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Here are some of the reason to use a vpn From fossbytes.com (advertising links have been removed) 10 Reasons To Use A VPN Service 1. Hide your internet activity from ISP I don’t think I need to explain this reason for using a VPN service any further. As told above, now your ISP has complete...

I have been using airvpn for several years and am very satisfied with them. They have plenty of servers all over the world, they do not log, do not throttle based on protocol (ie BitTorrent) and are reasonably priced. At home my connection is faster than with just my ISP (by a tiny amount) and...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Thanks for that KopperKat I am going to give that a try and see how it turns out.

Hi everyone I have a extract porter recipe that I have been brewing for a while and it has become my favorite brew. Recently I have started doing some BIAB recipes and would like to try and make my favorite porter AG but I can not figure out how to convert the amber LME in it to all grain. I did...

I have been brewing 5gal extract batches pretty much every week this year and everyone loves the beer I make. I am not sure that I really want to move to AG brewing but last week I got a new ten gal kettle and decided to get a BIAB bag as well since everyone here seems to think AG beer taste...

Grill size propane tanks weigh about 20LBs empty and about 40LBs full. Its easy to weigh them on a bathroom scale to see how much is left in the tank. If you checked one before brewing and then again after brewing it would give you a good idea on how much weight of propane you need to brew a...

I just brewed up a chocolate milk stout kit that I got from NB"s fall sale and was looking over the directions for fermentation while I was waiting for the wort to cool and noticed that the directions said to place the fermenter in a dark QUIET place, :rolleyes:we all know yeasties have very...

The beer selection around here is pretty limited. The local grocery store does carry beer from three N.C. breweries that I like. They all use the same bottles and the same plastic labels. I have not found anything that would soak them off (maybe I was not letting them soak long enough). The...

Hi everyone over the last couple of weeks I have been looking for a easy way to remove the labels and glue from bottles that have those plastic labels on them. Most of the beer I buy has plastic labels that peel off very easily but leave a lot of sticky glue on the bottle. I finally found a...

I used the 5 gal water jugs for my first couple of batches without any problems other than they needed a blow-off hose instead of a airlock. The main reason was the buckets that came in my NB starter kit were not air tight. Now I have a few 6.5 gal big mouth bubblers (plastic). I really like...

Hi everyone, today I found what has to be the easiest chest freezer that you can turn into a fermentation chamber that there is.:D Directions: Open side panel Cut the yellow and black wires that are attached to the temperature controller that is behind the knob on the the side panel. Wire-nut...

Gold panning is my main non brewing hobby but I do enjoy whitewater kayaking, Mt biking, hiking, my herb and vegetable garden, and starting today baking. I am trying to make my first spent grain bread err first bread period got about 15 minutes before I find out if I made bread or hardtack.

I think that warning is for when you use it with map gas or propane for wielding or soldering. As far as I know pretty much the only difference between pure/medical grade O2 and these cylinders is the equipment used to manufacture it and maybe a slight difference in purity. A wielding supply guy...

I have been using a $28 burner I got at Walmart that's rated at 55,000 BTU (sold as a fish fryer). The burner works fine for doing 5 gal batches, but there are two issues with it I should mention. The stand was pretty flimsy, I had to wield extra support pieces onto the stand and re-wield the...

There are two things I do that I don't see mentioned above. Since I don't label, I use a different color cap for each batch and record the color in the notes section of my brewing software. Also I place a blank cap on each bottle as soon as it is filled (keeps out the fruit flies) then I cap...

I second this and I have used them in NB's block party amber ale as well. Kind of a floral spicey not to bitter hop.

Lots of deer around here rural N.C and they take more than 20%. I finally fenced the yard but had real good luck with 2/3 powdered milk and 1/3 zest soap bars (graded up with a cheese grader). Put in a panty hose foot and tie to bushes/stakes around the garden, wet with a spray bottle to...

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Ben Harper has become my goto brewing music lately.

I do not regret buying a refractometer ($20@amazon) one bit. I use both and compare them for OG and FG they always match up, using a correction calculator for FG. When checking for stable gravity before bottling it sure is nice to only have to use a couple of drops to see if the beer is done...