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Today I picked up: 8lbs 2-row 2lbs pale malt (says toasted. Does that mean I actually toast it in the oven?) .5 lbs crystal 60L .5 lbs wheat flakes I also got a pack of us-05 and 2 oz of simco and 2 oz amerillo. In the fridge I have some mt hood, cascade, chinook, and centennial. Also have...

Just curious about other homebrewer's hobbies and professions. Think it's interesting to see how how brew spans all different types of people and personality types. Forgive me if this has been done. Ill start. For work I'm a journeyman plumber and a foreman for a large plumbing firm. I also am...

I've seen different numbers but I saw on a website that a ten pound tank should do 31-44 corny kegs. How does that number work? Does carbonating and dispensing count as one keg or two? If you do a 5-10 second purge on a corny when kegging does that take a lot? I've purged, carbonated and...

Bough the 3 keg set up from keg connection. Using it in a coffin keezer. Anyone have issues with the length of the lines it comes with? They are five feet long. I'm concerned about to little length and too much foam. Will be blowing air into the coffin once I find the 12v adapters to my fans...

So I bought some 90mm computer fans off Craigslist for my Irish coffin keezer. I took a 120v - 12v step down transformer/charger and hooked it up. All the fans worked great. So then I twinned the black wires from 2 fans and the red wires together and tried it and nothing worked. And now none of...

Building Irish coffin keezer. Ordered the Perkins with 6" shanks for fridge door. Problem is with that length is that the coffin is going to be really far forward on the bar top. Anyone ever cut the shanks down?

Discovered a reoccurring theme in my life. White and tan. My bulldog is white and tan. My f150 king ranch is white and tan and so I would like to make a caramel cream ale to compliment te dog and truck. Anyone have a good recipe for one? I will make the caramel my self as I have a good recipe...

Got a recipe for my LHBS for a traditional porter. Want to make this a chocolate porter. Recipe as follows in picture. Also bought a 1/2 lb of chocolate malt and will buy coco nibs. Should I add the choc. Malt in the mash or nibs in primary after fermentation (I generally don't do a secondary)...

Doing a honey brown for a wedding. The course are giving away unpastiruzed (but spun) strawberry honey as gifts. Want to use some in the ale. Recipe has 8oz of honey malt in it and says to add a pound of honey with 10 mins left in the boil and then prime with 3/4 honey. I force carb so don't...

I call this "Too young to be bitter" Really happy with how this random Franken-ale turned out. Was a bitter recipe but used American yeast and a ton of random hops 11lbs row .75 lbs barley flakes .75 lbs cara-8 1.5oz Zeus (whole) 60 mins .8 oz centennial (whole) 30 mins 1.25 oz centennial...

Had a small boil over on a nut brown ale I was brewing back in the stove top days. This is what the splash on the hot stove surface turned into. Do you see what I see?