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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/23 Edition
« on: November 23, 2012, 12:47:06 PM »Are you worried about attenuation or the esters?Mostly attenuation.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/23 Edition
« on: November 22, 2012, 11:17:04 AM »I will be making an English Barleywine on Saturday, using the Yorkshire yeast from my recent Special Bitter.I've been curious how that will do in a barleywine. You'll have to report back.
I have a porter to bottle sometime this weekend.
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Going Pro / Re: Going going gone . . .
« on: November 16, 2012, 10:07:07 PM »
Cool stuff, Tom. It looks like you're brewing at the Phinney location. I'll be back in Seattle in January and I'll be sure to stop by to try a beer after my pilgrimage to Red Mill.
BTW, you should nudge whoever the web person is. I get a domain expired page for http://bluebirdseattle.com/
BTW, you should nudge whoever the web person is. I get a domain expired page for http://bluebirdseattle.com/
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The Pub / Re: THANKYOU VETERANS
« on: November 11, 2012, 11:11:07 AM »
Thank you all for serving. Here's a bonus for you from Midwest Supplies
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/pages/veteran-s-day-2012.html?utm_source=Midwest+Supplies+Customers
(I don't work there, I'm just a happy customer).
http://www.midwestsupplies.com/pages/veteran-s-day-2012.html?utm_source=Midwest+Supplies+Customers
(I don't work there, I'm just a happy customer).
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Ingredients / Re: 2012 Hop Crop?
« on: November 09, 2012, 09:17:54 PM »They said 5pm PST, which is 7pm for me. I got on at about 6:57pm CST and they were almost gone already. I just want to say that I am disappointed, depressed, disheartened. I know they're just hops and all...but come on...They had less than 150 pounds of Citra when I was there at 6:50 or so CST. My guess is that they couldn't get much, since it wasn't from their own farm. So even limiting to 1 pound per order didn't take long to clean them out.
I didn't know they'd post them for sale until 5pm PST until about 3pm my time, so I was hitting refresh ALL DAY. I had even set a reminder a week or two ago to check in the morning. I know life isn't fair and all, but how could they sell out in a matter of minutes? Puts the cherry on top of an already sh*t day.
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Ingredients / Re: 2012 Hop Crop?
« on: November 09, 2012, 06:11:07 PM »Hurry up... I just placed an order and Citra and Amarillo were both down to 40ish left.
I waited until my order went through to post
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Ingredients / Re: 2012 Hop Crop?
« on: November 09, 2012, 05:52:09 PM »
Hops Direct released a bunch more pellets tonight, including Amarillo and Citra. They're going fast, though.
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Ingredients / Re: black malt question
« on: November 01, 2012, 07:18:48 PM »
I think it might vary with maltsters, too. I've usually used English black malt.
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Ingredients / Re: black malt question
« on: November 01, 2012, 02:08:55 PM »Yes.Use it in something like this
http://byo.com/stories/recipeindex/article/recipes/114-stout/2155-sierra-nevada-stout-clone
I brewed something similar and it came out great. None of the ash that some people say they taste.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 11/2 Edition
« on: November 01, 2012, 10:39:06 AM »
I've got ingredients and fresh slurry of 1968 for a Fuller's Porter clone, but I haven't decided the brewday yet. And maybe an AIPA with the other jar of slurry. The wife's away next week, so I can make a mess
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Ingredients / Re: 2012 Hop Crop?
« on: November 01, 2012, 10:33:03 AM »Hopsdirect is starting to release 2012 pellets this Friday, starting with Centennial and Cascade. Farmhouse Brewing Supply has 2012 pellets of Simcoe and Amarillo already available.Now how do you know that?
I can't believe Simcoe and Amarillo are selling out so quickly, it's depressingI want to get my hands on at least a pound of Simcoe this year.
Freshops still has leaf of both, with up to five pounds of Simcoe. I'm well stocked on both, but it's always tempting to buy more
I'm hoping Hopsdirect has some Citra pellets this year. I've done an APA that's got a ton late that my wife loves.
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Equipment and Software / Re: Aquarium heater for controlling fermentation temps
« on: October 30, 2012, 04:53:32 AM »
Bigger is better for the heater. I started with a 35W that was supposed to be good for 15 gallons, but it had a hard time heating everything. I went up to a 50W, which works okay, but I'd go up to 75 or 100 if I was buying another.
+1 to heating the water before adding the fermenter.
+1 to heating the water before adding the fermenter.
