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sorry - the photobucket iphone app does weird things sometimes. strangely enough they showed up correctly on my phone. they are fixed now :mug:

Thanks guys. I posted a couple pics of it in use here.

I just finished building a new brewstand, and thought it deserved a new logo. I've been loving brewing with this thing-every problem or annoyance I had with my old setup I solved with this one....and it looks nicer to boot. Sorry about the crappy phone pics.

just finished it the other day - haven't decided if I'm going to create a color version or not.

thanks guys - I won't do it again.

I had one, but I hated stirring like crazy for 15 minutes, hence the counterflow chiller upgrade.

I've bottled over 60 batches with my dishwasher. Mine has a 'Sanitize' setting, and they cannot use that term on a dishwasher unless it actually is actually NSF CERTIFIED to remove 99.9% of the bacteria from whatever is inside (NSF Reference) It's far superior to any other method I've tried -...

anyone think something like this would work? http://power-tools.hardwarestore.com/66-388-air-compressor-parts/air-line-filter-644095.aspx

No, and I have never used any air tools with this compressor - the only thing that has ever been attached to it is an air hose with a shutoff nozzle.

I was brewing last night and near the end of the boil I noticed that my Therminator outlet hose had gotten too close to the burner and had melted. I scrambled around to find a replacement hose and parts, meanwhile I turned down the kettle heat to just boiling, and pulled the hops out at what...

No harm will come from waiting, so it's not bad advice, but I've brewed milk stouts before and they all finish high. Of course it depends on a lot of variables like yeast strain, yeast health, yeast amount, fermenting temperature, recipe, etc, but if I had a milk stout fermenting for 3 weeks...

I tried cherry extract for the first time a couple weeks ago. It was a 4oz bottle and the instructions said to use the entire bottle for 5 gallons. I didn't trust this so I poured 1 cup of the beer into a measuring glass and started adding drops of extract in with a small pipette. I put 10...

milk stouts are suppose to finish high - if the hydrometer hasn't moved in a couple days then it's fine to bottle - especially if it's fermented for 3+ weeks

Interesting.... I have never had a beer finish below 1.011, with 1.014-1.017 or so being pretty average for around a 5% beer. Everything I use is calibrated, and I have always mashed out (both with fly and batch sparging). I normally mash around 152°, but haven't really seen a huge difference...

But they use yeast with known attenuation. Say you bottle a batch that used a yeast with 68% attenuation, and then added some yeast with 77% attenuation: potential bottle bomb.