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I'm doing a mini mash kit that uses the below ingredients. Also included in the list is PPPG of each item as I found them listed on a couple sites, and my estimated SG for each addition in a 5 gal. batch... Specialty Grains: 1 lb. Special B Malt (27 PPPG) = 5.4 4 oz. Debittere Black Malt...

I'm going to install a heavy duty shelf in my mud room to store my primary ale pail, as well as several secondary carboys. It's temp controlled year around and only a few feet from my kitchen counter so it's the ideal spot for me. Of course, in my ever snowballing ideas, I figured if the carboys...

I don't believe in defacing my vehicles with bumper stickers, but if I did these would be my first choices: -My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's Car. -Vote Freedom First -Keep Honking, I'm reloading. -McCain 2008 What's your favorite?

Extract: 7 lbs. Extra Pale LME (60 Min.) Grains: 3 oz. Biscuit Malt 1/2 lb. Crystal 90L 1/3 lb. Victory Malt 6 oz. Munich Malt Hops: 60 Min. - 3/4 oz. Northern Brewer (4.95 AAU, 9.88 IBU) 15 Min. - 1/2 oz. Hersbrucker (1.65 AAU...

I'm confused. I read on HBT about how good beer/cider gets the longer you age it, even up to a year. I also have read on here that it won't condition in the fridge because the yeast just go dormant. But in my latest issue of BYO they made the comment (in the olive oil article) that no home...

I just bought a 4-pack of Grolsch 'Premium Lager' (for the bottles) and tried it for the first time. My first reaction was 'yuck'. To me, it tasted like a BMC (which I don't mind) but with a...I want to say sour taste. Not really a hoppy bitter taste, but more of a sour taste to it. I kept...

Someone told me about it at work, it's a Turkey, stuffed with a duck, which has been stuffed with a Cornish game hen. I've only had duck once, and that was some perverted form in a Chinese restaurant. So, I'm not sure if I like duck or not, but I understand it's quite greasy, which makes...

I ordered the Fat Tire extract kit from NB. It arrived today, and I'm not happy. It was suppose to come with: 1 oz. Willamette (60 min) 1 oz. Mt. Hood (15 min) Instead it came with: 1/2 oz. Summit Pellet Hops Alpha 16.7% (60 min) I understand that there is a hop shortage, and they...

Well, it's -17° F. this morning, and I forgot to plug in my block heater last night. :mad: I just killed the battery trying to start my truck. :mad: So, now that I have the block heater, and battery charger plugged in, it looks like I have an extra 30 - 60 min. to read HBT this morning.:ban...

I really like Fat Tire, and just bottled my first batch. I was lucky enough to do it just before they ended the limited edition of the N.B. Fat Tire yeast, but not soon enough to taste it before they quit selling it. I didn't have they time/equipment to save any from the primary, but when I...

Every once in a while, you find a real genius...

I have a 30 gal. aquarium with fresh water tropical fish. I use well water in it, because I'm too cheap to by bottled water for fish (heck I don't buy it for SWMBO, the fish are definitely not getting it). I've had this set up for the last 2 or 3 years, and have had no problems with it, except...

SWMBO and I have our own computers, and we use to have earthlink's dial up service, but we switched to WildBlue because earthlink charges $21 a month for one computer, plus charges by the minute if you have a second computer connected at the same time. That was for only 28K dial up, since we...

I posted a thread about a month ago, looking for a LHBS in Montana. Which someone pointed me to. (Thank you for that!) However, I also asked if there were ANY home brewers in Montana. Since no one replied saying they're in Montana, does that 'like' make me the president of the HBT-Montana...

I just finished brewing my Fat Tire extract clone from AHB, and it went nice and smooth. Then, while recording my process, I decided to calculate the IBUs. I came up with only 12.46 total IBUs. Does this seem right, or did I goof the math somewhere? Does anyone know what a Fat Tire should be...

My long awaited first extract + grain kit arrived and I'm brewing it today. I'm confused because the instructions that came from AHB say to chill the wort in a ice-water bath to get it below 80, then 'pour' it in to the primary fermenter. Won't I need to whirlpool the wort, and siphon from...

I'll keep it short so the people as pathetic as me (the ones on HBT on Christmas) can get back to there family. I received my AHB Fat Tire extract clone kit last night. I put the yeast, and LME in the fridge. I will brew it tomorrow, so I took the yeast out to warm up this morning, and will...

I bottled my first cider last Sat. and just barely had enough for 48 - 12oz. bottles. I really wanted to have two FULL cases (I'm just anal that way). My problem was that the bottling spigot is about 1 1/2 inches above the bottom of the bottling bucket, and it sticks out into the bucket far...