Recent content by WaltStarr

I'm not very concerned about the small quantities of glyphosate in food products. It can even be found on "organic" foods, so there's no getting around it. People who live in rural areas will be exposed to much more simply driving down a road at certain times of the year than most people are in...

Yeast strains are unique to the location where they originate. The yeast I can get from my back yard is not the same as what can be obtained from yours. Each will have their own characteristics, or terroir. The hops and barley grown in his soil will have their own characteristics based upon the...

There are tons of videos on YouTube explaining he procedure.

Okay, this is totally cool! It doesn't get more local than growing your own hops and barley, then malting the barley, unless you capture and propagate some local wild yeasts to ferment with! :rockin:

I would say this is more dependent upon how saturated the local market is. The more saturated, the better the beer overall. If there's only a single brew pub within fifty miles and local stores just don't stock much craft beer, the likelihood of bad beer in that brew pub can go up.

You see this play out precisely as you describe in areas with a LOT of microbreweries, such as North-Eastern Colorado. The bad micro-breweries don't even really get in the door to sell their products much because the competition is so tight only good brews can make it. The problem described...

I rack to secondary if I'm leaving it age for longer than another week, otherwise I leave in primary and rack to a keg.

Flippant insults are unbecoming and indicative of a mediocre mind.

BMC beer is why I DESPISED beer until I tasted New Belgian Brewing Fat Tire (back when you could only get it in 22 oz. bottles and the bottle had yeast sediment).

I wonder if they designed it special so you have to insert an InBev engineered beer base cartridge in order to use the thing. Sort of like the InBev beer answer to Keurig coffee makers.

The target audience would be apartment dwelling hipsters, though a sixer of beer doesn't amount to much of a rooftop gathering.

Give us $80 to add flavors to our flavorless beer! Then tell your friends you "home brewed" our flavorless beer with added flavors! A fool and their money.....

Think of it in terms of chilling wort with ground water in July.

You should buy ingredients where everybody should buy ingredients, your FLHBS.