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  1. brbecker87

    Alternative Cooling Methods

    I haven't tried that shower head idea, but my wife has already warned me that I'm not to have a hose running through the house, especially since we have new carpet...
  2. brbecker87

    Alternative Cooling Methods

    Thanks for all the help guys. I can't remember who said it, but they mentioned that a March pump wouldn't work so well. I was thinking that if I buy a march pump to run the water through IC for now (with the intention of buying a plate chiller eventually?), but I get the impression that it...
  3. brbecker87

    Alternative Cooling Methods

    I checked the connections for the washer and water heater and it looks like a no go. Plus I don't want to mess with any of it (landlord is a police chief). How well does the 1/6 HP work with the 50' coil? And how much did it cost? after thinking about it you might be right about prechiller...
  4. brbecker87

    Alternative Cooling Methods

    So here's my situation. I recently moved into a new apartment, and much to my dismay, there is no exterior faucet to connect a hose to, nor is the kitchen sink amenable to connecting the hose. I have two copper chillers, so I thought that setting up a bucket with ice water for prechiller and...
  5. brbecker87

    IPA Hopping Schedule

    Okay, so a bunch of brewing friends are going to experiment and make a version of Palmer's Victory and Chaos IPA. The original idea was to keep everything the same with the exception of hop schedule. That's since gone out the window. However I still want to ask about how to best add the hops I...
  6. brbecker87

    Two Rooks Brewery logo

    I'm sitting here looking over the label, thinking that I should try to find some kind of critique, or something negative to tell you to work on, but I can't find a thing. Love the logo, love the bird and the chess piece. Really like the beer names too. Great job.
  7. brbecker87

    Longhop IPA Label

    Great label! Like the logo, love the transparent hops in the background, gives it a good texture. Love the inclusion of the brewing stats and dates. The only thing (not really) negative I can say is that maybe using one font would be better, or at least find a font other than papyrus (it's sad...
  8. brbecker87

    Marxist Kolsch - new label

    First of all +1 to DrDirt. As for the beer label, I really like it. Makes me think of "1984" (wish I could remember what they called the beer in the book). Looks good. Love the ABV, and the quote.
  9. brbecker87

    Becker Brau Logo

    So here's Becker Brau's logo. We are two American brothers, with a German heritage (that we like to exagerate). So the logo has colors of the German flag, and the yellow border is supposed to have the texture of the Bavarian flag (but for some reason this copy doesn't, and I'm too lazy to find...
  10. brbecker87

    Water pump and ice water to chill

    Thanks for the info. I thought this was probably fairly common practice. Sadly, said pump was thrown away last week without me knowing. So I should find a pump that does about 200gpm (according to Azscoob)? Any problems with pressure on the IC? On mine the inlet and outlet hoses are only held on...
  11. brbecker87

    Possible mistake?

    Thanks for the help guys. It's been sitting there for a few days now. Foamed up with a lot of Krausen the first day and it's just about gone now. I'm gonna let it in there a bit to clarify and such.
  12. brbecker87

    Possible mistake?

    ok good. I was worried about the bottle bombs and thought it best to air on the side of caution. Besides adding corn sugar will only add alcohol to the beer anyway (which was part of the point of it being an imperial), right? Any idea how much? and yes I have a hydrometer, but had no FG quotes...
  13. brbecker87

    Water pump and ice water to chill

    I had an idea the other day and wanted to run it by you guys to see how feasible it would be. I have an old outdoor water fountain pump that you submerge in a pond to pump water into a fountain. I was wondering if it would theoretically be possible to submerge the pump in a bucket of ice water...
  14. brbecker87

    Possible mistake?

    Okay, so I had a wonderful day in which to work on nothing but brewing/bottling beer. I bottled up a batch of Red Ale that I had sitting in fermentor. Then I proceeded to get things ready to bottle my Imperial Blonde Ale. I boiled up the water and added 5 oz of corn sugar, cooled it down, added...
  15. brbecker87

    Building a Mash Tun

    First of all, I'm sure that the information is all available somewhere on this forum, but I've spent over an hour searching and couldn't get all of my questions answered. I am planning on jumping up to AG soon. The first piece of equipment I want to get/make is the Mash Tun, but I have a few...
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