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I found a pretty interesting article online. Thought I would share. http://www.inc.com/magazine/201304/liz-welch/the-way-i-work-ken-grossman-sierra-nevada.html

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Does anyone have a true extract recipe for a lemon shandy?

I didn't notice the BB caps that I put on the bottle rusting. I wonder why that is?

Ya the rust is in the same spot you mentioned, would be in the outside of the bottle. Mine were also BB caps, I wonder if they use a cheaper type.

I use a granite ware enamled stock pot that looks exactly like the one you described. Has worked great so far.

I used star San as well. I also have a question about this. I soaked the entire bag, about 60 caps, in the solution and only ended up using 49 of them. The others I just kind of dried off and put back in the bag. When I was going to bottle my next batch, I noticed that some had a small amount of...

Brewed a few brewers best and they were ok, just brewed a Midwest supplies kit and found it to be awesome.

5 gallons American light 5 gallons oatmeal stout 17,014+10=17,024

The day lasted a little longer than I wanted, just have to tweak my outdoor processes. I don't want to have to carry my wort inside, I need to get a way to cool it, a wort chiller is a little out of the budget and down on the wish list. I also need to get a smaller bucket to put all my things to...

Finished up a few hours ago. Everything went fairly well, no mistakes or problems. We will see in about 3 weeks or so how it is.

Ok I think I am going to chill indoors and pitch where I plan on fermenting.

Should I be worried about wild yeast finding its way in?

I am attempting my first outdoor brew today. I have cleaned everything, put everything in star San in my 5 gallon fermenter. Once the brew starts I will transfer some of the star San into some gallon jugs and dump the rest out since I have quite a bit already premade. A few questions I have, do...

Doing an oatmeal stout today and preparing a shandy and zombie dust clone for the next few weeks.