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• Posted in thread: Cool the wort! on 12-19-2012 at 12:12 AM
  You have to top it off with water so why not do what I do,I boil some water a couple days
  before brew day then put in 2 litre drink bottles and freeze them,take a knife and split the
  bottles and put t...

• Posted in thread: 10% off and free shipping at Midwest today! on 12-17-2012 at 01:30 PM
  I live 2 minutes from Midwest, and I'm glad to hear they have more deals!Lucky guy,my nearest
  hb shop is 90 miles away

• Posted in thread: Vintage Kegerator build on 12-17-2012 at 01:01 PM
  Great job! I just added something new to my wish list.

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 12:43 PM
  Ok,my friends thought I would do an update.Though its only been in primary for 40 hours,after
  seeing very aggresive activity after only 3 hours I decided to check the gravity this
  morning,the og was 1...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 11:22 AM
  For that reason, I am now building my pipeline to allow me to age beers 2-3 months before
  drinking them, as opposed to 3-4 weeks. Allows the beer to age, get softer/more blended, lose
  any greenness, a...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 01:37 AM
  I don't like the hop bite ether in most recipes, I have cut the 60 min hop (bittering addition)
  amount in half on quite a few recipes that I brew and even up to 2/3, and cut all hop additions
  in half ...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 01:10 AM
  the ambient temps are right at 70 and stay near that year round.With the freezer idea Im sure I
  can get setup for around 70 bucks,but finding a freezer has been the problem.Sooner or later I
  would lik...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 12:34 AM
  I just picked up a $5 water basin at Walmart and dropped some frozen bottles into it. Kept my
  cream ale at a happy 63 degrees and gave me my first clean profile beer with no esters. Just
  cracked it ea...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 12:17 AM
  What yeast was used? Some are more tolerant than others to warmer temperatures.Here is a nice
  chart to review for temps and general characteristics.. used mutons ale yeast,I know,I know,I
  need to sta...

• Posted in thread: Getting discouraged on 12-17-2012 at 12:13 AM
  Ok, fist, are you sure the extract brew have a hop bite? My first few had a type of bitterness
  that was similar to hops, but not quite. More of an underlying sour/bite. I atrributed that to
  the "extra...