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ABOUT ME

City: 75081
About Me: I am a dork.
General Interests: *nix,reading,gps,brewing
Occupation: teacher (substitute, intern)
Real Name: frater mus
Favorite Music: ambient, industrial, spanish/classical guitar, baroque
Favorite Movies: Memento, Chicken Run, Dangerous Liasons
Favorite Television Shows: Wonderfalls, Arrested Development, MXC, Mythbusters (mmmmm,. Kari)

MythTV/TiVo rock.
Favorite Books: Confessions, (Rousseau)
Confessions, (Crowley)
Meditations (Aurelius)
Autobiography (Cellini)
Clubs and Associations: AHA, North Tx Homebrewers Assoc.
Home Brewing Biography: Started brewing in the US Army (former W. Germany) in the late 80s so I could have weizen back home. Worked at extract and AG brewing (heated mash on stovetop, then into insulated box, Zapap lauter tun).

Brewed for a few years then ran out of room. Hiatus.

Came back to the kettle in 2008 after we bought our first house. Brewing on the patio w/propane is an epiphany...
Future Brews: Go-to batches: mild ale and weizen.

Things to try: Koelsch, perhaps? Guinness clone?
Primary: AG Better Life Bitter[29],
AW "Perfect Pitch" on a reused 3068 cake + 1# sucrose
Secondary: I have largely given up on secondaries, except when required to add fruit or things like that.
Bottled: AG mild[13] (yucky, messed up the recipe),
EdWort's AW w/3068[7],
AG Farmhouse[18],
AG Blackberry Farmhouse[19],
AG Wall-e Weizen[20],
AG Trainwreck MMA mild[21],
Bitter Ike[22],
AG Blackberry Farmer's Daughter[24],
ApfelWein w/no added sugar and Danstar Munich[23],
AW Birthday Treat +3068+0# dextrose[25],
AG Hop And Change[26] Young's Double Chocolate clone (BYO),
cranberry apfelwein,
plain and blackberry mead,
AG Racing the Coldfront weizen[28]
Gender: Male
Status: Married

LATEST ACTIVITY

Posted in thread: Yay or Nay: Boil Water w/ Priming Sugar? on 06-25-2012 at 05:31 AM
Second, in what way would a short boiling of the sugar make it easier for the yeast to
metabolize it?I suppose one might make the admittedly-tangential argument that cracking the
sucrose to glucose+fr...
Posted in thread: I am currently fermenting Ovaltine. on 02-28-2012 at 04:28 PM
You're only listening to the left channel, I did the same thing, the voiceover is in the
right!The audio levels between the tracks are uneven. Voice is the top track in this Audacity
screenshot. Music...
Posted in thread: Franconia Brewery Accident on 02-19-2012 at 04:02 AM
So sorry to hear this. The owner is a good guy, very friendly and deserving of success. I bet
his insurance company will forbid any future tours... :-(
Posted in thread: I am currently fermenting Ovaltine. on 01-15-2012 at 10:48 AM
"More Ovaltine, please!"It comes full circle, since some of the brewers stayed afloat during
Prohibition by producing malt products like Ovaltine.
Posted in thread: Drinking my First!!! on 01-15-2012 at 10:46 AM
Good job.And the Irish Ale has become a favorite of mine. I'm partial to a Smitwick's clone I
drug up from somewhere. Jamil, maybe.
Posted in thread: Large Giveaway - Fermenter, Mash Paddles, Thermapen on 12-20-2010 at 06:33 PM
username: fratermusI subbed to the Dallas subforum to stay informed.
Posted in thread: How much idophor do you guys use? on 06-22-2010 at 01:01 PM
I thought after a certain period of time after being mixed it loses its effectiveness?Although
I generally use iodophor, I do keep starsan mixed in the spraybottle (distilled water) for that
reason.BT...
Posted in thread: Corona grain mill? on 02-04-2010 at 09:54 PM
How long does it take you guys to mill around 15lbs of grain with a corona mill and a power
drill?A few minutes. Most of that is stopping to fill my dinky hopper. If I made one of those
Ozarka hoppers...
Posted in thread: Cleaning Used Slants on 01-12-2010 at 11:59 AM
I use Hugh's method, though to get out remnants sometimes I boil a pot of water with the tubes
in it.
Posted in thread: What's the best way to purge oxygen from a keg? on 12-31-2009 at 02:24 PM
and some fill with sanitizer and push it out with CO2 (Method 3). No one seems to have any real
data or can offer a diffusion equation that can be used calculate/estimate the amount of O2
that ends up...