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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.
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Beer Recipes / Re: Avery IPA recipe
« on: October 08, 2012, 09:59:51 AM »jeff - how do you set the utilization in Beersmith2 - having trouble...It's in the equipment profile. But it's for all additions.
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Commercial Beer Reviews / Re: Timothy Taylor's Landlord
« on: October 07, 2012, 03:27:20 PM »Speaking as the Yank in the UK that I am.I've only ever had it on cask so I would hesitate to buy it in a bottle in the US. I remember being excited to get Fullers' Porter over here and being very disappointed. It was a completely different beer compared to what I'd had in England.
Landlord is a good solid ale. One thing I find is that it varies from year to year in taste. I don't know if it is the Golden Promise malt but it seems to swing with the seasons. The one thing it has going wrong with it is that Madonna said it was her favorite beer a few years ago and that riled the locals up a bit. Regardless, it is a much better out of a hand pump thna it is out of a bottle.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: Research papers or studies on homebrewing's contribution craft beer industry?
« on: October 07, 2012, 09:21:52 AM »
I'm a business librarian by trade and IME, economic studies don't look at factors like you are after, so it may be difficult to pull it together. Most empirical work focuses on industries at a much more macro level. That said, here's where I would start, assuming you don't have access to subscription databases
http://econpapers.repec.org
Free database of scholarly economic literature. In some cases you can get the articles for free, but many will be behind paywalls. One problem you'll encounter is that homebrew can also mean software.
http://www.beeronomics.org/
The Beeronomics Society. This might help you identify researchers in the field.
If you can get to a database that sources trade publications, there may be more popular sources that do talk about some of this. These publications are almost always behind paywalls, but libraries subscribe to sources that include the text.
http://econpapers.repec.org
Free database of scholarly economic literature. In some cases you can get the articles for free, but many will be behind paywalls. One problem you'll encounter is that homebrew can also mean software.
http://www.beeronomics.org/
The Beeronomics Society. This might help you identify researchers in the field.
If you can get to a database that sources trade publications, there may be more popular sources that do talk about some of this. These publications are almost always behind paywalls, but libraries subscribe to sources that include the text.
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General Homebrew Discussion / Re: What's Brewing This Weekend - 9/28 Edition
« on: September 29, 2012, 07:44:03 AM »
My bitter went smoothly, so I'm brewing my tweaked Ranger IPA clonish recipe this morning. I can't quite get the hop profile.
Today's schedule
Simcoe FWH
Chinook @ 60
Simcoe @20
Cascade @ 5
I'll dry hop with a load of Cascade
My previous attempts have been tasty, but Ranger is one of my wife's favorites so I'd like to be able to get close to it.
Today's schedule
Simcoe FWH
Chinook @ 60
Simcoe @20
Cascade @ 5
I'll dry hop with a load of Cascade
My previous attempts have been tasty, but Ranger is one of my wife's favorites so I'd like to be able to get close to it.
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The Pub / New button finally fixed?
« on: September 28, 2012, 05:02:48 PM »
It's suddenly working for me in Firefox. Did I just jinx things?