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Nah I froze them, I meant I'll buy already frozen strawberries for the next batch.

I wasn't necessarily looking for more strawberry flavor, just wondering if I hit the mark. I tasked it before bottling and it had pretty strong aroma and strawberry after tasted. I'm guessing that was because the beer just came off the strawberries at that point. Maybe next time I will try...

Looking for some input here. Followed to recipe posted. I used 4 lbs of fresh strawberries, washed, halved, then frozen before adding them to fermentation. Sat for 3 weeks on the strawberries. Now it has been in bottles for 3 weeks. It carbed up very nicely, has a very very faint strawberry...

I oaked a porter with 2 oz of medium toast cubes. The cubes were soaked in 16oz of makers mark for about a week, then I added both the bourbon and oak to the beer. I let it sit in secondary for about 2 months and its now in bottles. When I sampled it during bottled, it has a pretty strong...

It depends on if you want to start doing all grain or not, or even doing full boil extract batches. It also depends on how much space/money/ambition you have. I immediately added 2 extra carboys to my initial 2. This will allow you to brew 1 batch every weekend if your fermentation times are...

I exclusively use better bottles for my fermentation. I own 6 of them. They are long lasting and have provided me with great fermentation's. They can scratch easily but, as long as you give it a good soak and don't have to scrub to hard the better bottles are easy to clean. Price Payed: $27.00...

I exclusively use better bottles for my fermentation. I own 6 of them. They are long lasting and have provided me with great fermentation's. They can scratch easily but, as long as you give it a good soak and don't have to scrub to hard the better bottles are easy to clean. Price Payed: $27.00...

Iron Maiden on tour in the US again. Think I am going to have to hit the two shows in Wisconsin....thats right TWO shows in Wisconsin! Time to up the Irons

I guess you popped your fermenting cherry

The question of whether or not laws/ordinances/regulations are constitutional always brings me back to this... edit: sorry for the crappy video, only one I could find.

Agreed, although the ending to the season finale cracked me up. Season 1-3 were gold though. Hard to top that. Haha that was what sealed that episode.

The prequel was eh, with a terrible finale....I haven't even started watching season 2, though I do plan to eventually. The first season was really damn good. I'll still go back and re-watch it from time to time. Another one was Entourage. I enjoyed the earlier seasons, and though I watched...

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Yea, putting alcohol up your butt can get you drunk...really really drunk. Its something like 1 shot in the rear is worth about 15 drinks. Its a good way to get alcohol poisoning though :)

Even so, I'd be super surprised if the wort in the sight glass was the same at the beginning of the boil as at the end of the boil. With the amount of motion that boiling liquid goes through I would think the wort cycles through the sight glass throughout the duration of the boil.