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bio website user.dccnet.com/jroe
location Gibsons, Canada
age 47
visits member for 2 years, 7 months
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I enjoy making and drinking lots of different beer, but my favorites tend to be Belgian style ales. But then again, there's nothing like a nice fresh IPA.

I won a "best of show" for a Southern English Brown ale, which I then got to help brew at Howe Sound Brewing. London Town Brown: https://untappd.com/beer/320937


Mar
15
comment What is skunking?
I agree with all of the first comment, except for "NO beer is intended to have skunk flavors." I'm quite certain that the mild skunking of Sleemans (Canada) is deliberate. If I'm wrong about Sleemans, then there's my own beer which I sometimes skunk slightly on purpose.
Mar
4
comment Belgian/Canadian Tripel Recipe Question
At the bottom of the message he says he cultivated yeast from La Fin Du Monde (Unibroue).
Mar
4
comment Is there a limit to how many times you re-use bottles?
Wow... I would probably kill someone who didn't give my bottles back. Where do you get your bottles from? How can you have so many that you don't want empties back?
Mar
3
comment First Fermentation And Worried Something Is Wrong
Well, now that digital cameras have been invented, you need something to do, right? If you had started this hobby a couple of decades ago, you probably would have started with a book called, "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" by Charlie Papazian. One of the most important things you would have learned from that book is: "Don't worry. Relax. Have a homebrew."
Mar
3
answered First Fermentation And Worried Something Is Wrong
Mar
3
answered my airlock is not bubbling after 4 days on the secondary fermenter in a carboy.
Mar
1
comment Quantifying the level of hoppiness in a beer
Thanks, Brandon.
Mar
1
accepted Quantifying the level of hoppiness in a beer
Feb
28
comment Confused about using a carboy
No, normally if you're only going to use just one or the other, you'd just use the carboy. But I'd recommend starting in the bucket, and racking to the carboy after the foam has died down (probably 3-4 days after you started).
Feb
28
answered Confused about using a carboy
Feb
27
asked Quantifying the level of hoppiness in a beer
Feb
21
revised What are the easiest and hardest commercial beer bottles to re-use for homebrew?
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Feb
21
comment What are the easiest and hardest commercial beer bottles to re-use for homebrew?
I don't think "twist-off" should be a disqualification. There are some twist-offs which work really well.
Feb
21
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Feb
21
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Feb
1
comment Need help with my 1st IPA recipe
It's been a while...
Feb
1
comment Need help with my 1st IPA recipe
I've heard this "cat pee" thing before. How does one go about learning what cat pee smells like?
Jan
17
answered What is the basic reason for step mashing?
Jan
14
answered Carbonation Drops vs. Sugar?
Jan
14
comment How to treat Brettanomyces for secondary fermentation?
Yup. I consider myself to be pretty careful, and my sanitation procedures had always been adequate... until I introduced Brett into my homebrewery.