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• Posted in thread: My Kegerator - The Piano Bar! on 01-12-2013 at 04:08 AM
  Picking up my FREE piano on monday... not excited about the move but pumped about having this
  in the living room!

• Posted in thread: Best way to soak oak spirals in bourbon? on 01-09-2013 at 03:30 PM
  I usually use oak chips and store them in a gallon freezer bag for about 1-2 weeks. When I add
  it to the secondary fermentor, I usually dump all the oak as well as the bourbon into the
  carboy (it's us...

• Posted in thread: 4 Hands Brewing Co on 11-06-2012 at 04:33 AM
  Looks like an amazing place.

• Posted in thread: Did you ever put a big beer on a yeast cake? on 10-31-2012 at 06:58 AM
  I might have missed this but are you pitching on the yeast cake from the primary or secondary?
  I have pitched onto the secondary yeast cake twice and both times I have had great results!

• Posted in thread: Stuck F.G. is way to high... on 10-31-2012 at 06:27 AM
  What kind of sugar do I add and do I need to boil it into a simple syrup?

• Posted in thread: dry hopping advice please on 10-31-2012 at 06:26 AM
  I recommend sinking the hops in a hop sock (add some marbles)... I have tried sinking and
  letting it float and every time the beers that had the hops completely submerged are always
  better.

• Posted in thread: Stuck F.G. is way to high... on 10-31-2012 at 03:44 AM
  Base ingredients original yeast was white lab wlp50012 lb two row pale 1 lb dark candy sugar (
  beginning of boil /sparg)1 lb sugar in raw ( beginning of boil /sparg)1lb of aromatics
  (munichx2)8oz of s...

• Posted in thread: Stuck F.G. is way to high... on 10-30-2012 at 01:08 AM
  I made a Belgian quad and I think I mashed too high at 158-160. My OG was 1.081 and it is stuck
  at 1.031. I contacted my LHBS and they said I had a stuck fermentation. Told me to try pitching
  more yea...

• Posted in thread: Can a plate chiller be hassle-free? on 08-10-2012 at 02:01 AM
  I love my plate chiller... I use a hop spider and back flush after I'm done. Soak it in
  sanitizer and flush it once again on brew day.Oh and I also have my plate chiller high enough
  so that when it fa...

• Posted in thread: Nostalgia KRS-2100 Conversion for Stout on 07-24-2012 at 02:02 AM
  The tank/valve for co2 and the nitro/co2 blend is different. As far as the faucet, they will
  swap out without any trouble.