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• Posted in thread: Public service announcement on 09-12-2012 at 02:52 AM
  And...the reason I was cleaning was to solve the infection problems I had in two recent
  batches...to top it off, SWMBO says innocently enough.."you've been having some problems with
  your beer lately, ...

• Posted in thread: Public service announcement on 09-12-2012 at 01:06 AM
  When you unplug your lagering freezer from the temp controller and take the probe out of the
  freezer to clean everything, I you forget to put the probe back in when you start everything
  back in, you w...

• Posted in thread: I need help finding the perfect recipe on 08-25-2012 at 01:54 AM
  I suggest you check out kingbrianI's caramel amber ale or one of the many good brown ale
  recipes in here....

• Posted in thread: A fresh start in life on 08-18-2012 at 02:13 AM
  +1 to passedpawn...there are times in your life when you feel like you have the option to do
  this. In my mind, that means DO IT...because while it syour life and you do alwasy have the
  option of self ...

• Posted in thread: Help for a new guy!! on 08-18-2012 at 02:04 AM
  Could be yeast, protein, etc. Sometimes, they all just look wierd at different phases. My
  reccomendation? Leave it the hell alone. Don't go smelling it every day (I know it's hard not
  to), etc. There'...

• Posted in thread: Ranger IPA Extract Clone on 08-18-2012 at 02:00 AM
  Plus, I thought Simcoe was a much bigger part of Ranger than this recipe shows...am I wrong?
  Hope not. I just brewed what I hoped would be a maltier version, but with the Ranger hop
  profile and I used...

• Posted in thread: Restarting a lager as an ale on 08-18-2012 at 01:48 AM
  david 42 is right. With lagers, what you are doing at 50ish degrees is fermenting and what you
  are doing at 34ish (32 is too cold in my opinion - 1 degree of poor calibration in equipment
  and you star...

• Posted in thread: Caramel Amber Ale on 08-18-2012 at 01:10 AM
  BTW - By using the darker syrup in mine, the color shifts more towards the brown ale side, but
  damn if it doesn't taste like everything an Amber Ale should be...

• Posted in thread: I did it!!! on 08-18-2012 at 12:48 AM
  :mug:Nice work!

• Posted in thread: Caramel Amber Ale on 08-18-2012 at 12:46 AM
  I'd hold off until you can order the syrup or ingreedients for the syrup. Brown sugar, in my
  opinion, will change the beer and this beer is good and does not need to be changed...I have
  always liked a...