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• Posted in thread: City/Apartment dwellers...where do you brew? on 02-04-2013 at 06:08 AM
  I use my Countertop Brutus 20 in the bathroom for the mash and boil, and my recently motorized
  mill in the shower cubicle. ... and no, I don't have a fermenting fridge in the bathroom. :D

• Posted in thread: Motorized Grain Mills: Time to show them off! on 02-04-2013 at 05:50 AM
  Wow! There are some amazing mill motorizations here.Here's my little outboard motorboat - at
  least that's what it reminds me of :) details in my BrewAdelaide forum post - one of the other
  forum membe...

• Posted in thread: I just made label peeling EASY!! on 12-21-2012 at 02:00 AM
  Correct, albeit very little from just residue. You would have to add 1 cup of 6% NaOCl bleach
  to properly mixed 5 gallons of Star-San to keep it safe. Any less than this cup (~235 ml), and
  the pH is s...

• Posted in thread: Sufficient mixing of sugar? on 12-11-2012 at 03:16 AM
  As an extra measure, I make an estimate of how many bottles I'm going to fill, half fill most
  of the bottles in a first run and then go back and top up the bottles in a second run in the
  same order. I...

• Posted in thread: The reality of the bottle bomb. on 12-07-2012 at 07:54 AM
  That Montrachet yeast might be causing some over attenuation in the bottles. ...So would a good
  option be to add the Montrachet at fermentation end and wait a few weeks to see how much lower
  the Montr...

• Posted in thread: False bottom and recirculation = efficiency problems? on 12-07-2012 at 07:27 AM
  I do have a diptube under the false bottom. If I lowered the FB, I would have to rig it so the
  diptube could run through through the FB.Thanks for the helpWhat about using something to fill
  up the dea...

• Posted in thread: Photos of crushed grain? on 12-05-2012 at 11:21 AM
  My post about: Malt conditioning (nb. 0.9mm = 0.035 inch)and the result (follow link to see
  large pix):

• Posted in thread: Safe to Bottle? on 11-24-2012 at 12:09 AM
  If the gravity is stable over a 2-3 period, it is safe to bottle. ...I think this rule of thumb
  is ok as long as you're within ballpark of where the FG ought to be based on what the expected
  attenuati...

• Posted in thread: Hofbrauhaus Beer on 07-20-2012 at 11:34 AM
  "crickets"rib-bit ........ oh, wait - that's frog.Not sure it's what you were after but I'm
  looking at tryingto brew something like the Hofbrau Dunkel soon and havefound the following
  recipes may be a...

• Posted in thread: Countertop Brutus 20 on 06-17-2012 at 02:42 AM
  I think if you use an immersion chiller as per Jeff's originaldesign then you probably wont
  have problems with hopsclogging - maybe unles you're using whole hop flowers, inwhich case you
  could attach ...