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And here's the moral of the story...

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SevenOaks - That's some good company to have while playing... To everyone else - Thanks for the compliments on the bar. It took about a year to complete. Got it done right before the 2014 superbowl (although I finally got around to making the table about a month ago. Just had a plastic...

Unfortunately my playing still isn't good enough to justify it but the other banjo was becoming my weak point. So I figured if I was going to upgrade, I might as well get something I can grow into. Plus, I don't ever plan on selling it but it should hold is value and good ones are only going to...

Who are you and when are we gonna hang out?! :) It is a Hatfield but it's a custom Celebrity. It's the only one like it. Certain parts are silver and others are gold. There's also one other big difference... Can you figure it out?

Main answer: to deter the kids from pulling on the strings. But it's decoration now (until the kids get older and they want to learn it). Also, the back of a banjo is usually the prettiest part but no one gets to see it. The last reason is that I've upgraded and got a better one that I play (or...

We never close. It's my basement. This is my center piece :)

Here's before and after pictures from about the same spots of the basement. One of the beams is behind the TV and the other is the corner that's protruding into the room by the door on the left.

We usually only use the refractometer when brewing. I've always taken a hydro sample when kegging. I was just wanting to take a quickly reading while home at lunch and figured I'd just put a couple drops on the refractometer to get a quick estimate. Never used it when kegging so I've never had...

Oh, and I guess no matter what happened, and the moral of the story: Every last drop still has alcohol in it and will be ready to drink in a few days!:mug: And it's Ronnie-approved!

So I don't know if I'm not the only one who has done this but I figured I'd share my most recent lesson in homebrewing. My life is pretty busy... I know everyone's is but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I beat the majority of the population in absolute productivity/efficiency of my time...

Actually yea, they were both done with a refractometer:drunk:. I was home over lunch and wanted to check them quickly. I figured it'd be close enough to tell me if I could keg them this weekend and take a hydrometer reading when I was kegging. Are you saying it could be off by that much?? I...

So I brewed two recipes up on July 3rd. One was a Steam beer: Style: California Common Beer TYPE: All Grain Taste: (30.0) Recipe Specifications -------------------------- Boil Size: 13.75 gal Post Boil Volume: 12.00 gal Batch Size (fermenter): 11.00 gal Bottling Volume: 10.25...

Talk about bringing my a thread back from the dead...:) Luckily for you, we take decent notes. Actually, even without the notes, I could tell you about this recipe because it has been - by far - our best stout recipe. The last batch of it, we added more oatmeal (about a half pound more)...

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