Recent content by Cincy17

Speaking of zombies, a la world war z, zombies won't attack sick people. Maybe chronic alcoholism could save us from the zombie apocalypse?

I think I'm going to try this by rigging up some nylon mesh on the inside of the spigot. Thanks for all of the great advice, everyone. I may end up using several methods mentioned.

It was a major challenge. Without constant stirring at mashout, it would have taken days to lauter ended up unintentionally fly sparging just to keep it loose enough to flow. Still took about 3 hours to get 6.5 gallons into the kettle. I had seen recipes of other people using graham crackers so...

Pretty sure something from that show can apply to any situation in life.

I brewed a pumpkin ale last week with 90oz of canned pumpkin and 3 lbs of graham crackers in with the mash. I had 2 lbs of rice hulls in there too, but it didn't matter and I had a completely stuck sparge in my cooler mash tun. In the process of getting the sparge going, the braided line in the...

Finally boiling after the longest sparge ever. Just so everyone knows, graham crackers and canned pumpkin make for a terribly stuck sparge. Destroyed the steel braid in my cooler mash tun while getting it flowing. Maybe it's time to buy a real one. :) Edit: Even with 2.5lb of rice hulls.

Just mashed in my pumpkin ale. Finally got a chance to brew it this year. Trying out my new setup and made a few tweaks, so hopefully it comes out as good or better than last year's did.

Chocolate pudding out of a baby diaper, a-la Jackass

Added mango and papaya to half of my 9 month old lambic with wyeast lambic blend and various dregs.

Awesome, there are quite a few MD/PhD students in my program. I'm at University of Cincinnati

Sorry for the derailment again Haha, you got it. I'm a grad student working on a doctorate in dev bio

We use a very close chemical to PROP in the lab to prevent pigment formation in zebrafish embryos. It's called PTU and it can be used to used to identify supertasters as well. I'm crazy sensitive to it. If I get any on my fingers, no matter how often I wash my hands any food I touch for the next...

20lb CO2 tank and 6 cornies. Price: $0

Might get something interesting there. I think the only thing in Sofie is Brett C. So it may end up kinda pineapply.

Week old pellicle on my saison with Brett brux added to finish the slow DuPont yeast fermentation.