Lawrence Brewers Guild

This is indeed a good idea! It might take a while. Fortunately, in the meantime the "Search" function works pretty well. For example "mcmaster carr keg rings" will return a few useful hits. Similarly, "carbonation" will return hits that cover force-carbing, CO2 volume c...

LBG Minutes – October 2011 Tasting This month’s tasting featured Amber beers, category 10b in the BJCP. Tasted were: Bell’s Amber Ale, “The Chronic” – Lagunita’s Censored Ale, and Flying Monkey Amber Ale. Business Meeting Clean-up was by Rich, Crane, Steve, and others. Thanks! New people: There were...

I'll get them up tomorrow/Monday sometime. Nothing too time-critical, except for the Manhattan Octoberfest - *today* if you want to go. Info online. Meantime, I can strongly recommend the **outstanding** Belgian Meuse Dark Barrel-Aged beer at 23rd Street. Good enough for this hophead! (And it's not ...

I'm kegging this evening so will have a cake of 1056 available. It will need washed of breaks and pellet particles. Please let me know and I can bring a half-gallon to the meeting tomorrow.

http://247wallst.com/2011/09/09/the-eight-beers-americans-no-longer-drink/ "The Eight Beers Americans No Longer Drink" Basically, they're all form the big two. The article says that it's because Americans are turning away from "full-calorie" beers (145/12-oz) toward light and ult...

Praxair in Lawrence, update for yesterday, 9/20/2011: 5/19.0 CO2: $11.98 HazMat: $3.95 Tax: $1.41 Total: $17.34 Showed the card, receipt says "Lawrence Brewers Guild" for name. Gas was cheaper than last year; hazmat and taxes have gone up. Thanks to the people involved with arranging disco...

FDillon00 wrote:Sweet, I was a little bummed I didn't get one

Yeah, they went early, and fast. Next time you'll have to bring a hundred!

LBG Minutes – September 2011 Tasting This month’s tasting featured Oktoberfest beers. They were tasty, with grainy fruitiness. Business Meeting Clean-up was by Kyle, Carter, Steve, Russell, and others. Thanks! New people: One new person; sorry I missed the name. Please PM me and I’ll amend this. Mem...

All handled; thanks much!

Anyone have a spare smackpack or a pitch to sell? Please PM me.

Thanks,
--Steve

Yeah, I like the "Hop-O-Meter" (the bar graphs) on the individual hop pages, too.

Thanks, Andy. Monday evening I was wondering where they'd be with that construction by now.

How 'bout the "Blue-Beery pancakes" for brewfest Sunday! I see that the hop cookie recipe calls for 3 teaspoons of hops; could always be made 3 "Tablespoons"....

What affect would scorching have on the beer? Burnt taste? More caramelization? I actually have some brown sugar oatmeal stout that I scorched a couple of years ago. I was still bottling - I don't consider it worth the effort to open and empty the bottles. Maybe I'll give it to homeless people, alt...

I've mostly used Irish Moss. It's convenient, and easy to measure for small batches. I've used Super Moss; less convenient as it has to be dissolved in a little hot wort and added back to the boil, or it clumps. About a year and a half ago, some people chipped in on a bulk container; I got a pound, ...