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Been subscribed to this thread for many years; it's time I put in. You mentioned sweet pickles so I'll post my variation of them with a spicy kick. Ingredients 3 english seedless cucumbers, sliced ½ onion, thinly sliced 3 jalapenos, thinly-ish sliced 4-5 very hot peppers like habaneros, sliced...

My first two: Sinister Beard: Blue Chevy Balls Out Brewing: Dead Fish

About 3 gallons...pretty damn far off, lol.

Any particular advice for carbing this beer in a bottle (I have only kegged, force carb'd)? Mainly, with regards to me brewing this beer high gravity (I have a tendency to take things too far). Any advice for conditioning? Anyone brew this this with any other ale yeasts? Thanks, in advance...

I don't think that it has been discussed, but I have not ready every single page of this thread, albeit close. So. I made one of my first 'serious' mistakes with this brew. It is worth mentioning that this was my first BIAB batch, as well. So, I did not account for what the grains would soak OR...

Thank you for mentioning this as I have clean thin lava running through my plumbing, too. I did not know exactly what happens when you pitch hot. Damn Texas.

Quick update - I pickled a crap ton of stuff! I had lil' smokey's, red hot links, garlic, jalepenos, pearl onions, eggs, serano peppers, habanero hot sauce, white vinegar, apple cider vinegar, black pepper cajun hot sauce and homemade jalepeno green sauce. I pretty much just cooked the wet...

I am very inclined to believe you, LansingX. My brother and I performed a small experiment last night. I wanted to make sure that it wasn't just me and my taste buds. So we took a few of the warm bottles and stuck them in the fridge with the others that had been there for a few days. First we...

I have a strange issue for which I am looking to get some advice. I have a batch of Irish Red (extract) that I just brewed and bottled. Three weeks in a primary, two weeks in bottles. If I throw a few in the fridge and drink them that night, they taste absolutely incredible. If I leave them in...

What is brand is that fermenter and where did you get it? Nice build, btw.

I am thinking that I won't even have the spear in the (sanke 1/4 barrel slim) keg (and therefore none of the aforementioned seals). I may just cover it with rubber-banded paper towels that have sanitizer on them. Then once it cools off, stick the carboy cap and an airlock on it. I realize there...

That is a good point about transferring it to get it off the trub but my main reason for wanting to let it ride in the keg is that I need all the other vessels for other brews. I will have the bucket available for a day or two so I could get the brew off the trub but it would need to go back to...

I posted this as a comment in a thread about chilling wort but figured I should have posted it as a thread and not in the already existing (sort of a different topic) thread since it was so long-winded: So, looking at the Aussie method of doing this, anyone see any problems with me using a keg...

I started collecting bottle for homebrew reuse but one day I realized that I had about 150 different types of beer bottles. I just separated out one of each to not use for homebrew and maybe one day I'll have a good idea for something to use them for. Brew room shelf decoration or something, I...

So, looking at the Aussie method of doing this, anyone see any problems with me using a keg to do the 'no chill' method? The only issue I think I might run into is that the keg is 7.5 gallons and I would be putting 7 gallons into it, leaving a bit of headspace (read: oxygen). I am thinking that...

That is the assurance I was looking for, thanks!

If anyone has any input on this, I would greatly appreciate it. I am wondering if I can take a Brewer's Best Australian IPA kit and scale it up to 7.5 gallons. I have a couple ounces of extra hops sitting around and some DME I could use but I'm not really sure how much I might need. Would it be...

Found another good source for cheap chillers: https://coppertubingsales.com/

My possibly derpy question is this - Say, I were to do a 3 gallon boil with this same recipe and put the 2lbs of extract into the boil, would I then add the rest of the extract at FO and top off to 5 gallons? Metacomb - What were your original plans with this? If this can be worked to make a...

This. I live in central TX as well and have had reasonable success with the homemade swamp cooler method. Try to find the coolest place in the house (sounds obvious but the answer may be different during the day when you are away) and keep it there. My wheat turned out pretty reasonable, all...