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I've done this a few times. It worked fine. You can also store some of the yeast in a sanitized container in the refrigerator for a short while as well, if you're not planning to rack the old beer and brew new at the same time.

The difference being that the guy who owns nissan.com is actually named Uzi Nissan, and he was originally using that domain as a public face for his business. In this case, the OP just grabbed that handle for funsies. I say, like the others do, that you agree to give it to them in exchange...

Try it. My guess is that it will come out just fine. Wash the herbs you add first, but don't douse them in any sort of noxious chemical.

I'd replace "that fell into the dark abyss" with "that crossed the event horizon." Also, use a different typeface for the text, so it stands out better.

Why not just call them and ask? My guess would be no, they'd want you buy sanke kegs full of their beer. If you're buying commercial beer anyway, why not just get the proper fitting for your kegerator setup and do it the easy way?

I've done it with success, where I moved one batch to secondary and brewed a second immediately thereafter. Both batches were of the same style, though. You obviously can't do this if you need a different yeast strain for the second batch.

Curious: Why use an Arduino Mega and not a regular arduino? Just what you had on hand? Really neat, though. I used a fridge with some bad control parts for my arduino-controlled fermentation chamber/kegerator, which was a lot simpler to implement.

Lock the fridge and disconnect the tap from the keg inside. If they have access to the fridge, all they'd have to do is get a party tap and stick it on the keg if they were really curious, even if you did install locks on the tap handles. Regardless, I think the answer here is to let them...

I like the guest tap idea. Holy crap, though, six ten-gallon batches at a time? Do you have tons of totally wicked parties or something? Sixty gallons would last me an awfully long time with only me drinking it.

If you used steeping grains, you'd have done that part prior to the boil.

Surely not. That's about what it costs at grocery stores here in Texas.

Yeah, but then the oil leaks into your basement. :( Seriously, though, you hit the bedrock in my back yard if you dig more than about 3 feet.

Man, that is wicked cool. I wish we could have basements here in Texas, so I wouldn't have to sacrifice my garage for a workspace like this.

Dunno. It looked a lot like Corona, with a clear bottle. I had it in this little restaurant in Clute while I was there for field work. The food at the restaurant was awesome, but all they had to drink were BMC and Landshark. :(

Really? I didn't think it was stellar, but I didn't think that was terrible, either. The worst beer I can remember was something called Landshark. It tasted like a BMC american lager, except awful.

There may be a way to accomplish that, but there's actually a technique called freeze distilling that is used to actually increase the alcohol concentration that works the same way. I think the trouble you'd end up having is that some or all of the non-water components would go with the...

Same. It doesn't seem terribly useful, unless there's a layer of the software that sends the person a bill for the beer they took or something. As something installed in the Android Developer Kit offices at the Googleplex, though, that would be pretty cool.

Or, if your wife likes soda, just offer to make her some, but... Oh, shoot, we don't have a keg to put it in... :(

I was going to suggest this. Humor him the first time, and keep the bottles in the garage. Later, show him that they haven't exploded. Also, put them in a big rubbermaid bin just in case. You CAN get bottle bombs if you screw something up, and while they probably won't kill you, it is a...

If I don't count the cost of my equipment, I think brewing my own beer actually does end up being cheaper than buying the sort of beer I like to drink. I make 3 gallon batches, which works out to approximately 30 bottles' worth. The usual cost for this is approximately $25, as I recall. If...