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If anyones looking for a fun beer and brewing inspired mobile game/app check out Ziggy the Beer Yeast. It was just released. I stumled across it on google play looking for new games. Its only 99cents. Im quite pleased so far. Its a simple game. Ziggy is a cartoony yeast. You choose a beer...

Ok. I need some input. Just to see if I really did observe what I thought I did. And where better than to seek it than where an assortment of folks with vaired experiences may shine some light upon my quandry? So we were out of town for the weekend and opted for pizza. I go in to pick it up...

With the other music threads. I thought I might see if I can kick one off for music that isn't the easiest to classify. Unique, eclectic, obscure, retro-electroinc fusions. If you think it's catchy and most of your friends have no clue what you're listening to put it here! :ban: I'll start with...

Well, I finally have enough posts on my blog up to start spreading the word about Toons'n'Brew Just as it sounds, it's about cartoons and beer. I've still got quite a lot of work to do, adding links, an onsite gallery rather than my Deviant Art one. Just posted a short I did. Got a couple...

I'm being lazy, didn't want to root around the net for research. But I figured someone here's bound to know or have a good idea. What's the darkest roast malt we can use as a base and still get fermentable sugars from mashing? I'm working on a historically inspired ale. I dig browns, which...

Well, I finally did it. Just ordered me some hop rhizomes. Now I need to set about finding the best way to grow 'em, as vertical isn't an option. lol

So I decided to checkout the website/forums for my local home brewers association. I've really kicked my brewing into high gear and thought I'd start mingling with the crow around here. Well, I sign up hit the forums and find the few recent posts are many weeks old. Then find that the site...

So I finally have a beer named for something I wanted to do for a while now. I'm looking for ideas on how to get a noticeable, yet pleasant, alcoholic warmth in a brew. I've been looking around on line and it seems, I've got some Belgian beers to try out. I can't remember the name of it but I...

I just decided to post this here. I brewed me up a lazy beer the other night. Using 6lbs of DME I had sitting around that was intended for my resurrection ale, but the yeast gave up and I don't have the will to start the process all over yet. Just wondering if anyone's got a ballpark ABV on...

So I've been not managing to get to my beer supply store for days to get yeast so I can make a lazy extract batch. Well it occurred me this morning that I had a jar of yeast in the fridge from my first all grain batch, so I could get in the habit and practice of keeping yeast in reserve...

It would appear that my "Frankenyeast" has given up the fight. I think I accidentally shocked it when I made a fresh starter wort. I've let it sit quite long enough for it to pick back up but there is not hint of activity. Some may recall the top secret project I mentioned. That yeast. My...

So I have great interest in brewing the odd traditional or historic beer. So I dredge the internets for any snippet I can of what beer used to be. I always say the most traditional thing about beer is ingenuity, just seeing what happens with this ingredient or that. Then I got to wondering...

That is all. lol. Finally worked up the chutzpah to try it. No more just saying it. Not much of a fish person, and don't care for wasabi or seaweed, so sushi for the most part has been out. Now, I like salmon. Yeah I know, not a fish person....it's the exception. lol Sooo I decided to try...

So I finally got around to picking up some Stone beer. After ages of the gargoyle staring me down as I passed by, I finally decided "new beer day"! Picked up the Levitation Ale, Smoked Porter, and Ruination. On the levitation now. It's quite good. The label's right, so much flavor it doesn't...

So I was wonderin' if there's anyone else like me that have beer recipes and experiments they keep under wraps? So far I just have one recipe in the works and a test batch already brewed and mostly consumed. lol I did a little bit of rooting around and hadn't managed to find a beer of it's...

So there I was in the kitchen thinking about racking my new recipe into secondary to put it in the garage for some nature powered cold crashing. When all of a sudden I hear "bloop-bloop". It appears that my yeast has gotten a second wind. Generally my usual yeast is pretty safely finished...

My French beer thread didn't get any comments on this so I'm just askin' the question. =) I tried Belzebuth and it's 13% ABV and isn't in any way a barley wine, how? It's rather sweet and malty, but is some of that coming from added sugar to push up the ABV without making a barley wine...

Well I've tried my second French Beer, Belzebuth! I've gotta say it's pretty darned good with a 13% ABV kick. Medium bodied, smoot, definite presence of the alcohol. Thoughoddly enough for such a high ABV beer it doesn't come across as a barely wine at all. Most every beer I've tried 10% and...

I just got an email notice of Brew Toppers opening. I ran across them some time ago looking for places that made custom bottle caps. There's not too much on the site right now beyond their own selection of cap designs, but it's a start. Brew Toppers

Ok well I just bottled my "botched" beer the other day. It came out super cloudy, I attributed it to excess starch from the really light crystal malts I used. I figured it was possible with really light crystal malt. Anyhoo come bottling day I had myself some of the flat leftovers. It's...