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RadtasticRix

Join Date:

02-26-2011

Last Activity:

05-02-2013 10:43 PM

ABOUT ME

About Me: I am from Alberta Canada, I love to snowboard and have recently gotten into brewing beer. I have made 4 batches from extract kits but would like to get into other stuff too.
General Interests: Snowboarding,beer
Real Name: Ben Rix
Favorite Music: Classic Rock,
Home Brewing Biography: -I have a kit I bought from a local store, I keep the beer in the plastic primary for 5 days or so then rack into a carboy
- I have tried 3 syrup kits and they have been less than delicious but ok. I also brewed a Brew House kit that started with liquid instead of syrup and it is much better
-I would like to learn ways to experiment with my brews
Future Brews: -A porter,
Secondary: -Wheat Ale, some with Orange
Bottled: -2batches of "Canadian Adventure Ale"
-1 batch of Brew House "mexican cerveza"
-i "Australian Lager"
-1Dark Ale with first attempted use of specialty grains
Gender: Male
Status: In a Relationship

City: Camrose

State/Province: AB

Posted in thread: Ten minute cooler mash tun conversion on 05-03-2013 at 12:37 AM
I am assessing options for converting a rectangular cooler and noticed that people always make
a copper or PCPV manifold, or use braided hose. Why does nobody use plastic hose (like that
used for syph...
Posted in thread: Seal/Label Generator - An Easy Way to Make Labels on 03-06-2011 at 08:40 PM
This thing is awesome! would I buy special paper to print it on? what kind of stuff did you use
to glue it to bottles?
Posted in thread: brewing with apples on 03-03-2011 at 09:01 PM
I'm not sure if this helps, but I asked someone about adding fruit and they told me that you
should pasteurize fruit instead of boiling because boiling is somehow bad for the flavour. They
said to kee...
Posted in thread: Sanitation (dead horse, i know), and DME on 02-27-2011 at 07:11 PM
Wow! that was quick, thanks everyone! About the DME, my town just has a small brew shop with
syrup kits.. no hops, no grains. A roadtrip is obviously in order but is there any way to
improve these kit...
Posted in thread: Sanitation (dead horse, i know), and DME on 02-26-2011 at 09:25 PM
I have been watching an endless number of podcasts and videos trying to learn. Most seem to add
cold water to the hot wort to bring the water level up to 5 gallons.. does this water need to
be boiled ...

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