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Wow talk about old thread - happy to say this beast is still working great! Both the heating element and the fridge portion. I've not done as much brewing in the past 5 years due to having kids but getting back into it again now. Lately I've used it to keep 10g worth of beer fermenting at...

WHa?! Are you serious, that horrible looking thing is a ladybug? In what stage, like does it turn into one or something? I ask because I have these ALL over my hops right now, the big black and orange things, and loads of what appeared to be aphids but have now all died and are just husks...

Oh I can definitely dig them up right now if I wanted to, but I'm moving in a month and a half so not sure if there's a point to doing so at this time. I can't actually plant them at the new place until end of June. I may think more about the whole 'move to a pot' idea, the ground at the new...

Good info guys, thanks! Unfortunately I won't have rights to dig on the property until the day before move day, so the window is pretty small. We'll see how it goes, fortunately the newer plants are pretty small still so at the least they should be a fairly easy dig and move. The big one...

Wow I forgot about this thread, yikes... Ya selling our home, won't have access to the plants after June unless they come with us. And harvest here has always been in September, by June they're still growing, no flowers even. I'm at around 12 feet of growth on the 4th year plant now, just...

I've got a four year old Nugget that has a gigantic crown and four second year plants that I need to move to a new house at the end of June this year. The plants are already doing well, Nugget is some 7 feet high on the twine, and the others are between 1-3 feet up already. How best should...

Holy confusing picture lol, needs some perspective!, pull back a bit lol

I like where this post is going...Ellen Ripley ftw!

I've got shoots on all my five plants, in Kelowna. But of course there's been no snow for a month or more and temps are 10-15c every day now!

I use distilled water for my star san and keep it for months at a time, until it gets gungy and gross (like residual bits of grain in there or other off colorings from rinsing things and dumping it back into the bucket). Distilled water keeps it from going cloudy, and is the recommended thing...

This is your cold break I'd presume. Irish moss greatly enhances this, makes for a pretty cool sight sometimes. Very normal and common for all grain batches. And safe to dump into the fermenter if you so choose.

I have the same sort of thing, efficiency ranges greatly between like 60% and 80%, though I used to get over 90% occasionally. I've tried a variety of crushes, some very fine, some thicker. A variety of mash thicknesses, basically no consistency anymore across the board. I figure it has to be...

10psi or so on your lines is enough to bulge lines that aren't made for this amount of pressure - like flexible silicon lines for instance. Try holding your thumb over the end of a line at 10psi for a while. Fine at first, but after a while it starts to get difficult. Same goes for lines...

I buy WAY more (read: never bought any before) single serve craft beers now. But that's maybe like 1-2 per month, and the rest of the time it's strict homebrew.

Thanks, I needed that.