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I'd be really interested in this! I have a HERMS electric brewing system based on Kal's theelectricbrewery.com set up but I'm moving from a house to a small NYC apartment. I love all grain and the electric set up. Consider something like the Braumeister on the morebeer.com website or a...

Graduation is coming up in May, but I match into residency sooner than that, so the time is almost here for opening the saison I bottled a little over a year ago (10/31/13). I bottled 12 in Belgian bottles with corks and cages and the rest went in Grolsch bottles that I have been tasting...

Finally back in business brewing after moving and settling into working in a hospital. I'm going to brew this today Chshre, thanks for the recipe! I have a floor corker so I'm gonna get all fancy and bottle it in Belgian bottles with cages just for a little somethin, somethin. I'll let you know...

Thanks Soup! I contacted Zach and he gave me some advice. Glad to know you like it so much! This is a little bit of a birthday gift to myself. Can't wait to use it!

I'm planning on getting a hop spider for my rig so I can ditch the bazooka tube and run a dip tube closer to the bottom of my pot. Here's the problem I'm having: The boil kettle I ended up purchasing was wider than it is tall (and I pay for it every brew day in evaporation). I was thinking of...

I'm planning on getting a hop spider for my rig so I can ditch the bazooka tube and run a dip tube closer to the bottom of my pot. Here's the problem I'm having: The boil kettle I ended up purchasing was wider than it is tall (and I pay for it every brew day in evaporation). I was thinking of...

Not so great :-( temp control was great but it just tasted too yeasty. Had a little banana. It tasted like an expired wells banana bread ale. I'm on vacation so I've been gone for a bit. When I get back in town I'll taste it again and see if age has treated it well

Finally got the first bine to wrap around! 1st year Willamette. One of the cascade bines is about to make it too in another pot

Looks real good ChshreCat! I'm keeping this in the forefront. I wouldn't want to mess with it too much, but I'm thinking of maybe using this as a base and adding a little here a little there. I just want something that starts a little extreme green but ages into something amazing, though that...

I've been interested in Lambics, but I know a lot of people that once they use certain equipment for a lambic, they'll only use it for lambics. Not sure if I want to make that much of a commitment. Can lambics age in bottles? I'd rather brew something that didn't have to sit in a...

Looks awesome! I don't think you can "train the vine back down" though. The vine will naturally want to fight gravity. What you can do is let out slack from the staked down side and that would allow more room to grow up. Does that make sense? There's probably a good way to support the vine...

Just for future reference, be careful with clove unless you have time to let it age. They're so small and non-intimidating we threw 2 in at flame-out on a spiced apple beer last fall and the clove was WAY overpowering. We put the beer away because we couldn't drink it. When we found it a few...

I haven't totally fleshed out the details on this one, but here's my spring board...I've made a saison kit before, and I've made some of my own clone recipes from scratch, but this is my first saison, so any input on the matter MUCH appreciated. Later tonight I'll look in my "Designing Great...

This is turning into a good discussion. I read a bunch of the Revvy thread and I liked what he was doing. He made a large beer starting with a California Ale yeast until he got the gravity down fairly low, then when the alcohol climbed he moved to a belgian yeast. I like this concept because as...

Besides the my not-so-ageable favorites with dry hop flavors, I really like saisons and some of the less sweet belgians. Anything there that I can age for a couple years?