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If it wasn’t a 5 hour drive on the west side of the lake, I’d be all over that for a Michigan Brewery tour!

So, first you made a bourbon barrel ale that had vanilla that was too overpowering. Then you made a porter, added the bourbon barrel ale to the porter wort, and then added yeast? What was your process when you made your bourbon barrel ale and your process for bottling it?

Doing it the way you did would also not leave with a full 5 gallons. The grains you use would soak up some of the initial water you used. I would do a little research on all grain brewing. That will give you a good base to begin distilling.

It could be any number of things. Just because you don’t see yeast moving around does not mean they aren’t working. You could not have a good deal on your FV and that is allowing the co2 to escape that way. I make, what I consider to be a lot of cider, about 15 gallons a month. The only true way...

Let it ride. Cider slowly chugs away.

Also, check your Anvil to make sure that your volume markings are correct.

As the yeast eats through the sugars, it increases the temperature inside the fermenter. So you could possible be 3-8 degrees warmer than the ambient temperature.

Refractometers are good for wort, not so much for beer. With that being said, you should rely more on your hydrometer to check to see if it is done fermenting. Are you using any type of temperature control or have you recently had a spike in temperature?

Voss is no joke. I head read and read, and read about it. Brewed a Dopelbock yesterday to play with Voss. Intentionally made 4 gallons to leave plenty of spaces in the fermenter. Pitched about half a pack at 230pm. This picture was taken at 930 am this morning.

Woke up and decided, let’s try a Doppelbock with Voss Kveik. Should be the second and last brew in my condo on the stove. Anvil Foundry should be here next week.

Have you checked your hydrometer? I dropped mine once in the tube, it did not break, but the paper moved causing all kinds of issues.

I wonder if you did something that would age for a bit longer if the results would be any different. My father is a die hard glass guy, I use plastic. We brewed a batch and split it, he was unable to tell the difference between our batches. His excuse was mine sloshed the 50 miles in my...

Tell them you have a Mac and they will change their spiel. It's fun, especially when you get one of your kids on the other phone asking about Microsoft. You can tie them up for hours.

Glad to see I was not the only one to actually read the article. They want to change the name to America for the summer and they want to put all kinds of "American" things on the labels.

I found what I will call "offerings" placed on the hood of a squad car. I made sure they were "destroyed".

Forgot about this thread. I let it sit in primary for 6 weeks due to life getting in the way. It turned out pretty good. I think I would get rid of the later EKG addition. But other than that, pretty good.

Munster does not have any fireworks stores or strip clubs. Both of those are in Hammond. And as far as liquor stores, there are only 2 in Munster.

I think we had 4 or 5 actual medical calls down there. Only 1 person was transported to the hospital, but that was quite possibly due to a fight over a phone charger...

Well I only ruined one pair of uniform pants after some ******* drunk, who had not gotten his DL yet, decided he wanted to fight one of the security guys working there. But all in all a good day. Only 4 arrests in 9 years of the event. I thank everyone for keeping their groups in line.

I'll be the one walking around with Isenblatter embroidered on my bulletproof vest.