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Thawed after a few days but really screwed up the carbonation. Found some good tricks on YouTube that fixed it quick but all in all it was a yuuuuuuuuuge PITA.

Well my second tap handle came in the mail same day as I applied the second coat of chalkboard spray paint. I drilled out the hole and added a manifold on the back for gas line connections so that's air tight. Came out the next afternoon to grab a pour of the imperial black IPA I just made and...

I'm gonna be driving to college station from DFW on Friday and would love to pick up the HLT. I could swing through Round Rock only slightly out of the way and meet you off I-35 somewhere? PM me your cell and I can get in touch with you that way.

I'm also a dufus and forgot to put my user name in comment. It's order #11884. You're the man.

Set up a pretty hobbled together direct fire HERMS and this was the first run. An all grain blonde ale kit from my LHBS. Used gelatin in the keg and it's the clearest I've ever gotten. Efficiency wasn't much better but maybe a few points, around 76%. Overall really happy with this one.

Interesting posts. I played with the recipe and used some different hops to go with a slightly more sweet and floral not but ended up tasting too sweet even though it ended at 1.014. Will go back to original recipe of known hops as those are more my style anyway.

I've had a few different 6 packs of it recently and one wasn't good. I think some of the variation has to do with freshness because the last one I just finished off was exactly what I remember it being >1 year ago.

Looking for Pliny. Have 4 cans for trade. Would prefer local swap. Less than 1 month from the cannery currently.

As no one has responded, how are you feeling about breaking these up? I'm looking for two 6.5 gallon carboys but definitely do not have use for 14 fermenters...

2085. Slipped off the counter cleaning. Finally an excuse to get a refractometer.

Anybody done a successful clone? Haven't seen any posts online of one and this beer is so good. I did a mosaic single hop ipa but the grain bill was all off and the hop was unidimensional compared to Community's (they have said they use other hops but no hints as to what, I suspect at least some...

Did the same thing on Saturday night, you must be in North Texas. The temp was great.

Built an all grain recipe with similar stats, OG at 1.085 and 11 oz of hops for sub-$50 through my LHBS...

This turned out really sweet for me. I'm surprised by that because it went from 1.076 to 1.006. Not sure if that is from using the 45 candi sugar? Anybody else notice that. It is delicious, just not what I was expecting. I harvested some yeast from a Prairie Artisan Ales bottle and that worked...

I did a wheat pale ale with wheat and pale LME. Used equal parts citra and Amarillo hops with the mangrove jacks hefe yeast. Turned out awesome.

Also found out they don't use brown sugar and there is some carared in there.

So I went to Peticolas today. Talked to one of the brewers and got some info. Only Bravo is used for the bittering addition in all their beers. Other hops in Velvet Hammer are centennial, Columbus, and chinook. All hop schedules are 90-30-flame out. No dry hopping. No brown sugar.

If I remember correctly, the attenuation was pretty much right around 75%. It was a partial mash though with ~75% LME (half wheat, half extra light). Really didn't get very hot so I didn't appreciate any banana. Slight clove probably but it stayed in the high 60s/low 70s. I mostly used it out of...

So how did this turn out?

Mine started sprouting within a couple weeks and then took off to about three feet and have kind of stalled but I think they're picking back up now after a couple weeks at the same height.