I believe not doing a full boil may be a contributing factor as well. I just tried dryhopping in a keg and that works great for aroma.

I have always had problems with loosing suction and airbubles when racking with a regular racking cane so i got an autosyphon i tried it yesterday and i love it. I would think that overtime you would just need to replace the o ring.

Hamilton Brian wrote:Wow; 11oz of hops...and at that AA. That's going to pucker some mouths. My brewing partner is loathe to brew those kinds of beers because he like "easy-to-please"beer, but I might sneak something like this in.

Just toss a handfull of hops into the boil when he isnt looking.

I wish it was a closer drive for me for convenience, but the $12 shipping is cheaper than gas though. I will have to stop by there sometime and get a #50 sack and stock up on some stuff to offset the gas cost

also was suprised that of all places, sunoco has 12 different craft brews on tap and does growler fills

Went to montreal for a little 3 day gettaway last week, and the number one spot i wanted to go to was deiu du ceil, it was worth it! They had 18 of their beers on tap we got there before they opend and had to go for a drive first, they oppend at 1 and we spent the whole afternoon there. I had the ra...

Iv really wanted to take this course since i heard about it last spring iv only been hombrewing and embracing craft beer since the biginning of the year. I i didnt have grade 10 or 11 science and did bad in math in high school so i was doing some upradeing at niagara college in may/june and was acei...

I just went over today, finally got to try some pumpkin ale. I picked up a 6 of smuttynose pumpkin and a 22oz of pumpking but there at least a half dozen different pumpkin beers over there right now. Also tons of octoberfest. I also grabbed a mixed 12 from Ithica brewery. As usual I paid no duty.

I'm in a small town in Quebec right now called port Alfred. I just got of a ship for the morning. No bar here serves anything but macro. Infact some fool just showed up at the bar I'm at in some type of ford decked out in molson export decals. Waltzing in with molson m flyers in hand and wearing a s...

for my birthday breakfast thismorning i had a pint of my attempt at a tankhouse clone folowed by another right now im having a homeade cider, both from my newly built kegerator im just breaking in as of sunday, i have a few mad toms in the fridge and gonna go out to merchant ale house soon for a pin...

Where are you guys picking up mixed packs? I often go to Niagara Falls NY for beer runs, but Consumers only has bombers and 6 packs. sometimes i go to Wegmans for the 'build your own 6 pack' but you really have to be careful as most of their stock has been on the shelves for months. I have a 'No IP...

im only 20 minintes from the border so the money i save on gas pays for the gas used that day and the money saved on groceries i buy there pays for the beer i buy

just got back from over there this afternoon, no tax paid although i only picked up a mixed 6 pack and 2 bombers we too had a baby. this is my 2nd trip in the last month. I will be going more often now that my wife got her passport. I plan on makeing trips out to southern teir and coles in the near ...

good find, i bookmarked the site for when the time comes to upgrade some equiptment

ya 3 pots and a stand is overpriced