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If you haven't tried this one then I'd highly recommend it. I followed her recipe and can only say :mug:

My neighbor has a motor that came out of an ice flaker machine. This thing has serious gear reduction and good torque. I measured the rpms and now I'm wondering if it is too slow; 12 rpms. Anyone think that's too slow to be useful in a keggle that I use as a mashtun? He has a second motor that I...

Out running one morning with the Vizsla and Wiem I saw a huge prickly pear cactus. I went back after work with tongs and a bag. I collected a lot of very ripe prickly pear fruit. Carefully, I removed the skin and juiced the remaining fruit. I've got about 5 cups of fruit. A friend told me that...

It's a good day; about 1/2 of the rhizomes I ordered from www.thymegarden.com have broken through the soil so I guess I better get the rest of the garden done and the twine strung. This is my first attempt at hops in central TX but based on Edwort's success and what Chris Colby spoke about on...

I've read a number of different techniques concerning harvesting yeast from a conical but I believe most of those were ale yeasts. My question concerns harvesting lager yeasts and what others have found to be the best method. I want to harvest the most viable, robust yeast population and I'm not...

I found a guy here in Austin that has two 2.5 gallon kegs but I reckon they are 3 gallons. He's asking $65.00 each for the small ones and $55.00 each for the 5 gallon. I was interested in the 5 gallon kegs until he emailed me his price. If anyone is interested in the 2.5 or 3 gallon ones I'll...

Long story short, I'm now the owner of an ancient piece of molecular biology equipment. It is a Perkin Elmer Cetus thermal cycler or PCR machine. What it might allow one to do, is use it as a glycol recirculation system. It was designed to circulate polyethylyne glycol through an aluminum plate...

Took SWMBO to Estes Park, CO for vacation and at the Estes Park Brewery they had a seasonal Pumpkin Ale on Tap; SWMBO loved it so I decided to brew one. I peeled, cubed and roasted 3.5# of pumpking and then mashed it with a big spoon and dumped it into the mash tun. I put in 1/2 my grain bill...

Is there a reason I can't use refrigeration copper tubing instead of type L, M, or K? I'm a little confused and I was heading to the store today because I'd like to complete the conversion of my SABCO brewmagic from a RIMS to a HERMS. Anyone know the answer? Thanks in advance.

I need to insulate my mash tun and was thinking of a hot water heater jacket. Does anyone have suggestions on something better or how to best insulate a mash tun that is a 15.5 keg on a propane burner. I have a RIMS so the burner isn't on too often but I lose so much heat and it just isn't very...

Here is my keg conversion fermenter with racking arm assembly. A friend at work pick up 3 kegs for me out of someone's trash; can't beat free. These were beat up pretty good but not so much to be used a kettles and a cheap fermenter. I posted and gave two away to a fellow homebrewer who lives...

First off, the water if Central TX is pretty insane with tons and tons of carbonate and the pH is regularly in the 9.0-9.3 range but what the troublesome part is the chloramine that is added. I'd like to have my filter near my brew stand on brew day and not have to carry water from inside...

There are way too many bright people on the forum for me not to ask. I'd love to buy one of Yuri's fermenters but I bet the line is standing room only and I'm not sure how many he is making. So, I was thinking of trying to convert a 15.5 gallon keg I picked up at a garage sale into a fermenter...

Does anyone own a Barley Crusher from BC Products Enterprises? It seems like a pretty good deal and my wife has been asking me what she might get me for Christmas this year. The rollers are a little smaller than others that I've been reading about but do any of you know if that really makes a...

I thought that it might be nice to have a Hoff-Stevens keg or any original style keg with a bung on the side. The reason is so that I could keg for friends' parties and then they supply their own tap and drink to their hearts content and just return the keg and I kindly refill it for them with...

Any ideas of what I can add or delete to turn out a better stout. I was thinking of substituting corn syrup for the malto-dextrin hoping to add a bit of crispness to the stout. Previously I used Pale Crystal 40L in the stout but it was missing something so maybe the Crystal 60L will be it...

I came across a serious filter that was about to be tossed in the construction trash at work and I couldn't pass it up; way too much stainless going into the dumpster is bad. A construction worker found it in a box of "trash" in a corner of the warehouse and was hauling it away, so I went...

I was at the Austin Homebrew yesterday and noticed they had Wyeast Pacman yeast from Rogue Brewery available. On an impulse I bought some but I've never brewed with this yeast and was wondering what I can expect. Rogue's John Maier's quote doesn't really tell one anything that we don't already...

I'm setting up and testing whether I'll be able to use my shirron chiller with gravity feed this afternoon and if so I'd like to brew soon. Besides the slow flow rate does anyone have some advice on using this thing. I was concerned about clogging between the plates so I thought that a stainless...

So I'm acquiring a 2nd refrigerator and thought the garage would be a perfect place to place it. I live in Austin,TX where for about 4 sometimes 5 months of temperatures in the mid-high 90's with 100s for a month or two not out of the question. I understand the basics of refrigeration but does...