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Menards Criterion 7cuft chest freezer, new - 150.00 Homemade STC-1000 Temp controller, around 40.00 or less if you've got electrical stuff handy 5gal keg new 70.00 from Ritebrew or less if you're okay with used from AIH Picnic tap setup (13' line and ends/clamps) around 15.00 Regulator - 35.00...

Love Milds and love the Peaky Blinders. Tagging this in as I'll be needing another English to brew up once I get through lagers/Belgians.

Don't cut them. You've got two choices - 1, figure out a way for them to go horizontally from the top and then wind them as they grow, or 2 - just let the mess grow until it flops over the trestle and them starts climbing back up itself and makes a giant mess. Either way you're in for a good...

I did one that was sort of reversed from a mash - 65% 6 Row 25% corn 10% rye malt 5% Roasted Barley Bittered with Cluster, on the slightly malty side. I keep meaning to re-brew it and swing it more to the hoppy side and at a higher mash temp to keep more body in the beer, it just get's lost...

I do use threaded disconnects - so yes I could go that route, but the idea being that I could sanitize the pinlock connection as well as the line/tap would be awesomely easy vs what I do now with unthreading the pinlock, hooking it up to my sprayer pump setup and going that route while I...

With one package of yeast (and unknown how old it is for cell count) into a beer that size it's going to lag - be aware and don't freak out if it doesn't do anything for a couple days. I did something similar once and way underpitched a quad not realizing how old the yeast was and how high the...

Denny - They do produce different results, at least in my beers, but at the amount I've been using in them I didn't like what was happening with carapils. Giraffe - In my experience so far, yes it does help with mouth feel and head retention but you really need to up the amounts to have the...

I've replaced carapils with flaked barley in all my recipes and LOVE the change. I won't go back to carapils again.

NIIIIIICEEE!!! If only they made them in pinlock versions... :mug:

If you really want one, NorCal can make you any size false bottom you want - just like the big ones. IMO, it would be an unnecessary expense when a paint strainer bag is like 4 bucks for two. :mug:

In the Pink box (C&H), the sugar cubes are the wrong weight - first problem is they don't fit into the mouth of the bottle, second issue with them being the wrong weight (too heavy) means you're actually over charging the bottles with sugar - you'll have way too much CO2, I did some Belgians...

Great timing! Code please, and thanks! :mug:

Well, I did my best to kill them, but danged if five of the six have sprung back to life. All I did at the end of last season was pull up the half drums and put them along side the garage over the winter with some leaves piled in. Hallertau, CTZ and Nugget have managed to pop out with a...

Closest would be Nugget for the bittering (Chinook sub), and Fuggles for the Will, adjusted for AAU of course. IMO, I'm not a fan of using Chinook as a bittering hop, I think Nugget is much better. As for the 10min addition, that's going to be what you taste - so I might actually go with Tett...

Go to the store and get some Domino brand sugar cubes - in the yellow box. Must be DOMINO, not the pink C&H brand ones. One cube will carbonate to 2.5ppm in a 12oz bottle, which is just about perfect. Just drop a cube in a sanitized bottle, fill as normal and cap. Come back in 3...