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Congrats, the place looks great! I'll throw out my $.02 culled from a few years' experience as an assistant manager at Walgreens. The shelves you have should have the ability to be set at an angle, which gives you more options and merchandising flexibility. This popped in my head while...

Just moved and my advice is to move your brewing equipment separately if possible in your personal vehicle. Nesting carboys inside plastic buckets to restrict movement works well.

Looking for a new house right now and dreaming up my ultimate brewing space as well. Renting in the meantime, so I've had plenty of time to work on projects and think up different ways of doing things. If you do have a grain milling station in the space, I have an idea I think I'm going to...

Darkening color is one effect of oxidation. The 15 gallons of head space is your culprit, though the addition of juice adds another variable.

I'm in!

The Google Maps street view of your house shows you mid-brew session: :rockin:

No problem - glad to help a fellow Schlafly enthusiast! http://labelpeelers.com/hops-brewers-gold-hops-c-1_64_67.html Brewers Gold is said to be similar and sort of replaced Bullion for most commercial usage due to its superior storage ability. This vendor carries Bullion as well but only in...

I live in St Louis and have had this beer (and I agree it's a good one!) and also have attempted to clone a Schlafly beer before (their winter seasonal "Winter ESB"). I have a friend who works on the bottling line and a guy on his Schlafy employee softball team told me the dry hopping rate for...

OK, so best I can tell, the idea here is to compare a couple of beers (presumably by tasting them, which is of course, a completely subjective, impossible to quantify thing) to their respective "hype" in an attempt to determine if said beers live up to, surpass, or fail to live up to their...

I almost always design my own. Recent exception, I needed a 2nd beer (jockey box has two faucets) for my 1st child's 1st birthday party (also made 20 lbs pulled pork and about 40 burgers :rockin:) to match my continental style lagerish-ale. Ended up brewing BM's October Fast, which went over...

Back to the parameters, in our example above, we have selected style 10A. American Pale Ale. The sheet starts out with 10 pounds of US two row pale malt in the “grist” area of the sheet (directly to the right of the parameters area). We can see that the OG, FG, and ABV parameters...

A note on this recipe builder: As it is not a program, but rather a file, it must be manually updated for things like changes in the alpha acid content of the hops you purchase, adding new grains or hops you purchase that may not be on the list in the file, etc. These can be updated on their...

I decided that rather than spend money on canned brewing software (not that there’s anything wrong with that), it would be fun to develop a recipe builder on my own. I know my way around Excel, and all of the critical brewing formulas are readily available to anyone who has an internet...

I've tried the rehydrating thing a couple times on the recommendation of Jamil and others, but to me, the risk of contamination is just too high, and the steps too difficult for me to bother with anymore. In order to "properly" rehydrate the yeast, you must: 1) boil some water 2) cool it...

StL Wine & Beer is the place really. They specialize in homebrewing supplies and equipment, rather than Worm's Way, whose specialty is gardening supplies and equipment and trying to figure out if everyone interested in hydroponics is legit. WW is closer to my place, so I will run up there for...