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32605.25gal + 5.25 gal IPA ____________ 32610.5 gal

I have been flying with homebrew in my checked baggage. I put each bottle in a small cardboard box not much bigger than the actual bottle and stuffed the space with socks. Everything went fine. I think you should pack them as tight as possible so that there is no room for them to "fly arround"...

9462 gal + 5.5 gal Wheatporter ___________________ 9467.5 gal

I had 7.5 g/L medium toasted oak chips in the secondary of my recent oatmeal stout. after one week i pulled a sample and decided it was enough (on the edge of too much) so next time, i will take less and take more samples to optimize the timing a little...

if (or when) you speak a sufficient ammount of german, stop by at our german homebrew-forum http://www.hobbybrauer.de regarding equipment, the problem here is that we have no LHBS whatsoever. Either you order online (see post above) or you improvise ;) Althhough german beer is of relatively...

Hey, Henninger was a brewery in Frankfurt am Main, but was sold as a Brand to the Binding (later Radeberger) group in 2001. Here a history of the brewery in german http://www.myhenninger.de/cms/startordner/514.html here a short version in english...

4740 gal + 5 gal from cheddarhed3 + 5.5 gal Pale Ale ______________ 4750.5 gal

I brewed 20 L of that in December using BRY-97 and changed the hops. Hops: (90 minutes boil) 60 Minutes - Magnum (15 % α-acid): 8.5 g (20%) 20 Minutes - Citra (14.2 % α-acid): 8.5 g (20%) 10 Minutes - Centennial (10 % α-acid): 10.6 g (25%) 0 Minutes - Cascade (6.9 %...

I know people that routinely dryhop with "Perle". Thats definitely worth trying. The new German flavor hops (Mandarina Bavaria, Hallertau Blanc, Huell Melon, Polaris) sound better than they actually are. I had a dry-hopped Mandarina-Weizen that did not much taste like "mandarina" at all...

428 gal + 5.5 gal Oatmeal Stout =============== 433.5 gal

52939 gal + 5.5 gal Rye Red Ale ============== 52944.5 gal

Besides yeast, the main player in ethanol production is Zymomonas mobilis. Already 20 years ago their ethanologenic pathway was sucessfully introduced into E. coli [Ohta et al., Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 57(4):893–900, 4 1991.]. The problem with that, is mainly that E. coli...

…or you can go to google.com and type site:homebrewtalk.com stir plate and you will only get results on HBT :mug:

Inspired by this thread and out of frustration about stirrplates on ebay selling for € 50 - 100 and even more, i decided to build my own :) - 12 V plastic PC-fan - 4 screws M5 x 40 - on/off switch - led - 650 Ohm resistor - 1 kOhm potentiometer - 12 V - 500 mA powersupply - PS box...

49248 gal + 5 gal IPA ======== 49253 gal