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Odell is my favorite in Ft. Collins, followed by Equinox. There are so many great breweries in Ft. Collins, though, you really can't go wrong. I love Oskar Blues, always have. If you want to eat I would recommend the original place in Lyons over the (MUCH bigger) place in Longmont. I haven't...

I've split a cow with my sister and her husband a few times. Well, I take 1/3, they take 2/3. We try to split everything relatively evenly when possible. There's only one brisket, so I take it (I have a smoker) and invite them over to dinner when I smoke it. There is only one flank and skirt...

I brewed it a while back and it was fantastic as-is. I think blood oranges would be a great addition and would work well.

I'll chime in late as well. I don't find that this board is sexist, no. I mostly lurk but I'm here reading most days and feel like the tone given to women posting is the same as that given to men. I do roll my eyes a bit at the "women don't like beer", "women don't like messes", "women don't...

Personally, I love it when I see a list of ingredients for any beer I drink. One of the reasons I originally started brewing was that I was diagnosed with an illness that's basically a delayed allergic reaction to certain foods (eosinophilic esophagitis). One of the foods I shouldn't eat is...

I often get a similar reaction when people find out I brew beer, especially because I'm a single woman. Typically they first ask me how much money I save by brewing my own, like that must be my goal. I usually don't say how much I spend, only that I'm definitely NOT brewing to save money.

It is illegal in Colorado to gather rain water or re-use graywater, but I agree with LLBeanJ that most likely no one is going to knock on your door to stop you from reusing your wort chilling water. http://water.state.co.us/SURFACEWATER/SWRIGHTS/Pages/RainwaterGraywater.aspx

I did the plasti-dip thing after reading this: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/trying-solve-carboy-problem-129920/index7.html Seemed better than nothing!

After reading this and other horror stories I put a pretty thick layer of clear plasti-dip on my carboys. The plasti-dip makes me feel a bit better, but I'm still VERY careful with them. It seems that they'll need another layer soon, the plasti-dip scratches off pretty easily.

I said nothing about "Utah beer" percentage. I was speaking about Colorado grocery store beer, using a commonly used term, "3.2". I guess I should have left off the "%" and bolded the Colorado...

I worked at Lake Powell in the late '80s and we used to send someone to Durango to get a keg whenever we wanted to have a big party. Luckily no one ever got caught. A lot of the tourists brought "party balls" with them for their houseboats, at the time I was told they were legal but they're...

I second NB Kama Citra. It was gone very fast, a few friends of friends asked me if they could buy some but I couldn't part with what little I had left!

Email sent.

Very left-dominant. Eye, foot, hand, you name it. My mom is also a lefty but both of my kids are right-handed.

Are they going to be going through the Denver area? If not they might have trouble getting fresh IPAs in South Fork, It's a bit out of the way. If they are I definitely recommend Oskar Blues, Odell's, and Avery. Ska is in Durango, that might work as well. I'm not much of a fan of New Belgium or...

One of my favorites is The Ref.

Since I started brewing I've been drinking more often than I used to, about 5 days per week. I always drink about the same amount, 2 beers or glasses of wine. I love to cook and really enjoy a drink while I'm cooking dinner. I recently read that women shouldn't have more than 7 drinks per week...

If you say so. All I know is that I'm SUPER picky about my flavors and IPAs are my favorite style. Maybe I just got lucky, or maybe the thermometer on my carboy is off a degree or two.

I just finished an IPA with this yeast, kept the temp at 63F - 64F the entire time. It's the best beer I've made so far, no 'peachy' flavors for me.

Thanks! It did occur to me that maybe the thermometer was off a bit, but it's a brand new one from Northern Brewer, the one provided with my kettle (a MegaPot). I thought about boiling longer but didn't know what that might do to the wort so I didn't. Generally how much volume should boil off in...