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| bio | website | santeadairius.com |
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| location | Santa Cruz, CA | |
| age | 40 | |
| visits | member for | 3 years, 4 months |
| seen | Dec 19 '11 at 3:55 | |
| stats | profile views | 46 |
18 years homebrewing, started in college when I was 20 because I was too young to buy beer but figured out that you could buy the ingredients...
Owner/winemaker for Sante Arcangeli Family Wines in Santa Cruz, CA. Sante is a "micro winery" producing 500 cases/year of carefully handcrafted Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from rare mountain vineyards in Bonny Doon and the Sonoma Coast.
Co-owner/Co-founder/Fermentation Facilitator of Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Santa Cruz California.
Day job: owner of iluminada design, a web development firm in Santa Cruz.
Currently totally infatuated with brewing barrel-aged IPAs.
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Jul 10 |
answered | Calculating sugar in fresh fruit |
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Jul 10 |
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Are beer kits any good? Kits are how pretty much everyone gets started and are a great way to do it. The only thing I recommend is that you get kits that will list all the ingredients so you can see what the different grains/hops contribute. Williams Brewing, for example, won't tell you what's in the kit = Sucks. Breworganic.com and many others will. So get a kit that list ingredients, brew it and then get it again and brew it again. Only the 2nd time swap out one of the grains in the grain bill. Or swap out one of the hops in the hop schedule and then note the difference. Keep a log. You'll learn a lot. |
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Jul 10 |
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How do you characterize “Breakfast Beer”? In this order: 1. It's cold. 2. It's got alcohol. 3. It's got enough sugar to go well with Wheaties or is neutral enough to work with Froot Loops. Basically, that means just about anything. 4. Lightly hopped. Hops are tough on morning mouth. But then again, the antibacterial properties in hops probably kill off all the funk in your mouth leftover from the stripper mammaries you were licking the night before... oh wait, I'm talking about me again... |
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Jul 10 |
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Does aging the beer make a huge difference? Forgot to vote this up and say that higher gravity beers tend to benefit from aging, in my experience. I made a 10.5% IIIPA last year that tasted like sugary @$$ when I bottled it but turned into a real treat after 6 months in the bottle. |
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Jul 10 |
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Cloning commercial beer Yeah. Google first for me, which usually turns up threads at HomebrewTalk. |
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Jul 10 |
asked | Fermenator Question(s) |
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Jul 10 |
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Does aging the beer make a huge difference? Wow, I'm jealous. I've never been able to wait that long. I'm basically shaking the bottles to see if there's bubbles in there after a week... and the rest is history. |
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Jul 10 |
answered | How do I print professional-looking labels? |
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Jul 10 |
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Conical fermenter: worth it? The off aromas are less this time and I think they'll blow off once I bottle. |
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Jul 4 |
answered | Conical fermenter: worth it? |
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May 2 |
answered | [Wiki] What extra equipment do I need to make wine? |
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Feb 22 |
answered | Should I & how do I use a mash tun brew kettle with a false bottom? |
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Feb 22 |
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Where can I find some Nelson Sauvin hops? The craftbrewer.com.au hops came in after approx 2 weeks in excellent condition/freshness. |
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Feb 22 |
asked | Open-Fermented or Native Yeast Beers |
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Feb 17 |
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Where can I find some Nelson Sauvin hops? I received the hops in great condition and quite fresh from Hop & Grape relatively quickly. I've not yet received my craftbrewer.com.au order though, despite their rapid delivery claims. |
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Feb 10 |
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Using Grolsch “Premium Lager” bottles for bottling Sorry maybe you'd prefer to have no content at all on your site. I did vote it up, but decided to +1 that too. |
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Feb 4 |
answered | Using Grolsch “Premium Lager” bottles for bottling |
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Feb 4 |
answered | Help With Hops… |
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Feb 4 |
answered | How do you get the bag of hops into the carboy and then remove it? |
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Feb 4 |
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Where can I find some Nelson Sauvin hops? I've also found the following site: www.craftbrewer.com.au that sells whole-hop Nelson as well as pellets. I've ordered from both and will followup with the results re: freshness, etc. |
