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Hi guys. Haven't been super active in a couple of years. I got an itch to brew this afternoon and started pulling out my brew supplies. I cracked open my kegerator for the first time in at least two years and remembered that I had 3 cornies in there. I know one is a cider. And one is...

A buddy of mine rented an apple press for the day. He hosted an apple pressing party. I hit up my father in laws Johnson and golden delicious trees and picked about 70 lbs of apples. The press was made locally (Elmira Oregon) I think it was made by corral?. Anywas, We ended up Pressing...

My set up is a 15 gallon hlt, 10 gallon rubbermaid cooler for MT, and a 15 gallon boil kettle. My dead spaces are 4 cups HLT, 3 cups MT (without tipping the MT), 6 cups BK. I brewed up a Mojave red recipe, posted here on HBT. With a grain bill of. 82% 8lb 4oz American Two-row 5% 8...

After my failed hop spider (my kettles are very broad and deep). The plastic became rubbery and allowed the coupling to drop into the wort. I started Trying to figure out how to filter the hops from going through the valve. So I made a trip to the hardware store and found this. I figured...

Well I finished up my brew sculpture last week. I decided to brew a cream of 3 crops as my first, since it was a cheap recipe and I wanted to see how it went with the design. Grain bill was 5.5 lb pale malt 2r us 2.5 lb flaked corn 1 lb minute rice with willamette hops at 1oz for...

I picked up two corny kegs last week. One has the smaller in/out connectors and one has larger in/out connectors. I was sanitizing the kegs with the hopes of filling them with my current batches. I took it apart, then cleaned it and put it back together. But now I have a leak on the out...

I have a breakfast bar/counter top that is covered with tile. The kitchen side has normal cabinets, stove, dishwasher, etc. The living room side has seating and one larger cabinet under the counter. When we moved in, my wife filled it with pictures and has not touched it in over 2 years...

How far below the kettle, should the burner be? I searched, but came up with nada. Forgot to add, these are the 10" HP burners.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/03/baltic.sea.beer/?hpt=T2 neat stuff. The article said that the yeast is still viable. Estimating the bottles are from around 1830 or so. Maybe they will come out with an ancient ship wreck ale yeast

Hmm. I have a confession to make. Seems like everyone I know is a huge fan of drinking hugely bitter IPAs. But I cannot bring myself to enjoy them. I can drink one bottle, then its just to much. They seem to be super popular around here. Every micro brewery has one or two. Even the...

Last year I had placed labels on the rhizomes. The hops grew fine and started to yield. Somehow the labels disappeared when I hung up the string for support. Well last years harvest I had to cross reference with pictures and the skotrat website. Was a bit of a pita because I forgot to...

Here is my plan so far. This will be with 1.5" square tubing. Using hurricane burners and hopefully kettles. The kettles I found through morebeer are 14" tall. I gave it 3 extra inches for the boil kettle, in case I use a keggle. The cooler mash tun is an approximate 21" for a converted...

I searched through the forum and did not see one for this year. Last years picture thread was pretty neat to look through. Since the rhizomes are shipping, I figured we could get another thread going for this season. So, post up the pics. Please include how mature the plant is, trellis...

:D I am having temperature control issues with the designated closet in the hallway. So my last brew had to go somewhere warmer. Its under a table in the living room. Its been 3 days and she has not noticed. :D and yes, I wish it was the other type of carboy hiding. :rockin:

I was walkig home from a buddies house tonight, after serveral beers. I could barely walk a straight line. I get about half way of a 13 minute walk and I get pulled over by the police. We end up talking for ten minutes about video games. He is on my 360 friends list, and plays Halo...

The first beer I remember drinking was around 13 years old. I was hunting with my father and he had shot a 3 point (6 point for the easteners) and we had to pack it a few hundred yards up a fairly steep hill. It took about two and a half hours to pack the deer out. When we got back to the...

Didnt know that ray liotta, burt reynolds, and jason statham. All made a lord of the rings knock off. The info button on the remote, said it was made in 2007. A little dissapointed, no hobbits have appeared yet. :( There are troll looking things, ninja sword guys, and burt mother...

bear with me, I am on my 4th beer of the night. But do different yeas ts for different styles come in different physical characteristics? I pitched some White labs ale yeast today that was a sort of congealed or clotted consistancy. The last 5 or so vials that I pitched had the...

I am new to the hobby, so I have not been following ingredient trends for very long. But I noted everyone and the retailers mentioning a hop shortage. So, what is the background on this? imports? infection? the election? BATF? Lunar cycle? Seems like this and all my other...

We moved into our new house in August. There has been a closet upstairs that has been filled with boxes of linens and other misc. crap that my wife has not touched since we moved in. Last week I opened it up and decided I could move all the stuff in the boxes to the top shelf. Giving me...