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luvmy40

Join Date:

10-16-2008

Last Activity:

12-20-2010 3:24 PM

ABOUT ME

City: Youngstown, OH
General Interests: Brewing,Shooting and Riding
Occupation: Electronics Tech
Real Name: Richard Schaefer
Favorite Music: Any thing but "Gangsta Rap"
Favorite Movies: Equilibrium, My Cousin Vinny, I am Legend
Favorite Television Shows: House, Heroes and CSI
Favorite Books: Stranger in a Strange Land, Crucible of Time
Clubs and Associations: NRA, APWU, Ohio SMART
Home Brewing Biography: I am very new new to brewing though I have been a beer lover since being stationed in Germany in the eighties. Before then, beer was a means to the end of getting drunk!

I have taken to AG like a duck to water! Moved from LPG burners to heat sticks, picked up a Barley crusher and have 5 all grain brews in various stages (correction, 4 AGs. The fist keg is floating!)
Future Brews: Oktoberfest
Primary: #1
N/A
#2
N/A
Secondary: #1
Blonde Ale
#2
kinda-like-an-Oktoberfest-type-deep-amber-liquid-substance
Kegged: Belgian Wit,
English Nut Brown (2nd batch)
Irish Red Ale
Kona Stout
Gender: Male
Status: Married

Posted in thread: keggels and diptubes and scrubbies, oh my! on 01-15-2010 at 04:51 PM
Thanks for all the quick replies everyone. For those that have the braid around the bottom
circumference: did you have to get multiple braids and use some sort of T joint? I've got one
for my MLT that...
Posted in thread: keggels and diptubes and scrubbies, oh my! on 01-14-2010 at 10:18 PM
I made my siphon tube run around the perimeter of the keggle and put a SS braid on for a
strainer. It lays right in the roll at the bottom of the keg. Once I whirlpool the wort after
chilling, the bre...
Posted in thread: Looking for an Avatar on 01-14-2010 at 09:56 PM
There was a great avatar on this forum that I cannot seem to find anymore. It was a very well
endowed women masquerading as an "underboob" GRRR(the character from Invader Zim). I have
searched unsucce...
Posted in thread: making spent grain bread on 01-13-2010 at 12:57 AM
My family loves spent grain or "Beer Bread".We have tried several different recipes and
recently experimented by using the yeast and liquid from a current batch of beer instead of
bread yeast and beer...