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The plan is for a brewery, however there is a timeline in the plan that (as of now) is 5 years deep, one of the plans is to open up a brewpub. A hop growing project isn't far behind the brewpub on the timeline.

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One of the last 2 classes I have to take before I graduate is a Small Business Entrepreneur class where the final project is a 30 - 40 page business plan. I, naturally, decided to do mine on a microbrewery. Does anyone have any good sources of information for how much a typical...

Tons of beer, fireman's chili, tons of beer, and a belgian beer tent. I got a sample glass for $2 and a Brewfest Tshirt for $10. Sierra Nevada makes some AMAZING mustard with their stout. It was delicious.

I want to try making a pumpkin porter. I've only made a pumpkin beer once, and used pumpkin puree (never again). I wish I could've had it ready by Halloween, but I'll be lucky if I have it ready by next freakin Halloween. F***ing school. =/ Good luck with the pumpkin brew BTW, color looks...

I've been enjoying some Guinness lately, both the draught and extra stout, and I've often thought it tastes a bit like (black) olives. I'm not crazy, someone else pointed this out, and other people have agreed (think about olives next time you enjoy a Guinness). Anyway, I had a bizarre...

This man is a genius. I shipped via Fed Ex before, bottles got a little shaken up in transit (my friend said the beer was a bit cloudy) but other than that, it went fine. I would, however, suggest waiting until it cools off a bit. It's still really hot where I live and my UPS / Fed Ex...

The bottling wand is what fell apart mid-bottling

Awesome :mug:

I'm going, this will be the first year the brewfest is happening since I turned 21. Can't wait. It starts in less than 1 hour

FTW :cross: I kept the splashing to a minimum by only opening the spigot about halfway and pouring sideways down the side of the bottle. Imperfect, but it got the job done. EDIT: sorry, didn't fully answer question, I did NOT use the tubing after the bottle filler fell apart, only the spigot...

I had a fun time bottling a batch of beer today, I finally got to packaging my Rhizome IPA, the only beer I was able to make with my freshly grown / picked hops. First, I forgot to tighten the spigot on my bottling bucket, so beer started to ooze all over the floor until I realized it...

Awesome. Next time I'll mix the grain with a lot of hot water instead of pouring a pot over it. And I'll use less water, I didn't think using a lot of water would reduce the amount of sugars you get out of the grain. Thanks for all the input guys

I sparge one pot at a time and boil them both down until they can fit into 1 pot, then combine and go on with my boil. Since I started sparging with my earlier mentioned bucket full o' holes & pot of recently boiled water, I noticed I was getting great SG's, often higher than expected. Perhaps...

TOO MUCH water? There is such a thing? I figured the more water that the grains had to move around in, the more easily the sugars get sucked out. The constant stirring was something I just started doing since I've been worried about getting all the 'juice' out of the grains. For...

For some strange reason, I've been getting much lower Starting Gravity numbers than I'm expecting. Most recently, I used 12 lbs of grain (and 3 lb of turbinado sugar), and got a SG of 1.040 for 5 gallons. I've been concerned about this for awhile, since this has happened a few times. I...

I just harvested my first year plants, so I'm really a noob. Anyway, watch out for spiders, I discarded any cones that had webbing all over them. If I didn't use them immediately in a freshly hopped IPA, I would've used a food dehydrator on a pretty low setting to dry them until brittle, and...

Today's quite a day. Right now it's just past 6:30 AM, and as soon as I finish this 2nd cup of coffee, I'm off to pick my (first year) centennial hops for some dry hopping action for my Rhizome IPA (very basic IPA). Then I'm meeting my brew buddy and we're brewing my Zombie IPA (moderately...

I use photoshop for the artwork, linen paper (any nicely textured paper will do) for the labels, a nice fancy laser printer (at my university) for the printing, a paper cutter, and 3M spray adhesive for the glue. Haven't tried milk yet, I'm a little reluctant to have sour milk smells :)

I like it, but if I may offer a suggestion; Personally I like to have my signature somewhat subtle on my artwork, so people focus on the label instead of my name, but if you like it that way then that's cool too. Also, I might make the mamba's fangs and overall shape a little sharper, the...