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Life kind of got in the way for me lately. Spent most of June and July this year in the hospital and have been working hard on recovery. Also been very busy training my service dog and taking care of her 1/2 sister. Unfortunately we lost her to a freak accident when she got kicked my one of...

I decided that I had bragged too much about the other two girls in my life, so I posted a pic of them chillin with me on the couch. The dog on the couch is Indi and she is a family pet that we rescued. The dog on the floor is my Guardian Angels Service Dog in addition to a companion. Dix and...

Been enamored lately with high powered air rifles. I started with a 149. dollar cheaper model, the a 209 dollar .22 and finally a 300 dollar Pre charged Pneumatic that uses 3000 PSI compressed air to propel a pellet at the speed of sound and even faster. All three will knock a tree rat out of...

Ok, heres a weird thought. I have an Oxygen concentrator I use for my lung disease, I wonder if I put a weight onto the end of one of my cannulas and submerged it in my brew whether it would add enough O2 to make all my little yeasties happy little campers... I can change the Liters per minute...

My wife gave me a juicer for Christmas and I juiced a 10 Lb bag of apples and got a rather thick juice almost like apple sauce, Should I strain this juice before attempting to use it to make a cider, or should I put it all in the fermenter after a good boil and let it go. Also should I add...

When bottle carbing a brew is there a requirement that the bottles are standing or laying to achieve the best results. I just bottled 2 cases of Hanks Hefe from Midwest and my new Keezer/ferm chamber can only accept bottles laying on there sides on the shelves that are not used by the pail or...

Brewed a Hanks Hefe in the rain Saturday, when I got up Sunday morning it was bubbling nicely. I let it remain ambient temp until this morning and put it into the ferm chamber at 14.5 degrees C ( about 58 F) It seems like the bubbling has almost completely stopped. Is it possible I shocked...

Always rain when I get my burner and all of my gear set up to cook off a batch? Got everything all gathered up, moved the burner out to the back patio, set up the tank, started warming the extract and bigger than $hit it started to rain. Not a hard driving gotta stay in and watch it rain, but...

Boiled 750 Ml of well water and cooled it to approx 70 Degrees F. I dissolved one cup of wheat DME into this while it was on a rolling boil. After cooling I tossed in one sachet of S-23 yeast and waited 15 hours. Not one bubble or indication that the yeast have been roused at all. So I...

What is the major difference between using straight CO2 or using the beer gas mix? Can you taste any difference, is it more stable or stay in solution longer? The reason I am asking is because beer gas is a specialty gas at my supplier and is much more expensive and I am trying to understand...

I have been watching several BIAB brewers and it appears that t he biggest concern when using that process is damaginng the bag by melting it to the bottom. I have also been watching the Hop Spider builds using the fine mesh and wonder if I constructed a basket of slightly larger mesh and...

I have a couple of fast growing cataracts from taking steroids for another health issue I have. I have been going slowly blind for the last 6 or 7 months and was reduced to living in the gray stained glass chapel. I had completely lost color, depth and distance vision and the entire world was...

After mashing your grains, what do you do with the left overs?? I am looking for some bread recipes to compliment my wifes most recent spur of the moment impulse purchase. She bought a super heavy duty Kitchenaide stand mixer this morning and we were discussing different bread recipes and I...

Been looking at verticle smokers for the last couple of weeks. All of them seem to fall into the 160-200+ range. I found a Brinkman vert model 800-5502-W that is 2 door charcoal fired. I had originally ordered a similar one from home Depot for 170. bucks including tax and "free" shipping...

Got my AHS Root beer kit about a month ago and got too busy to mess with it at the time. Things have slowed a bit, so I decided to give the Soda kit a whirl. After doing my Beer brewing sanitation routine I got out the instructions and in about 20 minutes it was in the Keg on the way to a...

Now I am hooled on making cheese too. Was reading some of the posts in the cheese section, got interested, did some due diligence on google and Wiki and ordered a cheese kit from Austin. Figured I would order a couple of the different kits since they were pretty cheap and it doesn't require a...

I am continuing work on my three tier and want to install permanent plumbing that is bolted to the stand securely with blocks and clips. Would it be safe to use regular galvanized plumbing pipe like found in the home hot water circuit, or should I consider copper , PVC or something else. All...

Scored a medium size upright freezer in excelent condition for a mere 50 bucks off of CL today. Already have the Ebay temp controller built according to the STC-1000 build thread. I have access to a couple of bar taps and I already have a 2 keg kegging kit waiting for a batch. It's about time...

Like the title says, I am looking for a recomendation for a very tasty lower alcohol recomendation. I can do five gallon AG batches as well as extract and partials so I am unlimited by my equipment. I lived in Germany for several years and made several trips to Belgium and Amsterdam and would...

Would it be possible to introduce the sparge water into the MLT from the bottom through the false bottom or manifold. My idea is to use my march pump to introduce heated sparge water through the outlet fitting near the bottom and fill to cover the grain, stir and allow to settle, then withdraw...