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• Posted in thread: Cooking with homebrew on 05-31-2012 at 02:32 PM
  Apfelwein in a beef chili. Pork chops marinated in my Canada Day tradition, Maple Wheat beer.

• Posted in thread: 5 gallon kit only nets 43 bottles? on 08-17-2011 at 04:02 PM
  Even the size of the bottles can come into consideration.The grolsch bottles I use in bottling
  hold 467ml, compared to around 350ml for a standard brown beer bottle. Understandably, I get
  less bottles...

• Posted in thread: Spent grains pile stolen? on 06-28-2011 at 12:13 PM
  I'd also think some hungry deer or other animal ate it...I guess those tricksy animals are
  hotwiring cars to get their food now. :D

• Posted in thread: Man, I love Apfelwein on 06-14-2011 at 01:47 PM
  The directions couldn't be any easier, but man those rhino farts at about day 5 were BAD.A bit
  of yeast nutrient when you add the yeast will take care of that problem. I put in about a
  teaspoon or so,...

• Posted in thread: The Joy of Brewing??? on 06-13-2011 at 06:27 PM
  Going down into the basement storage to grab myself some graff, and SWMBO asks me to bring up
  one of the big bottles instead, as she wants some too.:rockin:

• Posted in thread: So..Did I order a kettle thats TOO big? on 06-10-2011 at 06:44 PM
  If you cut that 60min Chinook addition in half, you will have almost exactly the same IBU's
  doing a full volume boil as you would with the 1oz of Chinook in a 3 gallon boil.I suppose I'm
  missing somet...

• Posted in thread: Help Me Figure Out How to Brew With Back Problems on 06-08-2011 at 08:53 PM
  Another option may be a brew buddy.

• Posted in thread: Beers with pop top (pry off) bottles on 06-03-2011 at 02:30 PM
  If it's a Red Barron/Emily capper, switching the metal inserts that hold on to the bottle neck
  from the 26 mm side to the 29 mm side might help.I'm going to check if I can do this when I get
  home from...

• Posted in thread: Beers with pop top (pry off) bottles on 06-03-2011 at 01:59 PM
  I've noticed some pry top bottles don't work with my "wing" capper. They're mostly Belgian
  imports that have a really tall and shallow crown. It just won't quite go all the way because
  the mouth of th...

• Posted in thread: Quick Turnaround Beers on 06-02-2011 at 02:29 PM
  Haven't tried it myself yet, but Edwort's Haus Ale is supposed to be about a 7-10 day
  fermentation, then crash and bottle/keg.Thanks for pointing this one out! I'll probably try
  this one alongside the...