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I laughed so hard when I read this. A great name!

http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=Luna+Bar Enjoy. Dafont.com is a wonderful resource for fonts... literally can go blue in the face looking through them.

I did see that method and wanted to try it, unfortunately my mead bottling time frame demanded that I do it before I could get a chance to run to the store for the extra stuff I'd need. I had the tubing and bottling cane laying around. I might implement that method for the small batches...

Hey guys, figured I'd chime in and share the name I brew under: The Ivory Eighty-Eight Brewing Co. The name was created when every single time we started brewing, the instruments almost always broke out during the mashing and boiling.

I tried the "tube only" technique Yooper, works well to rack and bottle my gallon of honey wine. To bottle it I added my bottling cane to the end of the hose so I coukd stop flow to change bottles but preserve the vacuum. Thanks for the idea, works just as good as my autosiphon and less of a...

Water in the tube I take it you just let it flow into the fermenter as well ?

Yeah, the sanitation portion I don't really care about, its quick and I have to sanitize the fermenter anyways. The clean up after wards is just kind of a pain. When you use the tubing do you just suck on the end of the tub until flow starts or are you more civilized and prefer a turkey...

Hello All, I have several small scale "experimental" batches of hard cider and honey wine all of which are about a gallon. I wanted to know if anyone had a racking technique that didn't involve pulling out the full auto syphon to transfer the liquids. While the auto syphon works well with...

This weekend will finally be the Belgian Blonde I've been trying to make as well as an English Bitter that I intend to start working on and tweaking.

Might actually get around to that Belgian Blonde, but regardless this weekend is a kegging weeking, both my Witbier and Altbier clones are cold crashing in the fridge awaiting a new home and pressure.

I agree with you there. Although the big daddy dial can be calibrated as you like to ensure that its on the mark. I will probably end up purchasing the Thermapen to simply be done with the problem. Might be worth filtering it a little bit to ensure no small glass particles escape into the...

Hey All, I recently had a thermometer break and drain itself into my wort just after I had finished cooling it. Unfortunately there isn't much information regarding this problem and I noticed many other people have had the same problem but no great solution. All thermometers sold for use...

Finished up a Maharaja clone yesterday and a potential for a belgian blonde this afternoon.