JoeSchmoe

With Canadian beer prices, a batch that costs $40 all-in would easily be $120 at the LCBO. With my time, obviously the per hour savings aren't great unless I'm also having fun making it... which for now I am. The biggest benefit is the ability to customize the beer. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a cherry wheat on this side of the border. Now that I can make my own, I can make as much as I want if I like it. To your point about washing bottles I hear you! A keg would be really nice! 🫣

I'd do it, even though there's no way Oloffson does. He had a really good season last year offensively and was one of the best ExG% on Vegas. No way he pulls those numbers unless he seriously fixed his defensive game. He may be a better PP player than JJP and would do well on our 3rd line or as a 2nd line fill-in.

Here's the last batch I bottled on Tuesday. My daughter made me the labels for our trip to the Adirondacks (we leave tomorrow). TBH they could use a bit more bottle time, but I'll be damned if I don't drink an "Adirondack Pale Ale" in the Adirondacks. By the last day or two of the trip, I'm sure they'll be fine.

I love German wheat beers. Good on your neighbour for brewing something other than the ubiquitous hazy IPAs that plague the whole craft beer scene.

I definitely don't want a fruit bomb. I'm hoping for a Blue Moon level of fruit flavour, only with cherry instead of orange.

So the cherry wheat is in the fermenter. I bought a 750ml bottle for cherry concentrate and used about a 1/3 of it to somewhat match the 236ml shown on your bottle. I was kinda hoping the colour would be a bit more subtle.... There's no mistaking this is a cherry beer. I actually didn't realize how much impact the cherry would have on the colour so I had added a 1/4lb of Crystal 120L to the 10lb grain bill to redden it. Looks like it didn't need it, but it does provide a bit of a fruity flavour anyhow. Hopefully the taste will be subtle as you said. In reading recipes online, that seems to be the consensus. Edit: Here it is brewing up in my old dungeon of a basement. Everything is pretty stirred up by the active yeast... the cherry hues are somewhat muted by yeast and hops colouring.

Here in Ontario a pint of IPA is running about $4CAD. Some a bit less some a bit more. I learned this from my cider making days. I was meticulous, while my friends that also made it (as a group) were c'est la vie. I can still remember two of their batches... One was drinkable but it had a BBQ sauce aftertaste. Another was so bad that no one would even touch the stuff unless they were way beyond the point of caring, but there was nothing else to drink. On the other hand, people would tell me they liked my cider better than the stuff you can buy. I would make mine hard and dry, sometimes adding a few cans of frozen raspberry or cranberry juice concentrate.

You couldn't have said that better. Hazy IPAs are so overrated. I don't mind the odd one but its gotten out of hand.

Great idea! Thanks! There's a place near here that sells cherry concentrate. It's not cheap, but a cherry wheat sounds delicious.

I'm not sure what size that fermentation vessel is, but it looks like that mead kit has everything you need to make beer except a pot, a mesh bag, and a thermometer. If you've already got a large pot and a decent digital thermometer, the bag is less than $10 on Amazon. As an aside, I've never tried mead. Is there something to compare it to flavour wise?

For me, the draw is the suspense of not knowing what the beer is going to taste like until close to a month after you put the work in. It's like a kid waiting for Christmas. I don't think I'll ever graduate away from BIAB and get into what you guys have done, nor would my wife sign off on it. It'd be nice to have a tap, but I seriously fear Weave's story, and my willpower not to grab a pint or two with dinner is not very good. If I did, at most I could see myself getting something like this as it would easily fit in the spare fridge. https://www.vevor.ca/beer-mini-keg-c_10709/vevor-beer-growler-tap-system-170oz-5l-mini-keg-304-stainless-steel-pressurized-beer-growler-keg-growler-with-pressure-display-co2-regulator-faucet-leak-proof-ring-for-draft-homebrew-craft-beer-p_010690630801

15gal! Wow... no way I could drink that much beer, but it would be fun to make. I could see how having convenient beer on tap all the time would cause a weight gain though. I have a 5 gallon pot I bought for boiling corn, so my batch size will be limited by that. My first batch was 2 gallons, this next batch is 3. The American Wheat will be up closer to 5 as I'll mash it out stronger, then water it down during cooling to get more volume. The hard part will be bottling as I've only got 3gal worth of bottles now. I was considering buying some cheap used growlers. Would I have to buy new caps for them or are the caps reusable?

