The Bar Towel

I'm glad I got a few people cooking with Trois Pistoles which can work better than the pricier Chimay beers. I had the flank steak with peppercorn sauce a la Trois Pistoles at Fourquet Fourchette in the Palais des Congres de Montreal last week. It is a worthy culinary ingredient to be certain, irre...

liamt07 wrote:

cannondale wrote:Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable (draught)
Struise Pannepot Wild (draught)
Unibroue Don de Dieu (bottle)
Unibroue Trois Pistoles (bottle)

Pannepot Wild on draught? Jesus Christ, where?

Le Saint-Bock

Dieu du Ciel Corne du Diable (draught)
Struise Pannepot Wild (draught)
Unibroue Don de Dieu (bottle)
Unibroue Trois Pistoles (bottle)

I try different guides, for example I used the Eyewitness for Hamburg Germany because nobody else makes one. Eyewitness weigh a TON. But they make nice coffee table books with the pictures and drawings. I usually rely on guides Rick Steves, or Cadogan from the UK if you can find them. No mainstream...

Now that I have a temp. controlled ferm. chamber, I'm going to take my first stab at a lager and brew an Oktoberfest/Marzen. I've put together a 10 gallon recipe that I plan to split and ferment with 2 different lager strains. Any feedback from the lager brewers out there would be appreciated.. Marz...

That looks like a fine recipe for a Galaxy DIPA, though I do think S-04 is disgusting, and would never ever think of using it in anything, but particularly not a DIPA. Just my opinion of course... Of course. And I used to feel the same way. However I've found that if you keep the fermentation tempe...

A great, compact day planner is the Knopf Map Guide, plus it's useful to google map / print off the pubs downtown, lower St Denis area and (IMO) the best ones around the Plateau. A walking 'beer route' is one of those great ways to explore the city, and the Knopf guide is a good primer for undiscov...

I'm putting together a recipe for a Galaxy single hop IPA that I will be brewing this weekend. Galaxy IPA (11 gallons): Fermentables (target OG 1.080): 85% Pale malt (2°L) 5% Munich malt (9°L) 5% Victory malt (25°L) 5% British Crystal malt (55°L) Hops (target IBU 80): 3 oz. Galaxy hops (13.0% AA) @...

Imperial porter (based on Flying Dog Gonzo). Just poured my first pint. Delicious. Roasty, malty balanced nicely with the bitterness, and a pile of Cascade on the nose. Dangerous stuff at a little over 9% ABV!

Very excited to know I have another 5 gallons of this on tap...

Both the Oxford Companion to Beer and the Stone Brewing book arrived today. My first impressions of both are good..piles of information here.

Just in time for the weekend..

Is the orange carboy cap too large for the better bottle? I used one on a 6 Gallon glass carboy that wasn't airtight and put one of those thick elastics you get around brocolli at the supermarket and it helped seal it up. I've read that it is a bit too large for the BB. I've also read of the rubber...

I'm starting to lean towards a smaller (appx. 9 cu. ft.) freezer for a fermentation chamber. I only brew ales, and I'm not concerned about controlling temperature during secondary (basement is pretty steady at 68-70F). A 9 cu. ft. looks that it will nicely accomodate two 6.5 or 6 gallon primary ferm...

I'd like to stopper 6 litre better bottles with 2 inlets, one for an airlock and the other for a thermowell. Options that I've seen so far are: Drilling a 2nd hole in a No. 10 drilled rubber stopper (problem: drilling hole through rubber is a pain in the ass) (Orange) Universal carboy cap (problem: ...

Next weekend will be an abbey single/petit saison 11 gallon split batch. Fermentables: Pils malt, Abbey malt & Cane sugar Hops: Hallertau (bittering) & Saaz (flavour & aroma) Yeast: Wyeast 1762 (1st half) & Wyeast 3711 (2nd half) I finally tapped this abbey single (brewed in January...

This has been a slow moving project... I have wired and mounted a Ranco 2-Stage ETC...I have a small ceramic heater...now I just need a freezer, for which I'm shopping around on Kijiji... Any recommendations for chest freezer size in cubic feet for a fermentation chamber? Surely it depends on the ex...