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Over the weekend I ordered the Kegco K209B-3 with the stainless tower and Perlick 630SS faucet upgrade, and also added the "Draftec Deluxe Hand Pump Pressurized Keg Beer Kegerator Cleaning Kit w/ 32 oz. Cleaner.” Then (from another company) I ordered 36’ of "Ultra Barrier Silver™ Antimicrobial...

One of them there small gears wobbled a tad in this clockwork crime. Stolen in Airport Robbery (part way down) Carrying out a robbery at Penang International Airport, a group of thieves made off with a bag of snack cakes instead of a bag of money. Four brazen robbers, two armed with...

Grabbed the wrong yeast; grabbed a pack of Nottingham yeast and used it. Came very close to speaking in asterisks after that move, but done is done. Two questions: 1 - Do I now need a blow-off? 2 - What are the likely results? Thanks, Rick

Okay, every time I look over more of my beer's gone. The glass is going empty faster than I'm drinkin' I'm thinkin'. I'm figuring elves -- or, since I'm close to the King's birthplace, maybe it's Elvis. But somebody's sippin' when I'm not lookin'. I tried watching out of the corner of my...

While I know it's way too early (and you can tell it in the taste), I tried one of my Wee Heavy beers; wow. I'm not to the drunken ramblings point yet, but if I were to drink two of these . . . . Next time I brew a heavy, I'm looking for six ounce bottles. Pretty tasty, though sweet. I...

Interesting view that's oft cited here in various ways. I read this guy for the wine discussion, but thought I'd post the link to this post on beer. Cold Beer? Wise Move A partial from the article: "Yet, the big beer companies apparently find it repulsive that people could conceive of...

From a different thread, but posted here so as not to hijack the other: Based on what I've thought true, that goes against all that is good and holy -- coming from a Rev, that's particularity appalling. :) But, seriously, is that now understood as a good practice? If so (and it's not that...

If it doesn't come through, link is: http://www.comics.com/comics/brevity/archive/images/brevity2008062037728.gif Rick

I'll be bottling my first wine in a couple of weeks and I hadn't given much thought to the corking process until reading the thread titled How to prepare corks????. I have an Italian floor corker and bought the synthetic corks from Austin Homebrew Supply. After reading the thread, I searched...

When my yeast package came in about a week ago it was "puffy." I've never used the activator packs before, so didn't think anything about it, just put it in fridge. But today when trying to activate, I couldn't feel any pouch inside (because it's puffy, so it is full of air). I could feel...

We had this plant a couple of summers ago, and I wanted to get another -- but my plant identification ability stops after roses and sunflowers. Any dedicated flower gardeners here know what type of plant this is? Thanks, Rick

Regardless of your political persuasion, I'm pretty sure this is in the book of Revelation as a sign that the end is near: Hillary Clinton to Appear on ‘The O’Reilly Factor' Rick

I was cleaning out my shop today and ran across a stash of ten or so BYO magazines. I had ordered some back issues and two of these are duplicates: the Jan-Feb, 2006 issue and the Mar-Apr, 2006 issue. First PM that arrives with an address can have the pair. Rick

For those few who might not know, the bitterness ratio is a relative term found by dividing the IBU by the original specific gravity (with some modification); for example, an IBU of 30.2 and an original SG of 1.065 is done by dividing 30.2 by 65, resulting in 0.464 bitterness ratio. Beer Smith...

I was thinking about this and realize it's probably been covered before, though a quick search didn't turn it up specifically. Question being, what are the various reasons to brew? What got me thinking was that some folks post about brewing to save money and I suppose with enough volume you...

I brewed my first big beer, 1.086 OG. I was smart enough to use a blow-off tube but was surprised at the amount of beer lost. It's a six gallon primary and you can see in the first photo below where it started. The second looks to have lost at least a gallon! Do you guys use larger than...

First time oxygenating with the aquarium pump method - other than containing it, is this an issue (see pic below)? Does it get worse? I've got fifty more minutes of this (to get an hour's worth). Rick

One thing you learn as a pilot is to use checklist even for the most obvious things. As I was watching the porter swirl into the bottling bucket a couple of hours ago, the process much eased by my nice, new auto siphon (yeah!), my 'yeah!' turned into 'oops' when it crossed my mind that...

Neither here nor there and won't affect how I write it, but I've seen it both ways so just wondered the predominance. Rick (Greater than)

I plan to start kegging down the road and will convert a 4192. I'm not ready to take the plunge yet, but may go ahead and pick up a 4192 to store some bottled brew in. My box of 22oz bottles is 9.5" X 12" by 12" tall. My question is, would four of these stack in the 4192? Looking at the...