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BeerAlchemy and mash volume printouts available by request! Water: Used un-adjusted Poland Sprinds water. Their water is perfect for low-SRM beers and is remarkable close to Pilsner water: mineral and pH wise I thought it would be perfect without having to play with it at all. Mash: 7#...

I'm typing up this here post today for two reasons: first and foremost I wanted to thank all the good folks here that helped inform and feed my homebrewing "habit" years back when I had all 6 carboys bubbling away! I got a lot of silly questions answered here, and came in touch with a lot of...

Man, this has been a long week. First week at new job (misc stress), tripled commute time (sucks, but worth the $), worked yesterday at the bar, was too tired to do anything last night and ended up konked at 9:30. I was going through HBT withdrawal (don’t want to do too much internet surfing...

So my 11 year old lab/shepard/border collie (!) mix has been acting sick for a few weeks now. She's been eating on-and-off, drinking a lot, and peeing all the time. She hadn't had any in-house accidents in a looong, loong time but it has been happening 2-3 times a week in the last few weeks. All...

...Not dyslexia exactly, but does anyone else read different things from HBT users intended screen names? examples: banjopicker16 = Ban Jo Picker unclesamskid = Unclean Skid carpe3dm = Carpe 3’em GABrewboy = Gay Brew Boy olllllo = who else actually pronounces it OLO when reading it...

I've been slowly building up the guitar collection over the last 5-6 years and I'm in the position to make another 'investment', so I'm lookng for some input from fellow guitar players/collectors to decide which way to go next. I'm a Fender guy at heart, so I'd like to possibly branch out the...

Random question of the day. A fellow I'm working with at my 2-week-from-now new job's name is Choy Ng. Any insight into the correct pronunciation of that name? Is is "Eng", or "Mhn"???? I am pretty sure it's Chinese or Cantonese, but I am honestly now sure. Curiosity abounds!!!

Well, I'm pulling a Cheese. Tonight I'll be drafting up a two week notice letter to my employer, brining an end to my 8 year stint drawing prisons, college dorms and police stations on lower State Street. The short story: Three years ago, 28 employee architectural firm, $150+ million in...

Buy up all the Magic Hat Blind Faith you can find. It is going away. depression. <dumps paper-bag ides out on ground for homies>

I'm putting together a fantasy baseball league on sportsline.com and am looking to see if anyone is interested. It's a free league so the stats/setup/blah blah is not fully controllable, but it is going to be 10 teams, head-to-head, live draft (Sunday March 18), both AL/NL player pool. PM me...

Magic Hat Mardi Gras weekend is coming up Feb 17-18 in Burlington, VT. Me, SWMBO and a few buddies just made the hotel reservation, any HBT'rs going to be attending?

Just last night I came to the striking realization that in 6 years of brewing, I have NEVER, not once, made an IPA. Not by plan, either, it just happened that way...somehow. I am definitely no a fan of super-super-hop beers but I am still amazed that this never occured to me. As a result...

Question that I haven't found much feedback on through some of the DIY threads - I've always thought that "burying" a commercial fridge (Sanyo 4912 in this case) in a kitchen island is a bad idea due to a lack of air circulation which would cause a compressor blow-out. Does anyone have any...

For those of us w/o the 'speaking', two-legged pets in a similar thread (though I supposed you parent's can get involed, too ;) ) what are names of you dogs, past, present and future? Right now I've got SWMBO's 11 year old retriever/shep mix which she named Nala many years before I met her...

I have a 1000mL starter chugging away with White Labs WLP800 Pilsner Lager - going to be doing the wort for an AG Bohemian Pilsner (subject of other thread....maybe should have put this there!) tomorrow. Here's the question (posed by a brewing friend with no lager experience) that I had no good...

First off, I love the new Cooking & Pairing forum. I do tons of beer cooking....and I can't wait to try some other peope's stuff. This is a variation of something I once saw on TV. I was too drunk to remember the actualy recipe so this is my version: 2 tablespoons butter Salt & Pepper 2...

A guy who I do a bunch of side-work for just handed me a check I've been beating him up for for weeks now. In the "Memo" portion of the check, he wrote "For Deposit Only". Does anyone know what this means? I've had trouble with this guy bouncing checks on me before and I'm not sure if this...

I'm just getting a good chuckle out of this: New Jersey sniffed out as source of stench NEW YORK (AP) -- The gas-like odor that hung over Manhattan's streets was gone Tuesday, but city officials were still trying to pinpoint its source -- and eyeing New Jersey. Charles Sturcken, a...

Searching the forum for a general discussion of Braggot hasn't yielded a ton of well-consolidated info, so I figured I'd create a new post and cross my fingers that someone doesn't dig up something I missed. :) I've been trying to have a few "side" beers/meads going at all times and am...

Any thoughts, predictions or manifestos for this weekend's slate of playoff games? The only game I'm terribly confident in picking is Seattle over Dallas. Romo's got nothing - Dallas has fallen apart. Parcells is probably doing his classic look-for-another-job-while-in-the-playoff-race move...