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mine is promised already.

cayuga, i've got one of the gift subscription coupons as well. would be $14 for a subscription. if you or someone else wants to use mine, let me know.

Not mine, I just saw it trolling Craigslist today. Its a commercial kegerator with a 2 and looks like a 3 tap tower listed for $150, might be a typo otherwise its a steal. I live in CT or I'd be all over this. Draft / keg system

it wants you to toast some of the malt. will give you some nice toasted flavor in the end. don't need to grind before you toast them.

you can buy glass etching stuff at most craft stores. uses a cream. never personally used it, but might be worth a shot unless you have sandblasting equipment

do a search on this and you will get a lot of threads and people arguing both ways.

i would think you want to make sure what you have is non iodized(plain) salt.

why not just let it ferment using that natural yeast from the apple skins? can't get more local than that.

usually the suggested time to carb is 2 weeks, the difference in your situation is that those 2 weeks should be at room temp. when you put them in the kegerator the yeast would have stopped/significantly slowed down. take them out, swirl the bottle a bit and let them sit at room temp for 2 more...

that might do something, but the plastic/rubber hose doesn't conduct nearly the same as the copper pre-chiller would.

I wasn't trying to convince you not to build the SoFC, just letting you know there are ways to keep temps down in the meantime, before you get it built. you were saying in your original post that you wouldn't be able to keep the temp down on this next beer, etc. I was giving you the easy low...

you deleted the pic.?

a lot of people who can't lager use this for octoberfests. why not use a swamp chiller or the large bucket of water with the fermenter inside it and add frozen soda bottles to keep the temp down. i use these methods and can keep my temps in the mid 60's in a 74ish degree room no problems.

i'd put them in the secondary. you'll probably want to wash them, then put them in star san, which should get anything off the outside, then freeze them. this will break some of the cell walls and let the flavor out more. might also want to smash them rather than put them in whole to make the...