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  1. kirkosaurus

    HomebrewSupply Recipe Giveaway

    Imperial IPA - All-Grain Recipe Kit, please
  2. kirkosaurus

    Heady Topper Clone (BYO)

    I brewed the BYO Oct. 2013 version (with the 60 min. Magnum addition) earlier this year and it was awesome. Since I couldn't get any Conan yeast I used 70% WLP-001 and 30% Lallemand 71B wine yeast to get some of that fruity character that Conan has. Will be brewing this again soon.
  3. kirkosaurus

    The Brew Stand Incredible Giveaway

    I'll take one please. :)
  4. kirkosaurus

    Jamil's Chocolate Hazelnut Porter

    Just throw them in the primary. I would soak in vodka first. Made the mistake of not doing so before and had an infected beer.
  5. kirkosaurus

    Can you make your own orange peel from fresh oranges?

    He must work for Monsanto.
  6. kirkosaurus

    Already getting large hop cones

    Started seeing cones a couple of weeks ago on my Nuggets and they are getting pretty big already. Anyone else get cones this big this early in the year? If so do you harvest early? It's just the beginning of June and I don't see these going until the usual harvest time around September.
  7. kirkosaurus

    Getting higher brew house efficiency

    Batch sparge as slow as you can. I found my efficiency went up when my sparge was at a trickle.
  8. kirkosaurus

    Using bottling bucket as fermenter

    I recently started doing this. Much easier to transfer into a keg than trying to siphon. The trick is to barely open the spigot when draining. It takes awhile to drain it into the keg but with the beer moving slow you don't disturb the trub and none goes into the keg. Cold crashing before...
  9. kirkosaurus

    How long will star san last?

    If you have hard water your starsan solution will become cloudy as soon as you add the starsan so this is no barometer of whether it is good or not.
  10. kirkosaurus

    looking for an Agave/Tequila mead and a lemon/lime citrus mead.

    Just don't use Mad Hava brand agave nectar. It has preservatives in it and will not ferment! Had to throw out a batch of Tequila APA because not only was it too sweet but it would not carbonate in the bottle after priming with the same agave nectar.
  11. kirkosaurus

    Suggested hop pairings for Galaxy and Mosaic?

    Try Shlafley's Tasmanian IPA. All Galaxy hops and it is outstanding.
  12. kirkosaurus

    "upgrading" to star san

    In concentrated form right out of the bottle it will definitely ruin a counter top. I got some on a painted surface one time and it stained it pretty bad. You just have to be careful with it until you mix it.
  13. kirkosaurus

    Magnum as an "all around" bittering hop

    Sierra Nevada uses Magnum for bittering, flavor and aroma hops in their Torpedo IPA. I'd say it's a good all around hop for all of those.
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