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The Pub / Beer Pouch - Capri Sun for adults...

« on: June 11, 2013, 02:24:10 pm »

http://beerpouch.com

From their site:

4) What can you put in a BeerPouch?
This is the first flexible beverage pouch made for ALL beverages, particularly sparkling or carbonated beverages like soda pop, beer and carbonated energy drinks. We also carefully package wine, juices, water or base ingredients with no BPA or flavor transference.

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The Pub / OnTap Liquid Beer Enchancer - WTF?

« on: June 07, 2013, 07:38:29 pm »

Please tell me this is a joke...

http://ontapbeer.com

From Their website:

OnTap Beer is a revolutionary new way to enjoy beer. Add our liquid beer enhancer to any domestic beer and enjoy a craft brew taste at a fraction of the cost. One OnTap Beer bottle will convert up to 18 domestic 12oz beers into a great tasting brew. Just squeeze a few drops of one of OnTap Beer's great flavors in to a glass of beer you will have in your hands a unique and great tasting beer. Make each beer you drink the same or make each one different. Its up to you how each beer in the case tastes. Which is why we say it is time you get to enjoy Your Beer, Your Way!

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Third Shift Amber

« on: May 26, 2013, 03:28:27 pm »

Well, I saw this on tap at a local bar on the Seaside Boardwalk so I figured I'd give it a go...

It wasn't terrible but it wasn't great or memorable either and while I was drinking it I remarked that I would probably never order another one again. There was something I know I didn't like about it, but couldn't put my finger on it at the time. I logged onto untappd.com to give it a check-in and a rating of 1 star and that's when I saw that it was made by Coors. Sneaky bastids trying to push their swill as a new craft beer brand.

Well, they had me fooled until I tasted it. Way to go Coors Marketing Team!

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The Pub / American Brewery Architecture

« on: May 24, 2013, 12:32:44 pm »

American Brewery Architecture

The Victorian-style American Brewery building is gorgeous.

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The Pub / West Sixth vs Magic Hat

« on: May 21, 2013, 01:36:14 pm »

I've honestly never liked any of magic hat's beer (my wife likes their christmas beer tho) but if this is true I like them even less as a company now...

This is from West Sixth's website so we're only hearing one side of it but their logos look nothing alike to me.

Whole article here

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General Homebrew Discussion / Stone Brewing, Wil Wheaton and Drew Curtis of Fark?

« on: March 21, 2013, 09:25:10 am »

Sounds like a really awesome collab to me!

Stone’s Next Two Collaboration Beers

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Full Sail Session Lager

« on: March 17, 2013, 12:41:45 pm »

It says its a Premium Lager but it tastes more like a Cream Ale to me. Light golden straw color, light body, bright white foamy head, very mild hop aroma and flavor with a pretty dry finish.

Would probably be good ice cold on a hot summer day after mowing the lawn or lounging at the beach.

The real reason I bought it was for the stubby bottles that have labels you can remove unlike Red Stripe that paints them on instead.

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Pimp My System / Even More Brewshed Ideas...

« on: March 11, 2013, 09:36:15 pm »

Found more brewshed designs and thought I would pass them along...

These are from Oaktree Sheds, local place in NJ.




There are alot more at this shutterfly link. Click the view album button.

I really like the idea of having that fold-out bar top, but the shed would obviously need to be alot deeper to fit a good amount of brewing equipment in it and not be cramped.

I was inside one of their basic models today, i think it was 8x10 with 2 front windows on either side of double doors and it seemed like enough room for a brewstand, a few shelving units or cabinets and a couple chairs.

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Beer Recipes / Founder's Dry-Hopped Pale Ale

« on: February 15, 2013, 12:19:08 am »

I found some notes from Jeremy Kosmicki of FBC on another forum so I put together this recipe based on that.

