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+5.5 Gal English Pub Ale =10,972.5

10,680 +5.5 Red IPA +5.5 SMaSH +5.5 Belgian Pale = 10,696.5 gal

8338 +5.5 Big Brown = 8343.5

8098 +5.5 Belgian Pale +5.5 Barley Wine +5.5 Trappist Style +5.5 Centennial IPA (my 100th brew...booyaa!!!) +5.5 ESB +5.5 Cream Ale +5.5 Irish Red +5.5 Scottish Ale +5.5 Hoppy Wheat +5.5 Pale Ale +5.5 Hefeweizen +5.5 Black IPA +5.5 Belgian Strong +5.5 Imperial Stout +5.5 English Rye 8098+82.5 =...

I'm just now getting into winemaking. Have first batch closing in on bottling date with a few to follow. Acquiring all needed supplies...floor corker, bottles, corks, wine rack...and...caps? All commercial wines have these seemingly pointless caps made of PVC, aluminum or whatever...

First kegging set up is on its way :rockin: It is a triple tap kegerator. The set up locks the co2 tank behind the keg's. My question is this; Is it wise to get a second co2 tank, so I can easily gas new keg's before they make it to the cooler? Or just to have when the first blows out?

I have some Edinburg yeast left from an awesome Scotch Strong Ale. Problem is...I harvested this yeast in October of 2014. It was properly washed and I got 4 solid pint jars from it. It has sat at 34-38 degrees since. This past Sunday, I finally decided to make starters. I made two...

Thx for response. I plan to use 4oz corn sugar tmaro. Looking forward to see what the FG is. Have a feeling it could be as low as 14ish. Hope I didn't pick up too much in "off" flavors while sitting on yeast cake for so long. When referring to priming pitch rate I was looking at the amount...

Brewed a stout on 7/7/13. OG = 84. Left in primary, on yeast cake, since then. Used 2 dry packs of Notty. My plans were to buy kegging equipment but that never happened. Haven't taken a SG/FG reading yet (had a vigorous fermentation. Blew over big time) but want to bottle in the morning...

Brewed very first beer tonight. Imperial Russian Stout. It finished with a bit less OG than anticipated...70, but tasted great. Booyaa! Visited Minn this year to play Blue Ribbon Pines. Also played Bryant, Elm, Koposia and The Valley. Great trip. Minn is ridiculously loaded with solid DG...