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http://www.mojave-red.com/imgs/lb.jpg I also picked up a 6-pack of Lobotomy Bock from Whole Foods. My wife and I stumbled across the Indian Wells Brewing Company a couple years ago on our way to Mammoth. It's a pretty cool little brewery smack dab in the middle of nowhere (North of the 395/14 junct...

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/oaked/images/OAKEDpic.jpg I bought a 6 pack of this at Whole Foods yesterday and tried it last night. It's aged on oak cubes, not barrel aged. The color was typical Arrogant Bastard, a deep rich copper color with an almost three-dimensional depth to it. It poured with...

I dunno. That doens't seem all that crazy. Hell, I've spent hundreds on single bottles of tequila. Steve bought a bottle of Utopias and not for the investment, we drank it... was it worth $120? Yes; not because it was so magical or anything but at the end of the bottle, no one felt ripped off. It wa...

Oskaar wrote:Why not go the New Belgium Brewery route?

Oskaar

What do you mean?

Start with the 2oz, 1/2 oz of each. You can always add more hops, but you can't take them away.

It's the pouring process that will subject your wort to airborne and other contaminants, as well as the recieving vessel unless it has been sterilized. I make the distinction here between sterilize and sanitize because in canning and long term storage, pressure cooking is a necessary process to ren...

Canning.... The answer is canning... I'll make a 4~5 gallon all-grain batch of wort and then can it. To make a starter, I just Star-San a flask, open a jar of starter, pour it in and shake it up, drop in the yeast and put it on a stire plate. Takes me about 3 minutes to make a starter. The canner wa...

What time do they close?

well. You don't look so good. i think you need a day off from work.

If you tried to brew now, as soon as you mashed in, your wife would go into labor. I'd take that chance. Get that 20 out of the fermenters and into cornies, then get those fermenters filled back up. Unless you've got a wife like Robert where you just pull her arm and she drops out another baby like...

I keep wanting to go too but haven't made it.

And now I'm even more upset. I got my score sheets back, and I thought the comments for the milk stout were all wrong. One judge thought it should be an English Brown, another described it as amber and bready. I read that and I knew they were off their rockers. Then I started reading the score shee...

That said I would recommend that you automation guys always leave your system in a configuration such that you could brew "the old fashioned way" in case of a pump failure, power outage, etc. That's great advice and why I don't recommend automation to the non-tinkerer. I had to do some re...

dhempy wrote:....Derrin ... I'm looking forward to watch each of you brew one of these days .. I'm sure I'll take something away form each of you. I already know that you both brew good beer.
Dan

Thanks Dan, you know you're welcome anytime.

Tustin Brewing Co. would be another option. Tyler's friend from BJ's, Andy, just took over there and should be stepping up the quality of the beer there. We wouldn't have a problem bringing in homebrew. Oh good! My wife and I used to go there 3 times a week before my first was born. That was 6 year...