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01-19-2009

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ABOUT ME

City: NY
General Interests: Home Brewing (duh).
Rally Racing.
Hunting/Shooting.
Occupation: Energy Engineer
Real Name: Travis
Favorite Movies: Boondock Saints
Favorite Television Shows: Life
Clubs and Associations: Local F&G club, Saratoga Thoroughbrews
Home Brewing Biography: Basically I was bored. Thought it would be cool to try so I bought the book, "How to Brew". Got about 3 chapters in and put the book down and ran to the store to buy my starter kit. I've been brewing a few times a year since then. (still not a lot, only been doing this for about 2 1/2 years).
Future Brews: Brown Ale, Maybe a Porter.
Primary: 10 Gallons of Cream Ale.
Secondary: Light lager from a kit.
Bottled: Glcksweizen-I'll let you know how this turns out when it's done conditioning.
Kegged: Copper Ale.
Gender: Male
Status: Single

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Posted in thread: Garage home brewery on 06-22-2009 at 06:30 PM
I might also put in a plastic PEX water pipe even at eighteen inches...I believe they are
freeze resistant and at least would allow three seasons of convenient access to water.PEX is
awesome stuff. Pu...
Posted in thread: There is something in my beer? on 06-22-2009 at 06:27 PM
At our last homebrew club meeting, one of the judges found the tip to a beer gun in his sample.
The beer didn't win the monthly contest.
Posted in thread: Looking for insight on my area's water profile on 06-19-2009 at 04:51 PM
I live in the country and have a well for water. So I have no idea what's in it really. We have
a pretty elaborate water system that includes addition of HCL, chlorination, carbon filtration,
and most...
Posted in thread: I need a scale recommendation on 06-19-2009 at 04:39 PM
I have one of those Escali scales in silver. My only complaint is when I'm measuring out grain,
the bowl extends out over the readout and makes it hard to read. I don't know what the solution
would be...
Posted in thread: Call me an a$$ but.... on 06-19-2009 at 04:37 PM
Why the hell would you put salt in your beer? I've never heard of that.
Posted in thread: Don't dump spent grains down garbage disposal on 06-18-2009 at 02:14 PM
Do you bring in tree trimmings and feed them into your garbage disposal too? Seriously....it's
not a damn wood chipper. Why would you shove pounds and pounds of grain down your drain? That's
just aski...
Posted in thread: Taking keg without CO2 tank on 06-16-2009 at 09:37 PM
Could you carb the beer, then turn the corney upside down and serve from the gas out connector
using gravity??You could do that if you relieved the (negative) pressure in the keg, but now
you're in th...
Posted in thread: Taking keg without CO2 tank on 06-16-2009 at 04:28 PM
You can also get regulators that are adapted for use with paintball tanks. A paintball CO2 tank
is a bit more portable than a full sized CO2 cylinder. But like AJ said, you'll probably want
both event...