Recent content by hbomb

Me too. Minus the going bankrupt every time I shop there.

Thrown out by a local restaurant. Imagine taps across the top.

The yeast fridge.

Way more fun than elementary school math.

A room of her own!

A room of her own!

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Only if we can measure it in swimming pools. I think 1-2...

One of my favorite coffee drinks has both chocolate and cayenne and it's delicious...maybe the chocolate-habanero or mole stout, but add a little coffee?

The way I would convert it (and this might be less than precise because of other factors) would be to do a simple ratio equation with each ingredient: amt of ingredient called for in original recipe/7 gallons= actual amount needed (x)/5 gallons cross multiply to get (amt called...

I think it's pretty unlikely that the hops themselves are introducing the infection. Besides their natural antiseptic properties, like you said you're boiling the snot out of then. Maybe try making a hop tea with some of the Target to see if you can isolate the off flavor to them? If it's...

Pac Man, 001, s-05...basically anything clean and boring (read:versatile) if I'm going to have to use it for EVERYTHING. As someone else pointed out, there's always difference in temp to give it some variation.

In addition to buying base grains through a group bulk buy, sometimes I go to the LHBS and just buy 10 or 20 pound of different specialty malt uncrushed and store it in 2.5 or 5 gal buckets. No price break, but the convenience of having a variety of ingredients on hand so I can brew whenever I...

That's fantastic, I'm totally going to steal it for my computer wallpaper. Is there a "women brewers" group on the brewspace side of this forum? If not, we should start one!

Both National Homebrew Day and International Workers' Day?! I wonder what it would take to get my birthday changed to May 1st?