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I have a question. My wife and I have been doing some playing around with cider for the last several months and have had some decent results using English Cider yeast. After reading much of CvilleKevin's threads on using ale yeasts I decided to do some experimenting. We made up a batch of...

Just wanted to say we had a blast at NHC. I didn't get to chat with as many folks as I would've liked but I enjoyed partying with everyone there. My local club in WA, The Greater Everett Brewers League spent gobs of time designing our stand and making a video to show at it. We were honored...

I have been watching Craigslist for a large fridge for several months now. With the NHC coming to Seattle and me being in one of the larger HB Clubs here, the regular competition brewers in the club have being asked by our club to be prepared to brew a bunch of extra beer for the NHC. Well you...

Sat Aug 6th All day homebrewers festival in the Puyallup, WA area. Homebrew served all day by local clubs and overnight camping. WHAT IS BEERSTOCK 5060?: Beerstock 5060 is a private festival for Wa state home brewers that celebrates the repeal of an old law on the WA books that made it...

OK. Nothing earth shattering here. A fairly traditional Bavarian Hef grist. This beer did very well in competition getting a first in style in a local contest with 650 entries, then going to a mini BOS at the regional NHC, and advancing and taking 1st in the HBT contest. In the HBT contest in...

I have a question. I didn't find an answer to this on several searches on and off the board. I have been trying to conceive a recipe for a fruit lambic off of a Flanders Brown base, although this question could pertain to several styles. I was thinking that in the case of souring bacteria...

Had one of those nasty unrecoverable brew day events today. Ended up putting about 12 gallons of wort down the utility sink drain late this afternoon. I was gonna do my first parti-gyle today with an English IPA followed by an English Bitter. So I mashed in with 28 lbs of grain in my herms...

Just heard yesterday, Roger Waters is going to tour and perform The Wall in 2010. http://www.outsidethewall.net/rogerwaters2006.html I am a huge fan of that album and thought seeing Aussie Floyd perfrom it last year was as a close as I was gonna come to the real deal. I had to snag some...

Hi All. Just want to let Pacific Northwest locals know the Everett based brewers club Greater Everett Brewers League is hosting an IPA only competition in late May. (Yes, I am affiliated) It is a unique elimination format with no cap on amount of entries. I will post the official particulars...

Just got a 750ml bottle of Saison Dupont last week. I really enjoy this saison and was looking forward to it. I popped the cork Sunday night and sat back with the G/F to watch some DVD's. I lifted the tulip glass up to take sip and as I inhaled......skunk! Nooooo. I poured the G/F a glass...

I have a question. I was reading the NHC entry guidelines, and they say that cork and wire bottles are acceptable for Belgian entries, but the bottle must be between 10 and 14 oz. I tried several searches and it looks like just about all the bottles and corking information out there pertains to...

I just found this seller on ebay in Texas today and snagged one. He has used 20lb aluminum co2 tanks at a decent price, and he is claiming they will come with a new hydro test. No affiliation http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170414640293

These guys are pretty good. Beer inspired musical Holiday Cheer.

I just thought I'd solicit a little feedback on this question as I have been flip flopping in my head, although I think the answer is fairly obvious. Just looking for reassurance I guess. I just brewed a moderately big IPA that I feel pretty good about and I want to put into a couple...

Seller in CA has refurbished 3 gallon corny kegs with some dents. $60 . No affiliation. I grabbed one today for the heck of it. Looks like 1 left...

Ummm. My favorite time of year, the Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale release. My first love in commercial beer. I just picked up two 12 packs of this in WA today. They had it on sale as well to drum up interest. From what I have read it is out everywhere with people having picked it up in the...

I was out at Naked City Taphouse enjoying several of the fresh hop ales Don has on tap right now and one of the bartenders was talking up one of the beers they have in bottles at the moment. It was Port Brewing Hop-15 ale. As I listened to the bartender describe the process the So Cal brewery...

Just brewed my first beer with Pacman on Sunday. I did a fairly heavy heavily hopped IPA and decided to use Pacman as I heard it gives very good attenuation. I was planning on about a 1.075 OG, and had Pacman that was 2 months old so made a stepped up starter to end up with about 2.5 liters...

I'm getting close to building the 3 draft tower for my kegerator. I will be buildling it from scratch and was wanting to get some opinions on how high above the drip tray is the ideal height for the faucet. Obviously you want good clearance above a standard pint glass, but how much higher? I'd...

Short notice here but I found a local WA brew club that has a charterred bus to go over to Leavenworth Oktoberfest on Sat Oct 3. $ 35 !! It is a 1 day trip over in the morning and back at night. The bus will also be full of tasty home brew for the trip. Anyway they have about 1/2 dozen...