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I put together my DIY STC-100 control box this weekend to use with a True GDM-12 merchandiser. With the GDM turned all the way up and the STC set at 4.5C, 2 degree variance and 3 minute compressor delay the unit cycles on for 45 seconds every 6 minutes. I looked up recommended CPH and it sounds...

My freezer door got left open and 2.5 gallons of Blackberry juice partially thawed. I don't want to refreeze it so I thought I would use it as an excuse to make my first mead. I used fresh picked blackberries and cooked them down with a little water in the pan. Then I ran them through a fine...

Last year I got an acetobacter infection in a batch of stout and didn't catch it before I bottled. I reused the yeast for a batch of ESB and when I went to bottle it was apparent there was a problem. Fast Forward a year to another batch of stout... Thursday I pitched an active Wyeast 1098 into...

When I popped open the lid to my ferm bucket I was surprised to meet the smell of vinegar. Odd fermentation smells are not foreign to me but this one concerns me. I took a sample while racking it to my keg and there is some cider/vinegar followed by a little astringency. The nose from the keg...

Saturday 11/26 I brewed 10 gallons of Warthog Cream Ale from BYO's 150 clones. 5 gallons I pitched Wyeast 1098 and the other 5 gallons I pitched Wyeast 1025. By Wednesday or Thursday I noticed the 1025 batch starting to clear so I took a gravity reading. It was ~1.015. The fine print: AG...

I am confident I have a pretty good grasp on the English language. My neighbor, however, does not seem to understand the words coming out of my mouth. 3 weeks ago he waltzed up my driveway salivating at the thought that my IC was a coil for distilling. No pal, sorry to disappoint, its just my...

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As I sample a bottle of barleywine from my first PG (2 months and needs more time) I am thinking about my next PG batch which will be next weekend. The Plan: 5 gal 1.085ish IIPA 5 gal 1.050ish Dark Wheat The Mash (45 min) 12lb 2 Row 12lb MO 1lb Crystal 40 No Neck IIPA OG 1.085...

I have been brewing 10 gal at a time for about 4 batches. While it has been nice to quickly build up my stock of favorite styles, it doesn't help much with variety even though I have been playing with different yeasts. After my last batch I started thinking about how to split a ten gallon batch...

Imagine if you will a combination of Bigfoot, Celebration, and Pale Ale. 3 excellent examples of beer in one bottle? Sign me up! Then imagine somebody punk'd the entire batch with Oak. I'm going to start by saying there is is one snowballs chance in hell that someone along the line filled my...

I plan to mash for ten gallons then split the batch to make a pale ale and a stout. My grist for the mash will likely be 2 Row/MO for a gravity of ~1.050 I have not been able to find any information on steeping grains in the wort preboil. All recipes/conversations talk about water volume and...

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with the Thomas Kemper name beyond the soda, but Andy Thomas and Will kemper were among the beginnings of Northwest micros. Since then Will has been around the country and the world teaching and running his own operations. Now he has Chuckanut...

I wish to make a 2.5 gallon batch of Barleywine and a 5 gallon batch of Amber. My grain bill right now is 12lb 2 row 12lb MO 1lb Crystal 80 Do I mash as if it is a 7.5 gallon batch or a 10 or do I just mash at a certain thickness without regard to batch size? Does anyone have suggestions...

Washington that is... The Porterhouse in Mount Vernon and others are debuting a couple beers from the new Northsound Brewery from MV tonight. Also, they have Pliny on tap.

I sell restaurant equipment and we have a customer who is starting a Nano. He wants to bottle carb his beers and is looking for a way to dispense a measured amount of sugar at a time. Preferably this would hold a cup or two and funnel into the neck of the bottle. Does anyone have any tricks up...

So there I was at work trying to keep up with all the people that wanted answers from me when our warehouse guy, who was on the roof of the building, called down to tell me that it looks like there is a keg in a garbage can hid behind our building. Long story short I have a Coors keg currently...

My good friend asked me to be his best man. He couldn't find a good woman in the states so he moved to Sydney, AU. Does anyone have experience booking flights abroad? I am looking for the best way to find a deal on airfare with the least amount of hassle and to make sure we have everything...

I do like me a big hoppy beer from time to time and I thought I would try the recipe below for my first go using Beer Calculus for the math. I am currently limited to about 12lbs for the mash so will use the DME to boost the OG. I have found I like a solid but not overpowering bitterness and a...

I have about 10 AG batches completed so far. In my last 3 or 4 batches I have noticed a bitternesss that is very much like an oversteeped tea bag. My process: I use an unmodified 5 gal round cooler with a strainer bag and batch sparge. As a result my grain bill is at the most 12lbs. I fill...

So I gave a couple bottles to my BIL to tell me why it sucks. He called me and said it was amazing. The head was perfect, it was crystal clear, he loved the flavor and itwas definately a beer he would pay money for. WTF? At least I have someone to give it to so I don't have to drink it... 9...