Lawrence Brewers Guild

My first attempt at kvass: Kvass Overnight mash: 5 lbs Belgian pils malt 2 lbs flaked barley Bread: 2 med size loaves dark rye bread, homemade Sliced and mashed overnight with a handful of malt Sunday, 6/26/11 Mashed grains in a bag in a cooler the night before. Rinsed with 170 deg sparge water. Col...

This pump has performed flawlessly for 10 years. Until today in the middle of wort chilling. Anyone know where I might find a replacement impeller? I looked around online and the pump is not made anymore and couldn't find parts. I'd hate to throw away a perfectly good pump for want of a replaceable ...

Lee, i'm brewing your recipe this weekend. got the rye bread in the oven now. How did yours turn out?
How long for fermentation?
Final gravity?
Did you secondary, or go straight to keg/bottle?
What is the shelf life? I've read that it is likely to get incredibly sour in a hurry.
Anyone else try this?

I brewed 10 gal of wit out at mayfest (1052 OG) and pitched a stepped up slurry of 3944. It was working hard by Sunday morning, blowing like crazy in my warm garage. So I thought, “hummm, maybe this yeast will hammer through and I could keg a really fresh beer in time for Pints this Saturday.” Nope....

Hmmm. Looks like I'll have to test this again (and again and again and....)
Interesting. We thought the choc flavor was just about perfect. I'll make it to bring to the Christmas party.

Yeah, i just starting browsing through the site this morning, and i've got about 10 new things to try. Very nicely done site, fun to read.

Incredibly delicious and pretty easy to make. Plus great website name.
http://smittenkitchen.com/2006/11/ganac ... -goodness/

Just returned from weekend in Columbia. Flatbranch was very good. Of special note, Lisa had a Cherry Brown. Would not have been anywhere near my first choice, but it was outstanding. Perfect balance of malt and biscuit with tart cherry. somewhat similar to the cherry profile in the New Glarus beer b...

Is the Flat Branch still good? Planning to sample there this weekend. Any other noteable Columbia MO brews/dining?

I'll do it Lee. I'll PM you with a couple questions.

Anybody notice this affect on your brewing?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100924/od_ ... m_beer_odd

Fun article on NPR on a Dogfish Head Bitches Brew tasting:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2 ... =fb&cc=fmp

making some tomorrow and don't want to run to KC to get yeast. Does anyone have anything that will do the trick, preferably dry yeast or existing slury? Can pick up and pay for today.

Free side x side refrigerator/freezer. It works and has been used in the past for home brewing. No shelves in the fridge side. You will need to move it out of a basement yourself.
PM me if interested, and I'll give you the contact info.

Thanks Bill. I downloaded that guy's updates just now and it looks like a few more items are included. Bad news is I lost the previous updates that I manually entered.