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  1. itsratso

    my pours are a mess

    alright, so maybe before I go crazy I can get some help here. I replaced my beer lines for the first time lately in my keezer. I didn't bother to measure how long my old lines were, but they were roughly 10 feet long. I never had any real problem with my pours before, the first beer would be a...
  2. itsratso

    anybody know this brush

    my favorite brush but i have no idea what its called or where to get one?
  3. itsratso

    mash temp and beersmith

    new to biab.also posted on the BS boards. I have noticed that when a recipe suggests an all grain mash temp a lot of times it is way different then the beersmith biab suggested mash temp. what do you guys do when brewing a recipe? go with the recipe temp, go with what BS suggests, something...
  4. itsratso

    Illinois All grain equip - these prices are crazy!

    DEALS DEALS DEALS what do I have to do to get you into one of these beauties today??? sorry. always wanted to be a used car salesman. anyhoo, got my xmas prezzy to myself - a new electric brewery from brew-boss :mug: so lots of stuff to get rid of. tried to keep the price and shipping as low as...
  5. itsratso

    scaling recipes

    gonna try my hand at this cheese thang, but a beginner question (there will be more ;) ). i bought the excellent artisan cheese making at home book and to hold my curds at temp i plan to get a thermal cooker-got the idea from this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0E3U1aRdnQ but to fit...
  6. itsratso

    the infamous dragon/passion fruit berliner

    anyone ever tried to make one? how? recipes? i have always been fascinated by this atomic pink beer !
  7. itsratso

    boil off question

    when you consistently hit your pre-boil gravity but are coming up short on your final gravity that's because you've figured your boil off wrong, correct? just checking to make sure i'm looking down the right alley here. :drunk:
  8. itsratso

    stupid boil over question

    so I would like to use my smaller kettle for a batch of beer, but looking at the preboil vol. on beersmith I can see I will be pretty close to having the kettle topped off. can you remove some of the volume to prevent boil overs and add it back in as the boil progresses and volume shrinks, or...
  9. itsratso

    one gallon batches, yeah this isn't right.

    i have also started a thread on beersmith's forums: http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php/topic,11688.0.html but i get a lot more responses here, so i wanted to run it by you people. if you haven't clicked on the link, i just started doing one gallon batches as experiments for new...
  10. itsratso

    1st saison - hmm..

    made a version of JZ's saison, added white peppercorn and lemon rind to it. i was pretty happy with how it turned out, at first. used the belgian saison yeast (White Labs WLP565). it finished low in about a month and wracked it to a keg with gelatin and cold crashing. as i said i liked it for a...
  11. itsratso

    Illinois johnson temp controller

    bought all of 1 week ago so like new obviously. i thought i could get away with a single stage controller in my summertime hot garage but have already decided i need to upgrade to a dual temp controller. my loss your gain. new with shipping $75, yours for $55 - i will pay for shipping to conus...
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    barrel aging question

    just curious. every time i read about barrel aging beer eventually the subject of bugs comes up. the lacto, brett, etc. that you seem to get when barrel aging. but what about beers that you don't want bugs in that are barrel aged? most bourbon barrel stouts don't have brett in them?
  13. itsratso

    summertime brewing

    soooooo great to have it warm out again finally. FEAR MY GARDEN HOSE MENIAL CLEANING TASKS !!!!!!! :rockin:
  14. itsratso

    no longer pissed at my pump.

    I started a thread here: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/just-freaking-pissed-stupid-pump-467447/ describing the problem I was having with my chugger pump. well, thanx to a bunch of experimenting and help from bobby at brewhardware.com (BUY FROM HIM) I have found out that my pump is working...
  15. itsratso

    Illinois air bleeder valve setup for pump

    just bought these and assembled it but never used, decided to go in a simpler direction. i don't know if anyone can use this but i will just wind up throwing these in a box and forgetting about them so maybe someone will want them. i am not going through the hassle of sellings these seperately...
  16. itsratso

    just freaking pissed.stupid pump

    I have used my pump about 7 times now. 3 times it airlocked. today is the first time I have not been able to fix it. I have burns on both arms (again from this stupid thing) and lost half my beer on my kitchen floor. eventually I just put a carboy of hot wort into my freezer to chill overnite...
  17. itsratso

    saving opened yeast

    gonna do a few one gallon batches so only need a half a tube of yeast for each gallon batch. can I use half a tube, fridge the unused half and pitch the other half later? within a short amount of time, say 48 hours at the most when I make another gallon batch?
  18. itsratso

    bourbon county stout

    lucked into some today at an off the beaten trail liquor store. last year you could get it all over, but this is the first ive seen it this year. and im in chicago! I have never traded, but would do a two bcs for one of HT or pliny (I know, original right).
  19. itsratso

    ok, so this made me laugh. i want one.

    http://www.fermentedtees.com/add-more-hops-t-shirt/
  20. itsratso

    the most frustrating thing about betterbottles is..

    ... those silly little metal retaining clips. I lose one every other day it seems and betterbottle makes you buy a whole repair "kit" just to get the clips. does anyone know: a. a source to order just the clips? what is the size, part number, etc. b. are these stupid things even needed? it...
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