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I did stencil the letters...well...my wife did.

Thank you much peoples.

I've been home brewing for about 3+ years and Kegging for 2+, but my kegerator has always a bit of an eyesore. I just recently upgraded to a newer, better fridge, and being the LSU fan I am I made an LSU kegerator with purple chalk board paint. Let me know what you think. (There's really not...

And then my test run: And the final touches:

With two babies to take care of, SWMBO has established a rule, that I'm not allowed to brew beer until everyone is in bed. In my house everyone is generally in bed by 8:00, so that's generally my starting point. I only extract brew (because of said time restraints) and I've been slowly...

LSU Kegerator. Still a little work to do, but pretty much complete. First brew equipment of mine worth showing off.

+5 "stepchild ale" +10 moose drool +5 west Ale +5 double choc coffee stout +5 imperial amber +5 octoberfest +5 bottle o brown lager 43,568.5

Touche This was a 5 gallon extract brew. I had three hop additions. Totaling 2 oz of hops. I put the hops in mesh bags so very hop crap was sitting on the bottom of the brew pot. I put in 5 oz of cocoa powder with 5 min left in the boil. I stirred it up until i saw no more chunks or clumps of...

I've read several threads about adding chocolate and as a result, I put 5 oz of cocoa powder in the boil with five minutes left. When I transferred to fermenter I noticed a thick chocolaty sludge at the bottom of my brewpot. I assume this was the cocoa. I also assume that, since it was there...

I'm doing some beer for my brothers wedding at the end of this month. Our big decision was whether I was going to brew all the beer for the reception, or whether my beer would just be an option. I live in Louisiana so we decided my beer would be only an option. If that's the case for you, then...

Thank you TomOliver.

5 gal IPA 5 gal oaked porter 10 gal white house honey porter 10 gal American amber 20 gal coffee red ale Damn that's more than I thought.

You are right on the money. Except that I believe the type of oak tree makes a difference. Ive never tried though.

Thats the idea behind waiting to dry hop. Ill be aging the beer, then I dry hop so that Im not aging the hop aroma.

I brewed an IPA a few days ago and it came out a bit bigger than I was expecting (1.075). I have read about how the beer will lose its hop aroma about two weeks after kegging, so my question is this: If I want to age my IPA for a few months so it will be smoother, can I just leave it in the...