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• Posted in thread: Porters on 05-22-2013 at 05:18 PM
  Yes it is. When I was doing extract I wouldn't buy anything besides lite or extra lite extract
  as I wanted all my color to come from the specialty grains, and you don't know what else is in
  the dark e...

• Posted in thread: Do you have a beard? on 05-22-2013 at 05:12 PM
  My brother has that problem, so he shaves his down to a circle beard. Have you tried that or a
  Hollywoodian?

• Posted in thread: magnetized water? on 05-22-2013 at 01:08 PM
  Well I just read through Their claim is that the magnetic field makes a greater percentage of
  the bicarbonate ions form aragonite instead of calcite. Aragonite and calcite have the same
  chemical for...

• Posted in thread: magnetized water? on 05-22-2013 at 12:28 PM
  As a civil engineer, for the life of me, I can't imagine what these magnets do. Even if the
  magnetic field is strong enough to move ions in the water, as soon as the water gets past them,
  it goes back...

• Posted in thread: Your first time. (if you can remember.) on 05-22-2013 at 12:03 PM
  First batch: a Scottish Ale with extract kit with steeping grains.Brewing went fine but I had
  no way to cool the wort. So I pitched the yeast when it finally cooled off to 100F, about
  3am.It had no he...

• Posted in thread: You know you're a home brewer when? on 05-21-2013 at 11:48 PM
  You use your bike locker at work to store bottles your coworkers donate to you.

• Posted in thread: Mondays on 05-21-2013 at 12:51 AM
  I have a case of beer Mondays.Seriously though, some days work is my escape from home.

• Posted in thread: Blowoff tube for plastic bucket on 05-21-2013 at 12:49 AM
  My siphon tube fits inside the grommet.Takes a bit of forcing.

• Posted in thread: Using longer boil times to hav e flexibility on 05-21-2013 at 12:47 AM
  I think the two variables I'd focus on would be evaporation % per hour and dead space in your
  system that can't be drained.The variables I use are: evap = 16% per hour. Mash tun loss = 14
  ounces. Boil...

• Posted in thread: Using longer boil times to hav e flexibility on 05-20-2013 at 08:07 PM
  If you are measuring your water volumes off of a premarked bucket, you might have a badly
  marked bucket. You might want to get a sharpie and a gallon of bottled water and double
  check.Or conversely, y...