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On Saturday I had some friends over for a little tasting. 11 hours later this is what you get. It was an epic night and it took 9 hours before the first beer was spilled. Everyone brought great beers. Bruery - Mrs Stoutfire (750ml) Bruery – Grey Monday Bruery - Black Tuesday...

I am not that into wine so I dont know much about this but I found a local store that has a few brand new magnums of Marilyn Monroe Merlot. They are from 2002 and with the Velvet collectors box. They are selling them for about $40 each but on ebay and other sites these seem to go for $125-300...

So I was about 90% finished building my brewery in my old house this summer and just about to start brewing again when things made a turn for the better and we found ourselves looking for a bigger home which meant no brewing when the house was up for sale. So after brewing two batches this...

I have some bottles of Dark Lord years 2010-2011-2012 and I am looking to trade for some Cantillon. If anyone is interested let me know! Cheers

My old smoker is about dead and I found this on sale at sears for $150 so I figured I would give it a try. I haven’t used a gas smoker in over 15 years but I must say it did a really good job on my ribs. Need to dial it in and get more smoke out of it but the temperature holds really well for...

I have hardly bought a commercial beer besides the Dark Lord, Utopias and the BCS in months maybe a year. But for some reason I decided this is going to be the year of the beer! I have hit at least 8 liquor stores this month alone so It should be interesting at my house this year. I also will...

I also have a bunch of new buds all over the two of my largest plants so hopefully I can get a second small harvest in the late fall. The first harvest filled a bucket to the 5 gallon mark. last year I just got a large bowl full from the same plants. 1/2 are second year and 1/2 are third year.

Amazon.com has carboys on sale again for $25.50 shipped with S&S. You can cancel the S&S after your order if you want and still get the sale price. These usually go OOS in a few days so I would act now if you need them...

just a heads up for anyone interested Utopias is already at some stores. They pushed up the release for this batch to May but some stores already have them or what is left!

10 Gallon batch***** not 5.5 25 lb 9.oz Pale 2 Row 2 lb 4.oz caramunich 9.oz Special B 3.72 oz Liberty hops (60) 1.86 oz Spaltz (5) 2 lb Clear Candi Sugar Irish Moss Wyeast 1214 with starter I mashed at 152 degrees for 60 minutes with a double sparge. This took first for...

I have a buddy heading to Seattle this week. Does anyone know of some good beers that are available in that area that I cant find in Chicago? Any suggestions would be helpful! :mug: Ryan

Well with all the wine kits and the recent group buy it was time to expand. My current brew room is for just fermenting and storage, all the brewing is done outside or in the basement. The new room will be a one stop shop for brewing, storage, fermenting and getting away from the kids! Old room...

Oh lucky day! Maybe... My mother in-laws company was working on a packaging project that is now finished so they get to keep or toss what they were working on. This is what showed up at my house last night. The boxes were all opened and the contents were played with and tested but the wine...

So I would like to step it up and get two barrels in my system. One for Sours only and the other for just ageing stouts and such. I can brew up to 13 gallon batches at this point on my main system but still have my original 6 gallon setup if needed. I was thinking about a used 10 gallon...

Here is the story, I have a 15 gallon plastic conical that I have been using for over a year with no issues. Things got messed up about 5 weeks ago when I had a batch of beer that was ready and I needed to rack it and carbonate it for a party but I was sick as hell. So I forced myself out of bed...

I didn’t see any other threads about this so here we go. I just ordered 2 for $48 delivered, that’s just a few $$ more than the local store sells one for. If this has already been posted please delete. And for those who haven’t used the subscribe and save discount with Amazon its easy just...

Anyone going to the Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer in Chicago this year? http://www.illinoisbeer.com/ its 11/06/2010 I went before and it was a really good time with lots of different beers. My buddy and I will be going to the first tasting at 1.

That is it, I have one free shipping coupon code that expires today that I can’t use. If someone wants it please just reply to this post. I only have this one left so first one to reply gets it. Cheers! :tank: Ryan

I have started using a plate filter recently and the first time it went rather smooth and quickly. However the last three time I filtered my beer during kegging its been a nightmare. I brew 10 gallon batches and the first beer I filtered was 10 gallons and it took just over an hour or so using...

I have everything for doing 10 gallon batches except for a bigger pot. On Blichmanns site they say to use a 20 gallon pot for 10 gallon batches. Where most here seem to use a keggle. But a keggle is what 15 gallons or so? And if so any issues with 90 or 120 minute boils and the pre-boil volumes...