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Obviously you are sensitive to others contradicting your "gospel". I will bow out and let you bask in your limelight Master Debater.

Unless of course you are growing oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) which will grow on anything cellulose and requires almost no other nutrients to produce fruiting bodies. I have grown them on a role of toilet paper before!

Mushrooms (mycelium) is not a mold, it is a fungus.

I hear you and you are right, there are more aspects to a good fermentation like a healthy krausen for instance. So far though my Schwarzbiers have turned out crisp and clean with only a two liter starter. Brewing a pilsner where there is no place to hide for off flavors may be a different...

I am with you, it blows my mind someone would recommend a gallon starter for five gallons of beer decanted or not. I have brewed half a dozen black lagers with two liter starters and the fermenter started bubbling within twelve hours every time Course the only lager yeast I have used so far is...

Wine fridge (with controller) for fermenting ales and lagers Chest freezer for lagering/storage Stir Plate for making starters

That was my understanding as well.

From what you are saying this is a HUGE jump in efficiency over the standard copper wort chiller! What I am not grasping however is from your second picture how you invert the smallest coil to fit within the medium coil?

Now wait, using high proof alcohols to extract herbal oils is a very common practice in this country to produce a "tincture" and can be purchased at any health food store without restrictions. I do not believe that using small quantities of alcohol to extract oils in this fashion is illegal.

I brewed this beer and it turned out great, very drinkable. I have to admit though that being new to brewing and wanting more to experiment rather then be true to style (which will surely gain some frowns), I bastardized this recipe a bit. First I lowered the IBU's some, I used Maris Otter in...

Quarters?

What about filling the bathtub with water and laying the keg down inside it?

I test spacecraft for a living.

Another container that works great for your cultures is Ball or Mason brand jelly jars. They have a widemouth opening like regular jars but are more squat and only a couple inches tall. They stack nicely and the jars give you a lot of surface area on the bottom for your agar yeast culture. When...

And at what point would you add these adjuncts typically, at the beginning of the mash or later in the process, or would you boil them separately?

I recently received a keg from who I suspect yours came from. The lip around the opening was pretty scarred up and the opening is distorted in that area and keeping the lid from sealing. I have not contacted the company yet and so I have no support story as yet to tell.

I see this available online for a reasonable price. How many 5 gal kegs can you store in this? Also have you tried fermenter buckets or carboys in it? Room for a 5# co2 tank?

Interesting. I also recently bought this refractometer. I would assume however that you could still use it to check if fermentation is complete, as the reading would stay consistent?

One thing I never considered when I began AG is that it IS an all day process where you are doing a lot of heavy lifting and carrying and if you have a bad back it can be hell for days afterwards.

In mushroom growing it is common to use Tyvek as a filter medium because it provides good two way gas exchange and can be autoclaved. It is secured on top of a flask for a liquid culture or placed over a mason jar and the ring screwed down over it for grain jars. The mailers that the post office...