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• Posted in thread: RIP - Ray Manzarek on 05-21-2013 at 12:17 PM
  My Pandora station was just finally getting to only playing Doors...Grooveshark today with only
  Doors music :(

• Posted in thread: 16.5 gallon eHLT / eBoil Kettle on 05-20-2013 at 07:24 PM
  PM me too

• Posted in thread: First all grain batch! on 05-17-2013 at 01:44 PM
  +1 on brew365, I use the sparge pal app on the iPhone, works well but usually call for too much
  water in the sparge, I drop by 1/4 gal each time.

• Posted in thread: First all grain batch! on 05-16-2013 at 12:45 PM
  Head over to John Palmers website: HowToBrew.com, read through, you will probably buy the book
  after, most brewers have this one.To answer the question we need to know what type of equipment
  you have....

• Posted in thread: How long before I give up? on 05-13-2013 at 07:23 PM
  I almost forgot, DON'T GIVE UP! Drink it! After the third beer carbonation wont be noticed ;)

• Posted in thread: How long before I give up? on 05-13-2013 at 07:21 PM
  Took me a few batches to get it right to. I even tried putting a flat beer into the
  SodaStream...DONT DO IT!!! one normal shot of CO2 = major mess...do it in very very very short
  bursts. :oI had a big...

• Posted in thread: Welch's Grape Juice Wine on 05-08-2013 at 06:04 PM
  I wish some of this stuff would last long enough to age. I have made about 40 gal of it and it
  never lasts longer than 3 months in the bottle. :(I made a gallon in Feb 2012 from this post.
  Bottled to ...

• Posted in thread: How many of us roast our own grains? on 04-11-2013 at 05:50 PM
  Does roasting your own malts destroy any of the starches in the grains? Do you lose some sugar
  potential?Yes, some of the sugars are destroyed with a darker roast. The roasted grains are for
  color and...

• Posted in thread: How many of us roast our own grains? on 04-05-2013 at 12:30 PM
  This is definitely something I want to try in the near future. My thought process, correct me
  if I'm wrong, is that I can buy domestic 2-row cheap and roast it to make my specialty grains.
  My LHBS sel...

• Posted in thread: How many of us roast our own grains? on 04-05-2013 at 12:27 PM
  Sounds interesting. Would a coffee roaster work or is it too hot? I suppose one could try it
  for the cost of 1lb of 2 row it wouldn't break your bank and its not like the final product
  couldn't be use...