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Time to dig out the Gordon Lightfoot album and pour yourself one of these in memory of the 29 men lost on this day in 1975

I would take your expensive beer and a fully stocked family mart with chu-his down the street any day over my favorite liquor store here :mug:

Looking at this for my next 10 gallon batch - just one question: is Gordon Lightfoot's ballad on repeat mandatory during the brew? I sure hope so...

What do you currently use for a mash tun? Do you mash inside or out? I see you are in Chicago, so this can make a big difference in choice. My last batch was brewed in ambient temps of -5 F, and I mashed inside using a converted cooler. I would like to move to a keg MLT when I get a pump...

I would focus on getting that number to be consistent across batches before worrying about how high you can get it. An extra pound of 2 row costs around a dollar, and that will make up for a lower efficiency, but you need to know going in what your efficiency is so you can plan the correct...

Congrats. It has been fun brewing every other week for the last couple months, hopefully I can get back to a semi regular schedule fairly quickly, who knows.

Ha, she is due in 2 weeks, and it has been conditioning for 3 weeks so far.

20 feet seems to work fine for my chiller, I stir constantly and it cools the wort in under 10 minutes when the tap water is cold. Of course, 50 feet is better

Keep in mind, a pound or two of 2 row is around $1.50-$2.00 if you are buying 50 pound sacks, so investing in additional equipment just to up your efficiency a bit would take many many batches to pay off. Instead, I would take detailed notes of your exact process and try to tweak it with your...

The one in the video is a ton of coils, when I use mine that has maybe only 10 coils or so, the water goes in at ~40 degrees and comes out scalding hot, so it seems to me that it is big enough to do the job. As long as I stir the wort while chilling, I can get the 5 gallons cooled in around 8...

Get a chiller or make your own, although its not that much cheaper to make your own with the price of copper tubing these days. Start asking for kegging equipment now for gifts from family, the whole kits are spendy but you can piece it out into $50 and under parts, which is right at the...

I bottled for a couple years, and like most people, my brewing interest started to wane as I thought about sanitizing and bottling again. Mostly, going to kegs turns homebrewing from a "novelty" thing you do once in a while to something you can do often enough so that you are only drinking...

That is a great suggestion, thanks... Although I have always assumed that the small amount of fermentation that happens in the bottles before capping would be enough to purge the air out of the head space of the bottles, but I suppose you would need to let them sit for an hour or two to make...

Yes the towel is for spillage, but I didn't have much this time. Before I started kegging, I used a long tube with the bottle filler on the end so I could move the filler from bottle to bottle without having to hold up every bottle and this way resulted in almost no spillage, but that tube was...

Thanks for all the kind words. It took me around an hour and a half maybe a little less, but you don't see the cleanup in the video. I made the video using an iphone 4 and the ReelMoments app. The settings were 1 photo every 5 seconds and then stitched at 15 FPS. The intro was set to take...

Thanks, I just used the youtube audio swap feature and there is a ukulele track on there.

(also posted in bottling forum) Last night I bottled a belgian tripel that I brewed for my pregnant wife. Hopefully it will be ready to drink when she is. I haven't bottled in a couple years, so I thought I would make a film of it.

Yeah for sure, I have a beer gun as well that I usually use for bottling a couple 'archive' bottles off the kegs, but that is not much faster.

Last night I bottled a belgian tripel that I brewed for my pregnant wife. Hopefully it will be ready to drink when she is. I haven't bottled in a couple years, so I thought I would make a film of it.

Even if you do have coils in the shelves, some older models had a small semi-rigid hose that connected the shelves to the body to transmit the coolant, and can be carefully moved out of the way.