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• Posted in thread: Expecting low O.G. should i up all grains to compensate? on 05-23-2013 at 05:47 PM
  Ahhh. I didn't know you were talking BIAB. You can certainly increase the grain bill to make up
  for the low efficiency and the few extra bucks it'll cost are probably worth it versus coming
  up with a ...

• Posted in thread: Bottling Rant on 05-23-2013 at 05:38 PM
  Well, to answer your initial question, it definitely won't cost you 600 bucks to get into
  kegging. I started off with a 2 keg kit from Keg Connection for about $180 plus an old
  refrigerator that I alr...

• Posted in thread: Looking for Brew Jedi to help me with experiment on 05-23-2013 at 05:06 PM
  Is the goal for this to be 100% local? If so, it seems like a mead might be your best bet. I'm
  not familiar with amaranth, but from what I read, it seems like it could work as a base.
  However, you're ...

• Posted in thread: Expecting low O.G. should i up all grains to compensate? on 05-23-2013 at 04:32 PM
  I'm guessing your efficiency loss is from incomplete sparging due to the limited volume. It
  would take some interesting math to get it to work out, but what if you were to sparge as if
  you could do a ...

• Posted in thread: light struck wort on 05-21-2013 at 06:42 PM
  I stand corrected. There's probably way more than anyone really wants to know in this article,
  but it doesn't seem that ethanol is required: how is it that I can brew outside on a summer
  day and not ...

• Posted in thread: light struck wort on 05-21-2013 at 05:33 PM
  Wait a minute, you haven't pitched yet? If that's the case, light probably isn't your problem.
  From what I understand, the skunking reaction requires alcohol, so if there's none in there,
  it's not sku...

• Posted in thread: If you could start over and had $1000 what equipment would you get on 05-20-2013 at 07:08 PM
  Yeah, what beaks said. If you're worried about off flavors from aluminum, consider this;
  there's a 99% chance that if you go into the kitchen of your favorite restaurant you'll see
  plenty of aluminum ...

• Posted in thread: How and Why did my beer change styles? on 05-20-2013 at 05:10 AM
  What off flavors. The OP never said *anything* about off flavors. In fact he said the beer
  tasted great.He said his beer that was intended to be an IPA tastes like a Hefeweizen - a beer
  style known fo...

• Posted in thread: How and Why did my beer change styles? on 05-20-2013 at 04:00 AM
  The banana and clove that's so desirable in a Hefe is an off-flavor when fermenting other
  strains at too high a temperature. If the ambient temperature was 68, the internal temperature
  of the beer was...

• Posted in thread: 7 days past recommended bottle date on 05-19-2013 at 06:04 PM
  The instructions aren't exactly off, just incomplete. 14 days is plenty of time for an average
  gravity ale. However, they don't usually tell you that nothing bad will happen if you let it go
  longer.