Founder's Dry-Hopped Pale Ale
10A-American Ale-American Pale Ale

Recipe Overview:

Wort Volume Before Boil:	6.00 US gals	Wort Volume After Boil:	5.00 US gals
Volume Transferred:	5.00 US gals	Water Added To Fermenter:	0.00 US gals
Volume At Pitching:	5.00 US gals	Volume Of Finished Beer:	5.00 US gals
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity:	1.046 SG	Expected OG:	1.055 SG
Expected FG:	1.012 SG	Apparent Attenuation:	76.4 %
Expected ABV:	5.6 %	Expected ABW:	4.4 %
Expected IBU (using Tinseth):	31.2 IBU	Expected Color (using Morey):	6.8 SRM
BU:GU ratio:	0.57
Mash Efficiency:	75.0 %
Boil Duration:	60.0 mins
Fermentation Temperature:	64 degF

Fermentables:

Ingredient	Amount	%	Time
US 2-Row Malt	8lb 0oz	80.0 %	In Mash
US Carapils Malt	1lb 0oz	10.0 %	In Mash
US Munich 20L Malt	8oz	5.0 %	In Mash
US Caramel/Crystal 40L Malt	8oz	5.0 %	In Mash

Hops:

Variety	Alpha	Amount	IBU	Form	Time
US Cascade	4.5 %	1.75 oz	31.2	Pellet	60 Min from End
US Cascade	4.5 %	2.00 oz	0.0	Pellet	Dry-Hopped
US Crystal	3.5 %	2.00 oz	0.0	Pellet	Dry-Hopped

Yeast:
White Labs WLP001-California Ale

Mash Schedule:

Mash Type:	Full Mash
Schedule Name:	Single Step Infusion (68C/154F) w/Mash-Out

Step Type	Temperature	Duration
Rest at	154 degF	60min
Raise to and Mash Out at	171 degF	10min

BTW converting this html to bbcode was a huge pita so if you like the way it looks feel free to copy my table code and use it as a template for when you post recipes.

Thanks!
Tonyp

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General Homebrew Discussion / Beer Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi Tap List for His Home Brews

« on: February 14, 2013, 06:17:03 pm »

Beer Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi Tap List for His Home Brews

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Commercial Beer Reviews / Founder's Dry-Hopped Pale Ale

« on: February 14, 2013, 04:35:07 pm »

Absolutely fantastic! The hop aroma and flavor are awesome. As soon as you open the bottle you get blasted with a nose-full of cascade. So good it'll make you wanna smack your mama!

Founder's just keeps hitting it out of the park for me, another home run in my opinion.

Highly recommended.

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The Pub / Pliny Documentary

« on: January 26, 2013, 09:49:30 am »

A short video about Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny the Younger

(and they pronounce it 'pliney' not 'plinny', hah! )

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Equipment and Software / BrewPi - Raspberry Pi-based Fermentation Controller

« on: October 02, 2012, 12:21:32 pm »

BrewPi - Raspberry Pi-based Fermentation Controller

"BrewPi is an open source fermentation controller that runs on an Arduino (for now) and a Raspberry Pi. It can control your beer temperature with 0.1 degree precision, log temperature data in nice graphs and is fully configurable from a web interface. If you are not into brewing, but do like to thinker with electronics, give the article a read. I had to invent many little things that could be very helpful for other projects too. I can think of a lot of cool things you could that involve controlling an Arduino from a web browser."

BrewPi website

edit: added BrewPi website link

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General Homebrew Discussion / One of the best brew days ever

« on: September 26, 2012, 05:04:57 pm »

I'm really lucky to have friends that love craft beer and who also love the brewing process. My wife and I have had them over on a few brew days and I find teaching how to brew almost as satisfying as brewing.

As part of my friend Jessica's birthday gift, I ordered an extract kit of a "fat tire" clone (one of her favorite beers) and invited her over to brew it at our place. She was so excited! I only made the starter, setup the equipment, and answered questions, I let her do everything else.

Right in the middle of heating up the water it started to rain so we moved everything under the metal awning attached to the house and continued undeterred. The rain kept getting worse and worse and turned out to be the worst storm we've had all summer. We used beach umbrellas to shield us from the wind and rain but there was still almost an inch of water that slowly crept up as we moved closer and closer to the house. It was miserable, and turned out to be the most fun brewing we've ever had.

We unanimously named it Rainy Day Ale and three weeks later we presented it to her on her birthday. It was deliclous. I don't know what was better, the brew day, the beer or the smile on her face when she opened the bottle and took her first sip.

She did a fantastic job and we all had a great time. I highly recommend doing this for your friends, you'll be happy you did! I know I was!

tony

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Ingredients / How to make Flaked Maize/Corn?

« on: September 18, 2012, 03:42:39 pm »

Anyone know of the proper procedure for making flaked corn? We have amazing locally grown sweet corn here in jersey and i'd like to start using it in my cream ales. I searched a bit but didn't find much that helped.

Any help appreciated,

Thanks!
Tonyp