotta watch out for the breweries that use screwtops though.  Goose is one of them.

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The Pub / Re: What does “craft beer” mean to you?

« on: July 21, 2010, 08:25:57 am »

I stopped in a Montana roadside tavern last Saturday morning, and I crafted a beer.......

I asked the bartender to add a small dose of Clamato juice to the pint of PBR he just drew me.

Yeah it's called Red beer...people down at my local bar do this alot.  Add about an inch of tomato juice to the bottom of the pint glass then pour a can of PBR in to blend.  I wouldn't wanna do it as I'm good with PBR.  But I can see how someone could like it.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Forced to buy beer

« on: July 20, 2010, 01:16:12 pm »

You should check it out for sure.  I don't know about buying them all, you might not like it then you'll have a bunch of it that you won't want to drink.  Can't wait for the Harvest Ale to come out, that's some tasty stuff.

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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Forced to buy beer

« on: July 20, 2010, 11:48:11 am »

So I got curious and ran down to the store during lunch.  bottle date was 2/24/10 for 7.99.  I was going to try it but alas, the fiver in my wallet was not enough.

Well is says here (http://www.gooseisland.com/pages/our_beers/3.php) on their website that they don't offer the brown and the oatmeal stout in bottles anymore...so that sixer must be from before they stopped doing that.  I think it was sometime this year that they decided to stop bottling those 2 beers.