Recent content by andvari7

One. My first batch in over two years, I brewed a one-gallon, extract kit, that Northern Brewer (the only HBS near me, and, being based in Minneapolis, it's as local as it gets) claims to be a Pliny The Elder clone. I'll know next week if it's any good. I might do a one-gallon all-grain kit...

I used to love it, but after having a bottle of New Glarus' cherry beer, I'll never go back.

Pumpkin beers. I get pumpkin spice latte, but I have yet to get a pumpkin beer I can stand.

Since nobody has been able to confirm this, I am going to assume that it was a false alarm.

Let me be clear: I am NOT being forced to move anywhere because of beer. I am moving to the Twin Cities for a job. A real job. But, I like drinking craft beer. I like making beer. I need to find my next residence in the next month or two, and I was wondering what neighborhoods are the most...

Waldos' Special, a crazy-dank from Lagunitas. It's great, but I couldn't drink more than one in a sitting.

Nothing, since the collection ball. However, I will be getting a major non-brewing item: a new set of boxing gloves - training gloves, to be specific. My parents bought me a bag for Christmas, and the gloves they got were too small, and they're already falling apart. Bad QC.

I have a collection ball, which FastFerment sent to me, in exchange for a review on Northern Brewer. I basically said that the product was fine, but that it represented something more fundamentally important: an affordable conical. Unfortunately, due to my current budgetary restrictions, to be...

That's why I skipped this year's Madison event. Clueless staff, iffy organization, few taps. Plus, the next day was my nephew's baptism, and I didn't want to be hung over.

I received a collection ball for a FastFerment that I don't own. It'll have to wait until I get a new job, so that I can get a new induction burner, a FastFerment, and a BrewJacket. In due course, I suppose.

You know, being a lifelong resident of the Madison areaI sort of take New Glarus beer for granted.

I'm getting a free collection ball. I should probably get the FastFerment, too. If I get the BrewJacket, then I will have a rig capable of making whatever beer I want, apart from the weird ones.

I started on cello, and regularly play guitar, bass, drums, and sing. I would say that I have a working knowledge of about a dozen instruments, but I would never describe myself as a master of any of them.

I'm in an incredible slump - I haven't brewed since July 4, and I can't seem to get back into it. I want to, badly, but with a leaky immersion chiller that I can't seem to fix, and absolutely no way to get the temps down low enough with a minimal footprint/budget, it has ground to a standstill...

A 2013 Chimay blue, which I had been aging. It was saturated with subtle flavors; that may sound contradictory, but compound it, and it will make sense.