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• Posted in thread: Nottingham yeast - hydrate or not ? on 10-07-2012 at 03:04 AM
  I have a friend who has been brewing for, well, since before it was legal. The other day he was
  telling me the ingredients to the last beer he made, it was probably about 1.060. Anyway he
  direct pitch...

• Posted in thread: Ongoing clarity issue on 05-16-2012 at 03:14 AM
  Have you tried shortening your kegs diptube?

• Posted in thread: Ongoing clarity issue on 05-16-2012 at 02:37 AM
  Is it an infection? Just kidding... Yeah I do all grain, I vorlauf very poorly, let alot of my
  hop trub and cold break go into the fermenter, I either cold crash, or a few days before
  bottling I fine ...

• Posted in thread: Steam powered kettle from battleship (any experience?) on 05-08-2012 at 11:14 PM
  Ah thank you for the link!

• Posted in thread: Steam powered kettle from battleship (any experience?) on 05-08-2012 at 11:04 PM
  That I have not. We are trying to do as much with what we have as we can to keep start up
  prices low. I was hashing out ideas for using it as bot a mash tun and a boil kettle you might
  be right about ...

• Posted in thread: Steam powered kettle from battleship (any experience?) on 05-08-2012 at 08:02 PM
  Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, I hops it is. Me and a friend of mine
  are toying with the Idea of starting a nanobrewery, and we are looking into all the equipment
  that we wou...

• Posted in thread: Clarifying Question on 05-03-2012 at 11:21 PM
  The clearest beers I've ever brewer were fined with gelatin. A few days before bottling I put
  half a pack of knox unflavored gelatin into 2 cups of cold water in a small pan, let it "bloom"
  for about ...

• Posted in thread: First AG - Newly Built Cooler Mash Tun (Wheat Efficiency?) on 04-28-2012 at 02:43 AM
  Another idea would be to mash with, say, 12 quarts of water, and use the another 12 (or so to
  account for grain absorption) to sparge.

• Posted in thread: Cream Recipe Critique on 04-28-2012 at 01:51 AM
  I used 6-row in a pre-prohibition lager, which also used 2lbs of corn. My impression of 6-row
  is a far more grain flavored malt, I really liked it, but can see how the flavor doesnt work
  with every st...

• Posted in thread: Imperial Stout Recipe on 04-18-2012 at 01:10 AM
  Well I brewed it this Saturday with some adjustments. I decided I need 5 gallons, not 3, so I
  did a double mash. The revised grain bill...20lbs Pale 2 row1lbs caramel 80.8lbs chocolate
  malt.5lbs black...