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If you're limited in fermentation footprint space try a 4.4 cf minifridge with a separate temperature controller. I have a GE GMR04 that I got off Craigslist for $25 (it took me a LONG time to find one that size that cheap) hooked up to a Johnson Digital Temperature Controller. My 6 gallon...

This is EXACTLY the idea/post I've been looking for. I just bought a very similar fridge and my 6 gallon Better Bottle just barely won't fit. I was dreading building a cabinet or wood collar for it, I have 0 carpentry skill and probably would have removed an appendage if I did try to put...

Congrats on the first batch! For me, if something doesn't go wrong it just isn't a proper brew day! My last batch I was transferring from the kettle to the fermentor when everything started to go wrong. Auto siphon clogged, transfer tube kept popping out of the fermentor spraying beer all...

Is it a lemon taste or a sour taste? Pure guess but it could be some kind of infection. What kind of sanitation procedures did you use?

Welcome! I'm in Charlotte as well. Just got started in January and this site has been a great learning resource for me.

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Brewing yeast used as a testing platform for building biological "circuits". MIT Technology Review: Brewing with Synthetic Biology

I was thinking the same thing this morning, exactly how much of that scene was edited to get the desired result for the movie focus to move forward. I don't doubt there were a few people that hit 100% but I'm thinking that most were pretty far off. Also I was wondering how I would do in...

Abita Purple Haze...that stuff makes me want to yammy. The bar my friend worked at had two kegs and were only able to sell about half of 1 to the local sorority girls before finally giving up on it. My friend took the half key and the other full keg home and we tried to drink it but couldn't...

Is using a stove out of the question? You may not be able to do a full 5 gallon boil on the stove, assuming the pot could handle that volume, but doing 3 to 4 gallons and then mixing with preboiled water would certainly work for the time being.

Got tickets for my girlfriend and me the other day. The whole Charlotte Beer Club is going to see it with pre and post get togethers at The Flying Saucer. I may be taking the next day off from work :mug:

There's a post around here somewhere about someone putting together a Chocolate Peanut Butter Stout and using dry peanut butter...Bell Plantation, Inc. - PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter - Chocolate PB2 I believe that had some success with it but had to use quite a bit. Do some searching and you...

My LHBS has this kit on special during March so I was thinking about trying it out. It's not a style I've had before but after doing some reading I'm intrigued. Any opinions on the kit specifically or the style generally?

That is scary as hell, but I like it. Maybe just print it on a plain white label that goes all the way around the bottle.

Great label! I was thinking of something similar background wise using my former pipe band's tartan and perhaps naming it after them for a future Scottish Ale.

I've been looking at all the great work here and decided to give it a shot myself. I hadn't used GIMP all that much before so I took me a few days to put this together, along with a lot of Googling. Since I'm an IT guy and not an artist comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

More podcasts to add to my collection, thanks! (And why doesn't Firefox think that podcast can be made plural by adding an S to the end? Stupid red squiggly line.)

I used the threaded PVC elbow idea in my bottling last night and it worked great. The elbow was a bit too long so I did have to hacksaw off about a 1/4 inch but other than that no problems. I have a question for anyone who cares to give their opinion on method. To sanitize my bottles I used...

I used this kit as my first brew as well and had the same question. I just eyeballed half the package and added it to the boil. Thinking about it now I probably would have gone for the whole thing hoping to give it a denser feel.

I pulled a sample for gravity testing last night and I'm currently at 1.021 which to me seems a little high for 11 days of fermentation, but I'm new at this so what the heck do I know. I'll take samples over the next few days to see if I see any drop. Taste wise I think it's pretty good. I...