I used to make hard cider for many years. I stopped around the same time I had kids, but kept my stuff. Back then I always thought beer was too much work. Then a couple months back I saw a YouTube clip on the Brew in a Bag method. I ordered a mesh bag off Amazon, got some ingredients from a homebrew store, and pulled out my old stuff. Some of my BBQ thermometers and outdoor frying equipment came in handy too. For my first batch I went with an Amber Ale. I thought it was okay, but everyone else really liked it. My second batch I've got fermenting is an IPA. I'm hoping it doesn't turn out too hoppy as I went for flavour over bitterness. My next batch will be a lighter American Wheat Beer like Blue Moon, but I think I'd like to try to sub out another flavour for the orange. Maybe lemon or lime? Any ideas? I'm thinking I'll shoot for maybe 4% over 5% as I want this to be a drink by the pool beer. Anyone else into the hobby? Any recipes or stories to share?

I've been snowboarding in Salt Lake many times, though I haven't been since COVID. Strictly from a snowboarding perspective, it's the best spot I've ever been to as the snow and terrain might be the best in the world. Apparently crowds have since gotten bad as the Utah puritan reputation has somewhat worn off. Snowboarding won't matter to JJ though since it would void his contract. I know a guy who played a season there for the Grizzlies 25 years ago. His attitude towards the off the ice stuff was much like JJ (he said he liked to play "guilty"). Said the clubs weren't very good, and many of the local girls were off limits. He also said alcohol was more taboo than other harder substances which made interacting even weirder. He did really like training in the mountains though and liked the restaurant scene. Obviously, things have become much more liberal and the Mormon % has dropped in the last 25 years. I can personally say I've been very much over served in the beehive state (very, very much)... much to the regret of my next day on the mountain. Still, I'd far take Buffalo nightlife over SLC. Maybe JJ will get in with some $$$ crowd over in Park City, but I'm thinking he'd be far younger than the clientele there.

Given Byram's perceived upside, $6.25M is a big win if the plan is to trade him. Strap him to Dahlin's side to start the season and wait for the offers to come in!

Buffalo has the most hockey viewers per capita and best TV ratings out of any US market. Even factoring in population size (viewers * ratings), they're still pretty high (though I don't have recent numbers on this). Growing the TV contract is Bettman's job #1. The league needs Buffalo and it's viewers, along with all the Buffalo ex-pats across the US.

I worry Thompson might lose a few goals without a Peterka level player in the lineup. I also fear a regression from Zucker. Hopefully Quinn can be what we thought he was, and hopefully Norris, Kulich, and Benson all chip in. I've been burnt far too many times to get my hopes up on any of this though. And we still need at least one of Levi, Lyon, or UPL to be a real NHL starting goalie. Unfortunately, I'm especially jaded this isn't going to happen. It'll be exciting however if it does.

Despite the bluster I find deep down, Rivet is actually sincere, humble guy and I like listening to him. Peters on the other hand thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, which (as per your post) is very far from the truth. I'm still a regular listener, but if Rivet left, there's no chance I'm listening to Peters.

8 in a row now!

With larger sample sizes, I feel like actual GF% is a better metric to measure a player's skill as some of the randomness of shooting (and other intangibles not accurately factored into the model) usually work themselves out over time.

Maybe JBD didn't wanna be here.

810pm on a Saturday night and I just logged in to see if there's been a Byram trade.

If Byram really, really wants out, he's going to sign a cap friendly short-term deal which will make him as tradeable as possible. Even if he doesn't get traded right away, he's going to be locked at the hip to Dahlin, who actually makes him look like a viable 1st pairing D (thereby increasing his marketability and future contract value). He definitely doesn't want to sign a lowball offer sheet as Sabres would be likely to match, and they're not allowed to trade him for a full year afterwards.

I'm going to put this here and hide. What if a $9mill Byram offer sheet comes and we let him go for the picks. Then we use a small part of the money saved to sign a UFA who was one of Vegas' top offensive players from last year.

I think I've checked at least 5 times today. Seeing all the Byram rumours on Twitter isn't helping.