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I recently was tasked with making homemade crystal/caramel malt for a competition I am in. I started with three pounds of pale ale malt, spent a day making the specialty malt, and used it in a dry-hopped pale ale. Even though I didn't roast the grain after drying it, it left a lot of residual...

Someone made a comment about my name: snowblind5150 and it got me wondering if your forum name got picked based on anything meaningful to you or if it wound up being based on a random string of available characters. 5150 is the police code for escaped mental patient, and snowblind is a...

I love the fact it doesn't take much longer to brew a 10-gallon batch, but the bottling takes twice as long. It took all afternoon(probably a total of 5 hours) to bottle a ten gallon batch and a 5-gallon batch. It'll be worth it in a couple weeks, though. :mug:

Eventually, I plan to upgrade to a full-blown control panel, with PID, SSR's another electric kettle and selector, similar to what is on Kal's site. However, I don't think I can free up that much cash right now. In the interim, I am trying to figure out if it would be cheaper/worth it to...

I've been a member here since April and have looked up info on the forums for a while before that. I'm hoping to be more active on here and most importantly brew more. I homebrewed with a co-worker about 10 years ago, but SWMBO did not want me to make beer at home since she does not like the...