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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,725 Standard Supporter
    Cool to see this thread pop up as I've considered posting something along these lines and figured I'd be talking to myself.

    I might be the only person on the Kitsap Peninsula on this bored, but Olympic Brewing Supplies in Bremerton has better prices than most places I can find online (especially for hops and yeast) and the guys there are pretty cool. I used to shop at Micro Homebrew in Kenmore before moving out here and that place was 50% more expensive. All the stuff I make is all-grain.

    I've spent a lot of time trying to nail down my own hazy IPA recipe and found that it's just not worth the added expense of hops versus buying top shelf shit at the store. Now focusing back in on stouts and other winter warmers to prepare for fall weather. Great timing right now for brewing barleywine that will be ready in time for the Apple Cup.
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  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    In related haught talk, buddy of mine is an actual professional craft brewer(went to OSU's program) and is taking me to the California Craft Beer Summit in Sept. with him since he's got extra passes. It's kind of a big deal and it's awesome I get to attend the industry only days. I will be attempting to drink as many craft beers as possible while not embarrassing him professionally. Should be several days of good haught talk and pictures that I will poast whether you guys care or not. The wife already gave me a pass on being a poor husband and father figure for those days only asking that if I come home at 3am shitfaced that I sleep on the couch and not bother her. Good tims ahead.

    Awesome. On that note, I encourage all craft beer fans to attend GABF at least once as little compares to that first walk through the doors into a giant room with thousands of commercial beers to try.
    After the first tim or two though, I preferred the AHA conference. Just as alcohol-soaked, but with 3000 of your fellow homebrewers. This year's conf in RI was the first I've skipped in a decade. Already have couple seminars in work for Nashville '20. (And I'll never make the mistake of presenting without booze to serve.) It'll be Denver or West Coast in June '21.
    Cheers--
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  • Mad_Son
    Mad_Son Member Posts: 10,194
    NoWarningJustDawg said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    In related haught talk, buddy of mine is an actual professional craft brewer(went to OSU's program) and is taking me to the California Craft Beer Summit in Sept. with him since he's got extra passes. It's kind of a big deal and it's awesome I get to attend the industry only days. I will be attempting to drink as many craft beers as possible while not embarrassing him professionally. Should be several days of good haught talk and pictures that I will poast whether you guys care or not. The wife already gave me a pass on being a poor husband and father figure for those days only asking that if I come home at 3am shitfaced that I sleep on the couch and not bother her. Good tims ahead.

    Awesome. On that note, I encourage all craft beer fans to attend GABF at least once as little compares to that first walk through the doors into a giant room with thousands of commercial beers to try.
    After the first tim or two though, I preferred the AHA conference. Just as alcohol-soaked, but with 3000 of your fellow homebrewers. This year's conf in RI was the first I've skipped in a decade. Already have couple seminars in work for Nashville '20. (And I'll never make the mistake of presenting without booze to serve.) It'll be Denver or West Coast in June '21.
    Cheers--
    I've heard great things about gabf. Tomorrow is great taste of the midwest, which I love, but would be tough to travel if you're not in the midwest.

    Other than gabf I really want to get to is dark lord day.
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  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000
    Mad_Son said:

    NoWarningJustDawg said:

    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    In related haught talk, buddy of mine is an actual professional craft brewer(went to OSU's program) and is taking me to the California Craft Beer Summit in Sept. with him since he's got extra passes. It's kind of a big deal and it's awesome I get to attend the industry only days. I will be attempting to drink as many craft beers as possible while not embarrassing him professionally. Should be several days of good haught talk and pictures that I will poast whether you guys care or not. The wife already gave me a pass on being a poor husband and father figure for those days only asking that if I come home at 3am shitfaced that I sleep on the couch and not bother her. Good tims ahead.

    Awesome. On that note, I encourage all craft beer fans to attend GABF at least once as little compares to that first walk through the doors into a giant room with thousands of commercial beers to try.
    After the first tim or two though, I preferred the AHA conference. Just as alcohol-soaked, but with 3000 of your fellow homebrewers. This year's conf in RI was the first I've skipped in a decade. Already have couple seminars in work for Nashville '20. (And I'll never make the mistake of presenting without booze to serve.) It'll be Denver or West Coast in June '21.
    Cheers--
    I've heard great things about gabf. Tomorrow is great taste of the midwest, which I love, but would be tough to travel if you're not in the midwest.

    Other than gabf I really want to get to is dark lord day.
    Went to every DLD between '05 - '10. The big overly-sweet stout was pretty good, but the sharing of special stuff we had brought from across the country was always my favorite part. It's been amusing to see how every few years the 3Floyd's beer people are crazy over changes. First they needed Alpha King. Then that was boring and they needed Gumballhead. Then a long period where people went apeshit over Zombie Dust. Now of course people want whatever is "juicy".
    I still stop at 3F couple times a year. The food is great, the everpresent metal or classic hard rock is great, there's no fucking kids, and they actually make great lagers too.
    Cheers--
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    UW_Doog_Bot said:

    Chico gold in Tim for EW.

    I got this photo before all of you because we have sex sometimes.
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  • NoWarningJustDawg
    NoWarningJustDawg Member Posts: 1,000
    Anyone brew with chiles? One of those things I've never done, as like pumpkin beer the ones I've had usually seem to suck. But I'm currently cleaning and freezing a bushel of just-roasted Hatch Chiles, for chili verde this winter. They smell so great I'm tempted...

    There's a small fest locally tomorrow, 23 breweries serving their Hatch creations, so I may head down there to die of heatstroke/look for ideas. I've used a bit of chipotle in a raspberry chocolate dessert mead, but that was to add a hint of spice to what was basically a liquid chocolate truffle. Looking for more here I think.
    Probably a terrible idea, but EWIWBI. Cheers--
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