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Beer Travel / Fuller's Brewery Tour (with pics)
« on: October 28, 2012, 01:06:51 PM »
I was in London a couple of weeks ago and made the trip out to Chiswick to do the Fuller’s tour. It’s a great time and I highly recommend it, but it will take up half a day. The view is exciting as you walk from the Tube and I could smell the wort as I got closer
The brewery is almost right on the Thames, and it's rather peaceful out back
There’s been a brewery on the site since the mid 17th century, while the current company was formed in 1845. My guide John has worked there for 41 years and a lot of good anecdotes. They’ve run out of space to expand, so they’ve crammed things in everywhere and left some things they can’t remove, like the old mash tun and a kettle.
The hop store. I believe he said their honey blonde used the Liberty hops seen here
You go right through the working brewery, which gets loud, so I missed some of what John said. Some surprises for me: they have only one mash tun and two kettles, but that makes sense given that they partigyle a lot of their beers. They also had some handy signs explaining their process
They used open square fermenters up until the 1990s, and left one of them in place
There were fewer new fermenters than I had guessed
The tour ends in their tasting room, which had all the regular Fullers and Gales beers on cask or tap. (Don't tell CAMRA, but I could hear the cask breather when he used the Gales Seafarer hand pump) He also opened bottles of 1845 and 2011 Vintage Ale. John was straightforward about Gales and said that Fuller's had bought them for their pub estate, but they do maintain the original recipes and use the Gales yeast strain.
John was also surprised when I asked about the Wyeast and White Labs strains. He was sure Fuller's didn't provide their strain to the companies, and of course neither company actually says Fuller's anywhere.
After the tour, I hit the gift shop, which featured Vintage Ale for 1999, 2000, and 2004 on. A 2004 bottle made it back to my cellar. (2001-3 had much smaller production)
Lunch in the pub finished the trip. It's a really good time but it is a time commitment, so keep that in mind if it's your first time in London. I also suggest just filling out their tour request form. I tried emailing first to see if booking from overseas was going to be a problem, and I think that just complicated things.
The brewery is almost right on the Thames, and it's rather peaceful out back
There’s been a brewery on the site since the mid 17th century, while the current company was formed in 1845. My guide John has worked there for 41 years and a lot of good anecdotes. They’ve run out of space to expand, so they’ve crammed things in everywhere and left some things they can’t remove, like the old mash tun and a kettle.
The hop store. I believe he said their honey blonde used the Liberty hops seen here
You go right through the working brewery, which gets loud, so I missed some of what John said. Some surprises for me: they have only one mash tun and two kettles, but that makes sense given that they partigyle a lot of their beers. They also had some handy signs explaining their process
They used open square fermenters up until the 1990s, and left one of them in place
There were fewer new fermenters than I had guessed
The tour ends in their tasting room, which had all the regular Fullers and Gales beers on cask or tap. (Don't tell CAMRA, but I could hear the cask breather when he used the Gales Seafarer hand pump) He also opened bottles of 1845 and 2011 Vintage Ale. John was straightforward about Gales and said that Fuller's had bought them for their pub estate, but they do maintain the original recipes and use the Gales yeast strain.
John was also surprised when I asked about the Wyeast and White Labs strains. He was sure Fuller's didn't provide their strain to the companies, and of course neither company actually says Fuller's anywhere.
After the tour, I hit the gift shop, which featured Vintage Ale for 1999, 2000, and 2004 on. A 2004 bottle made it back to my cellar. (2001-3 had much smaller production)
Lunch in the pub finished the trip. It's a really good time but it is a time commitment, so keep that in mind if it's your first time in London. I also suggest just filling out their tour request form. I tried emailing first to see if booking from overseas was going to be a problem, and I think that just complicated things.
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Commercial Beer Reviews / Re: Binding Römer Pils
« on: October 14, 2012, 08:40:00 AM »Binding however, was held with disdain by my German friends while I lived in the area. Maybe I should try that again next time.
Yeah, I saw that it didn't do well on Ratebeeradvocate also. A fresh pilsner is still such a rare thing in the US, other than BMC of course, so a lot of the enjoyment was how fresh it was.
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Commercial Beer Reviews / Binding Römer Pils
« on: October 13, 2012, 01:41:01 PM »
I'm in Frankfurt, Germany on my way to Spain and saw Binding advertised as Frankfurt's local brewery. I try to heed Michael Jackson's advice and drink local beer whenever I can, so we had this on tap at a small bar in Mainz this afternoon. Wow, everything I've ever heard about fresh German beer is true. This has a lovely malt and hop balance, with a bit more bitterness than I was anticipating. We had two of these as dusk fell over Schillerplatz, before heading off for our train.
I highly recommend Mainz, should you pass this way. It's a very walkable town and St. Stephan's Church has stunning stained glass by Marc Chagall. Some nice nice strolling along the Rhine as well.
I highly recommend Mainz, should you pass this way. It's a very walkable town and St. Stephan's Church has stunning stained glass by Marc Chagall. Some nice nice strolling along the Rhine as well.