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If they're first year plants just let them grow so they can establish a good root system.

I drink a fair amount of my homebrew and a good amount of craft beer, but I can tell you one thing. When I'm sitting on the lake in the 90 degree TN summer sun the last thing I want is some big craft beer or high abv beer. I'll take a cheap bmc lite/light beer without thinking twice about it and...

A propane turkey fryer type burner is cheap as is a 44qt pot with a strainer basket. I do biab beers up to 9%abv this way and they come out fantastic. A Rubbermaid tub and some frozen bottles of water along with a aquarium power head and I can maintain temps pretty much where ever I need them to...

I've done several batches with the Home Depot paint strainer bags with the elastic top. All my beers have come out quite tasty. The temperature that you mash at isn't hot enough to melt the bag.

It's a new hydrometer about a month old never been dropped so I'm almost positive it's not my reading. Yeah I'm sure it's 1.036 I hadn't had any beers yet when I was checking it. The beer tastes good just doesn't seem as filling as a porter should be or as much body as I would have thought it...

Around 155 I believe. It was supposed to be 152 but I figured the few extra degrees wouldn't hurt it. I'll have to check the calibration of my thermometer again. If it was off and ended up being to high would the addition of some boiled and cooled dme help to get things going again by adding...

I brewed a NB bourbon barrel porter on 3/17 using the biab method. My og was around 1.060 ( had a few to many while brewing and misplaced my notes) three weeks later I'm sitting at 1.036 which I feel is not so good. I pitched a packet of Nottingham dry rehydrated but no starter at around 68...

I couldn't imaging boiling 9 gallons of wort on my kitchen stove. I brew outside with a turkey fryer burner an it really gets a good boil going. Boiling over all on the stove and in the house is not pleasant. Outside I just hose it away. Also if your worried about spending the cash on a mash tun...

I use primarily the shorter Sierra style bottle and have never had a problem removing labels by filling the bottle with super hot water and then soaking in a sink of hot tap water. Let them soak for about 15 minutes and the labels just pretty much come off. Maybe a little green scrubbing of some...

I use it all the time and don't even think twice about getting the diluted solution on my skin. Heck I put my hands all in a bucket of the stuff. I have gotten the concentrated solution on my hands before and just washed it off and did not call a poison center and I'm still around or so I think...

Buy the wine dump it in a still and distill the alcohol from the wine!

I use a smaller 3 gallon water jug from Walmart for my 2.5 gallon batches and not one problem or off flavor at all. I would use them and not think twice. It's not like your distilling through a car radiator

I am wanting to use this recipe but am only wanting to do a 2.5 gallon batch due to space. Is this a 5 gallon recipe, and how much water was used to start with? I would like to do a full boil to end up with the 2.5 gallons. Also I'd be doing an extract along with steeping the malts. Thanks

I had heard from a miller/coors rep was that keystone was the same thing as coors light and that it didn't pass the coors light color test. They just rebranded it as keystone.

Ha ha yeah if I could find a use for an empty 135 gallon and a mag drive 12

So if I get a valve to bypass the di portion of the filter and use just the ro in pretty much getting rid of the chlorines and a few other things. I can always add minerals back to the water if need be.

I may just take a sample of my ro/di water to have it tested and have the tap water tested also. I'd be brewing mostly pale ales, ipa and iipa. I do like the idea of starting with a blank slate and adding the minerals to match places and styles. Off to the chemistry forum. Thanks!

Honestly I'm not super sure about my local water make up but I'm sure I can have it tested for mineral content. It's more of a slight chlorine smell that I'm not too fond of. Nothing too chlorine smelling and not so bad I won't drink it but was just curious what others thought or did with their...

I'm wondering about using my ro/di filter for making beer. I used to use it for a saltwater tank but that hobby has went away and now I have a really nice water filter to use. I know the ro/di filter pretty much strips everything out of the water but I'm not really amazed with the taste o my...

I'm also quite curious about this recipe as its one of my favorites from NBB and also one of the girlfriends favorites as well. Id like to do an extract/partial mash steeping recipe. If anyone has any suggestions for a 5 gallon batch I'd love to hear them.