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    You didn't think I'd do it, didja.

    In other news. It's kegged and chilling and the first smallish sip has me wishing I'd made more than a gallon. I only put one full-size clove and one medium one in the secondary, it's more of an aromatic than anything else, which is just what I wanted. It's garlic festival weekend, too! To...
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    You didn't think I'd do it, didja.

    "<i>Seriously dead chicken in a beer recipe???</i>" I have an older copy of the homebrew book, but yes, it has a recipe that calls for a whole, parboiled and crushed chicken. with sherry, raisins and mace (the herb) in a sack which is added to 10 gallons of ale in secondary. I don't know anyone...
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    You didn't think I'd do it, didja.

    Ooh, roasted garlic would just dissolve in secondary... ... could just put it in the boil... Anyway, I got the idea last year when I was on the porch, enjoying a brew and the wind shifted and came in off the garlic fields. It hit my nose about the same time the beer hit my tongue and I...
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    You didn't think I'd do it, didja.

    I live in Gilroy, so I suppose it was only a matter of time. I guess next I'll find out why I haven't seen anyone else do it, because I canNOT be the first one who thought about it... Besides,,, they put it in ice cream.... So, yes; I made a Citra Pale, and racked off a gallon... and...
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    Crazy water saving idea?

    I run the water out of the chiller into a sprinkler and just let it go on the lawn. Since I don't brew all that often and the lawn doesn't need watering all that often... Besides, this way, I have a built-in excuse to make another batch. "Geez, look. The lawn's getting wilty. Guess I'll have to...
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    Choosing a chest freezer for fementation.

    If it's solely for fermentation, the 'son of' chamber is a lot less $. Too, a keezer can be used as a fermentation cooler, but it can't do double duty; that is, it can only do one task at a time. (unless you want to serve beer at fermentation temperatures) Space considerations are a real...
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    Another FG question

    Not only is an airlock a very poor indicator of activity, remember how often you're not observing it directly. What seems like 5 days of no activity is just as possibly 5 days of no activity [I[that you saw[/I]. (unless it's an uncommon noisy airlock, it could well be bubbling now and again when...
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    Rebecca Black hates me :(

    They're just thinking about the planet. You know: global warming, CO2 emissions and all. Getting rid of a gasbag has got to help, no? Here's for thinking green. (myself, I don't wish the little twerp any active harm,,, but if space aliens took her (and her fans) out of this end of the galaxy...
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    Why is it always "lawnmower" beer?

    One and one is two, car and wrench (mower/scrubber/paintbrush...) is beer. Don't overcomplicate things, folks, it's basic math.
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    Not just stuck, WAY stuck

    I thought so, too.
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    Not just stuck, WAY stuck

    It's almost spot-on with my RO filter water. I was 'supposed' to steep at 170, for up to 30 minutes, but I took it to 150 for an hour, then to 170 for another 30 minutes. My thinking was; instead of just steeping some of the flavourings out of the grain, I'd try to get a reasonable...
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    Not just stuck, WAY stuck

    It was a full boil, I have an 8 gallon pot and burner. The proteins would have gravitated toward the bottom of the kettle, however, and I did use the last bit of that for the sample. Bad move on my part, I accept that. I get that, but adding the amylase should have reduced the unfermentables...
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    Not just stuck, WAY stuck

    "Have you recalibrated your hydrometer. " Well, no, I got another one, they agree on the SG now, which leaves me not knowing what to OG really was. I'm thinking suspended proteins in the wort threw off the OG reading. There were visible 'flakes' of stuff in the sample flask, but the reading...
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    Not just stuck, WAY stuck

    I've tried everything. I waited, I roused, I warmed, I repitched (with a 2L starter of champagne yeast, which I had aerated thoroughly) After none of that changed the SG as much as two points, I added some amylase. ... and that didn't do anything either. There it sits, at 1.030. If it had...
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    Using Amylase Enzyme (Beano?) to restart stuck fermentation

    ... but it's bound to happen. I quote: "The point is that if one buys a product that consistently is of poor quality, then the onus of blame is on that consumer for continuing to purchase that product. In my experience I have purchased iffy quality extract from vendors and simply stopped...
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    testing gravity in fermenter

    If it's in a bucket anyway, just sanitize your hydrometer and drop that in, read quick and you're on your way. Oh, wait, that means you have no sample to drink. ... nevermind.
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    More residue-in-carboy thread!

    What about going after the whatever-it-is with a scotchbrite pad? I would worry about scratching the glass but a) I have little to lose and b) I could only scrub with as much pressure as I could exert with the carboy brush. At this point, I'm rather certain that it is residue of some sort...
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    Super bitter beer

    I found the notes from my Pliny brew. I misunderestimated. Out of the box(bag) there were more than 15 ounces of pellet hops in my kit, just under 1/2 of which was for secondary. To that, one adds 1.5 ounces of whole Chinook, in for a full 90 minutes.
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    More residue-in-carboy thread!

    Acquired a couple of old carboys, which hadn't been cleaned very well by the previous user. (okay, one looked as if it hadn't been rinsed, but; for the price; I wasn't going to argue) A few days and some elbow grease later, two of them are fine but one has what almost looks like pitting at...
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    Super bitter beer

    Pliny is supposed to be exceeding bitter. It's sort of like Ruination, only without so much malt trying to compensate. IIRC, there's something like 11 ounces of hops in the kit. *raises hand* I'll try almost anything twice if it doesn't kill me the first time. I heard it said that many new...
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