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For reasons out of my control, I ran out of all homebrew and won't have anymore for 4 weeks at least. Having said that, I bought a 1/4 sanke keg of commercial brew and had to lop off my lines to fit my sanke tap on the lines. My co2 distribution thingy has an extra connection I tapped onto...

I'm posting for no good reason other than I started with a dogfish 90, then moved onto a Sierra Pale, then a oh crap i forget what it is.. something in the kegerator. Onto dinner and. blah blah blah.. now crap I'm drinking wine. Who knew. I'm happy there is a place for me to blah blah blah.

I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but I was wondering what the real consensus was?

I seem to have a CO2 leak in my kegerator. I have a 3 way manifold and a single stage regulator. I ususally keep two kegs on tap at all times. However, I go through CO2 like crazy. I'm lucky if a bottle lasts me 2-3 kegs. The guy at the gas supply store suggested spraying windex on the...

Anybody here a plurker? http://plurk.com/redeemByURL?from_uid=43090&check=763086956&s=1 *yawn*

I have 5.5lbs of 'old' light LME extract. Lot of 2 row grain (have crankenstien will crank). More cascade than I know what to do with (pellets). 1 oz challenger .5 oz styrian goldings 1lb Crystal 10L 1lbs Vienna Malt edit: forgot to mention. only viable yeast is nottingham. I have some out of...

This is going to sound silly. I made a batch of mead last march, then about august I moved it to a secondary to age a bit. It wound up in the back of the closet, and I COMPLETELY forgot about it until last week when I discovered it. It doesn't look too bad, but there may be some moldy...

Okay, so as part of my ongoing drive to start doing AG I put together my setup to grind my own grains. I bought a crankenstein and mounted it today. The instructions said run a couple of pounds of grain through it to clean the rollers. I was going to do a brew today (partial mash) and figured...

Future AG rig parts. I plan on motorizing it with gokart parts so I can drive it. I already have the axles, engine, etc. Heh heh heh. Pointless. I know. Oops, how'd that last photo get in there?!? You're lucky I didn't link the picture of the stitches on my nads. :) dale

My wife whipped this out quick for me (fwiw, my name is Dale, hence the d'ale). I'm still trying to get her to do some more labelley type thing for me that my lame self can just sorta fill in the blank. dale

I've been slowly working my way towards building an AG setup, and one of my newly acquired fun parts is a Therminator. I have been using pelletized hops up to this point. I have concerns about these, and other junk in my wort that may clog the chiller. I tenatively plan on pumping (already...

I love beer as much as the next guy.. well, probably more. I have kids. I don't want more kids. At some point along the way I decided I'd get snipped. I wouldn't say that I had any ulterior motives from doing this, and really - it probably wasn't necessary. I have talked to several guys...

Since I have found HBT I have moved it to the top of my forum browsing list in my bookmarks. I find myself visiting and reading every single thread that has any new content... I wonder if I may need professional help. I have three carboys in the closet, 2 in fermenters, 1 in a secondary (as...

That other beer forum, the one that has colors that burns your eyes - especially after having 6, 8, 10 or whatever bottles... what's up with that? i'm still seeing red spots... dale

Perhaps the answer is obvious, but I've been fooled before. I am considering moving from 5 gallon batches to 10 gallon batches (mini-mash/extract). Can I just double all the ingredients or does that not work like I think it should? dale

I ordered a AHS British Pale Ale kit yesterday (mini-mash). I have done this one before and liked it pretty well. I have about a 1lbs of LME left over from a quadrupal I did a few months ago (starter for yeast) - think I could just toss the LME in the mix since it's just getting old in the...

Maybe this is common knowledge and I just missed that part of class, but what to do in the summer? I haven't been able to brew anything the last month since it's become warm and the bugs have become more prolific. My wife doesn't care for the brewery smell inside the house (I know.. I don't...

I love beer! Actually this is I think my third post. But I thought I'd say hey. I have been brewing for maybe a year now. I have done probably 7-8 batches of different varieties. Right now I have a golden that's been uhm conditioning in the secondary for a bit too long. It's too warm...

I am very much a n00b when it comes to brewing. I have only done maybe 7-8 batches total during the last year. My most recent batch has been in the secondary for uhm maybe a month? How long is too long in the secondary? I haven't really been paying much attention to it. I also don't recall...