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Ha! Now we know why it tastes like water. Canoe beer? Yes, canoe beer!! http://www.nbcnews.com/business/budweiser-waters-down-its-beer-lawsuit-alleges-1C8566405

Bought a brand new Kenmore 7.2 cu ft freezer on sale for a keezer project.

Fat Weasel, Trader Joe's - Sickly sweet and under attenuated Anything from Hoppy Brewing Company, Sacramento CA Anything from Feather Brewing Company, Magalia CA - Also way under attenuated :(

Ah yep, Gordon Biersch - that makes sense. I might grab a case next time I'm at Costco. I heard GB brews Trader Joe's beer too.

Hey what do y'all think of this? http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2013/02/01/16744067-taste-test-budget-beers-for-the-super-bowl?lite Costco beer? Anybody try it? I wonder who their contract brewer is?

I've been using an 8 gallon conical for the past 10 years. It's one of those plastic deals from Minibrew. I was kind of hesitant to go with plastic but compared to the price of stainless, I couldn't justify the price to my wife lol. Anyway, it's been great all these years - easy to clean...

Moved my fermentor of Altbier back out to the garage so it could take a nice cold nap.

Quick update (in case anyone cares) - brought the fermentor into the house yesterday. Wort temp gradually warmed up to 67° F over the last 24 hours. Gravity dropped 9 points!! Hydro sample tastes super clean - no fruity esters. I'll leave it where it is for a couple days, then lager near...

It's in a conical sitting in my garage where ambient has been fluctuating between 46° F & 55° F. I took another hydro reading this morning and saw that it it hasn't dropped since yesterday. Wort temp was 49° F. I'm going to bring it into the 70° F house to see if that will get it moving. I'd...

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Hi Folks, I just brewed up an Altbier using Wyeast 1007. Just wondering what's the lowest temp anyone has fermented with this yeast? Mine's sitting at 52° F which is 3 degrees lower than the recommended low. Anybody have experience going below 55° F? Just curious so I can have an idea what...

After brewing for 11 years, I decided it's finally time to make a pilsner. I'm pretty sure my water is good enough to make a decent pilsner, but the amount of HCO3 has me a wondering: At 33.4 ppm, will it significantly affect the mash ph? Anything else in my water profile I should be messing...

5 Gallons here. Thread Total= 121 Gallons :drunk:

Well, I've been keeping my eye on this thread and I finally made a cider on Friday using Tree Top from Costco and Red Star Primere Cuvee Yeast. My LHBS was out of Montrachet. Today, (Sunday), I got about three hours worth of nasty rotten egg smell but that was it. Cleared up super fast. Since...

Hello A, Welcome! This is a great forum to learn about homebrewing. I'm not too far from you in Chico, but my wife and I graduated from Humboldt State a while back-Go Lumberjacks! We loved Arcata, hated to leave, but too hard to make a living. Like Magno said, sanitize everything...

Ah-Sierra Nevada Brewery! They do indeed make delicious beers. I'm a bit biased though, as they are one of my local breweries (Butte Creek Brewery being the other). My homebrew club meets there every month and afterward we go down to the pub for a pint or two. Tonight, after the meeting...

Hey, thanks everybody. That was great info. Currently, I have the capacity to mash 16 lbs max, but have more room in my brew kettle and fermentor than that. So I think feel a project coming on..

I was checking out the latest issue of BYO Magazine and saw the article on building a mash tun out of an Igloo or Gott-style round cooler. Does anybody know how many pounds of grain a 10 gallon round cooler will hold?

Compost them-then feed compost to your hop plants.

I brewed a Dunkelweizen last summer that turned out pretty good. I used White Labs WLP300. The phenolics are strong at first, but do fade amazingly fast over several months-if you can wait it will be worth it. Here's White Labs' description: This famous German yeast is a strain used in...