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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: brewing....and music
« on: January 24, 2010, 01:36:38 PM »
Last brew day I set Pandora up with a Umphreys McGee seed. I got Dead, Phish and all things jammy.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Whatcha brewin' this week? - 2009 Dec 23 - Dec 30
« on: December 27, 2009, 10:23:25 AM »
I'll be doing a variation of my Überdampfbier on my newly constructed 3-tier platform. It'll be kind of a DIPA with wheat yeast. Brewing Monday morning.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Dry hopping with pellets
« on: December 13, 2009, 07:53:05 PM »
I have never dry-hopped with pellets. Is there anything in particular that I should be aware of? How about keg-hopping?
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All Grain Brewing / Re: General mash tun advice
« on: November 21, 2009, 09:54:54 AM »
One of the advantages of the Coleman Extreme (70 qt., anyway) is that it has a trough/groove slightly lower than the bottom level that allows maximum drainage. The 70 qt. is also large enough to do reasonably big 10 gallon batches.
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The Pub / Re: Lets get to know each other!
« on: November 14, 2009, 08:42:51 PM »
My name is Doug. I've been homebrewing on my own for about three years now. I did do an assist with a friend and a couple of brew-on-premises batches in the mid 90's though. I am currently doing all grain batches using Denny's C & E Batch Sparge method. Just now trying to get into some of the more technical aspects like water chemistry (well, trying to learn). I started homebrewing in Eugene, Oregon and I am still a member of Eugene's Cascade Brewers Society, but now I live in Brookings, Oregon, just north of the California border. As a matter of fact, I work in California (delivering propane to residential and commercial accounts).
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Ingredients / Re: Brewing With Rosemary?
« on: November 14, 2009, 05:44:11 PM »The brewer at the local brewpub broke some rosemary laced IPA at a recent tapping. I think it might be good if you get the ratio right. This one would have been good with a spicy pasta sauce but was too strong on its own.I'm having a hard time envisioning (entasting?) a rosemary IPA. I am doing much better entasting a rosemary wheat. I imagine a bit of conflict between the heavy hops of an IPA and the herbality of the rosemary.
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Ingredients / Re: Brewing With Rosemary?
« on: November 14, 2009, 12:31:52 PM »
Yeah, well...I may have to revisit the Beetweizen idea now that I am actually mashing.
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Ingredients / Re: Brewing With Rosemary?
« on: November 14, 2009, 10:55:11 AM »
I made a mild gruit with rosemary, lavender and thyme that I enjoyed quite a bit. I don't recall exactly how much I used, but I made a strong tea and added it after fermentation. (If I recall, I didn't get much feedback on it though. Most of the club were reluctant to try a gruit.)
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Kegging and Bottling / Re: Bottling from Kegs.
« on: November 14, 2009, 09:19:01 AM »Scroll down to the bottom of the page to tip #4 here...
http://www.strangebrew.ca/Drew/cheap.html
That's what I've been doing for years and it works great. I usually purge the bottles with CO2 first.
+1.060 ...I'm going to start thinking about how to CO2 purge, though.
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The Pub / Re: Howdy everybody!
« on: November 05, 2009, 08:48:58 PM »
Hello to everyone. This looks to be the place to hang. 