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+1000. With the sealed top stoves the pot *MUST* touch the glass top or you will not get enough heat into the pot to boil it. A flat bottow sounds easy but check your pots with a straight edge and you'll find they're not very flat. Karp is right, a clad bottom is about the only way to ensure...

What about yeast choice? I thought "english" style yeast tend to showcase malt flavor better?

I haven't experimented with Notty enough to anwer questions about it's behavior. But if you're stout really leaves you wanting you could always backsweeten with lactose and call it a milk stout. 171 seems like a hot enough mash to me. Have you checked your themometer? Even if it's calibrated...

Thrice's label is nice. But I CANNOT read "cape". It needs to read the other way (left to right) like normal. Also there's a fairly easy way to duplicate your current logo. Take a photo with more contrast (less flash probably). Then you can put the photo as a background in your drawing...

Go for it!!!! I've been thinkg about growing my own too but have very little space. How much did you plant for your 1 pound yield? BTW Sunset (CA edition) did a cover story this month on local eating. They tried to grow their own barley for a homegrown beer. Apparently the had problems with...

I too dislike the paper texture in the second. But I think you did a great job of getting the text to appear on the scroll. I also like filter level better in the second one. Clearer but you can still see the watercolor filter. I also agree that you should move the grains to the left and right...

Looks somemore in this forum for illustrations. There's some great "airplane safety" style dircetions out there. I think it would really lighten the mood on your directions.

I recently brewed a variation on his Cherries in the Snow. Instead of using actual cherries I used 1 pint of pure sour cherry juice I got at the healfood section. Was/Is GREAT! Gotta admit that I can never seem to brew a recepie "by-the-book" I always end up with one substitution or another.

I feel a little trepidation about saying this (because it's another forum) but you simply MUST check out the Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter over on the Northerbrewer forum. It is HANDS DOWN one of the best beers I've ever made. That recepie is dead on perfect (if you have the willpower to let...

Logoing your fermenters. Great idea! Those look too big for a stamp though. How'd ya do it?

If you want a program close to Illustrator you want Inkscape. As covered above it is a vector drawing program. This is much more suite for drawing images from scratch and/or from basic shapes. That what it is designed to do. Photoshop and Gimp are image editing programs. You'll want to use...

the wax seal RULES!! maybe we could get a little tutorial or hint on how to make one like it?

I like the statement. Read it twice and LOL. I know this is hard but I think the text wrap should match the border raidus. Also again the inner and outer ovals should match radii. Try a border on your letters too so they'll pop out a little more.

Very Much like the recycle logo. I might have to steal it. It's one of my pet peeves when I don't get the bottles back. I'd get "big, fat" out of the description. We know that from the bold title. Work some other adjectives into it. How bout, voluptuous, huge, humongous, obese, gigantic, etc.

really cool label. I like how the trees curve with the label edge and the cherry tint in nice two. I also like how the whole label is doing doulble duty. Is it a forest/moon scene or the top of a cherry cake?? Really excellent.

Patience - it took me almost a year to find this out. Leaving longer in the bottle will lead to better tasting brews (most beer least 4 weeks. Big beers, strong tasting beers longer). DME - much better attenuation than with LME Partial Mash - learned from this site. Really opened up all the...

Your FG aren't bad but they could be better. I have had similar problems while doing extract batches. The first step, for me, was to move to Dry Malt Extract. I get much better attenuation with that. The second was partial mash. You can purposefully mash at low temps for a very fermentable wort...

They'll have taste. The thing is BMC don't have any taste. Sometimes HB will have taste you like, others maybe not. As others have said, making you own beer rocks! Not only are you sitting around drinking beer, YOU MADE IT! How cool is that? Really cool.

Dopple Bock for Lent. Make sure you start early enough to get some bottle aging time in before Feb.

Well I finally got around to a more beer related logo. As I said before I worked a bottle into it instead of a rocket taking off. I like it but wonder if the bottles too plain. Also have a "pocket label" or small tag (it's actually much smaller, think full logo for back of shirt and bottle cap...