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Hey All- I'm an experienced beer brewer and mead maker, but new to grape wines. My questions are as follows: Should I rehydrate the wine yeast that came with my kit? Should I be adding pure O2 at the beginning of my ferment? Should I continue to add oxygen up to a certain point (30-50%...

I haven't been properly drunk past midnight in a good long while. I wonder if I'll remember any of this ****-posting spree? Anyway- apologies in advance. Who wants to jump on the crap-train? Post random ****.

So I've got this extra 5 gallons of saison (ABV around 7, FG 1.004) sitting around that would go just great with some brett funk. Can I just pitch it right into the keg and let it do its thing for a few months? It's my understanding that the brett mainly eats fermentation byproducts, but does it...

Hi Guys, I can get grain delivered to my location in Miramar, pretty much anything you need as long as you can buy an entire sack of it, but I never see SD area group buys. Is there any interest?

Just an FYI- I've been an advocate of NOT bottling in anything other than bottles for a long time, but I had an interesting experience lately that made me want to remind everyone. We store our harvested yeast from the 3bbl fermenters in glass growlers, the standard screw top variety. Anyway...

... is a hell of a drug.

Or is the Jackrabbit Slim's scene in Pulp Fiction the finest bit of seduction filmography ever put to celluloid. No sex, no nudity, no cleavage, no body hair and no skin. Just fine, sexy, clean, dialogue. Could be drunk me, but that's a fine bit of talkin'.

My brother is my default Hip hop hookup, but I've been absolutely rocking out to "Hood Party" for the last month. Fat Tony's hook is classic, but Kool AD's verse is frakking game-changing. Also, Despot is ace on this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEB7qVcX48c&list If you dig Kool...

Hi water dudes- I'm looking at an RO system for my 3bbl brewery. I'd love to grab a bigass system for huge GPD and quick brewdays, but budget is always tight. What I'm thinking is that I can get a lower GPD (say, 100) system on the cheap and just let it run into my HLT the day or two...

I have 3 of these thermometers: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064OFNEO/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 Which I'd like to sell to someone local for pickup, but will consider shipping. They're brand new and have never been used, I just found out these also come with 6" probes and that's...

Title says it all: what's beer style you love, but haven't quite made the perfect example of yet? What's holding you back? I've made about a hundred ESBs and honestly I don't think I've liked one as much as the first extract batch I did, which was hardly what you'd call authentic.

Off to another fascinating trade show... Anyway, staying in what appears to be a bit of a black hole as far as craft beer goes. Conference is at the George Brown convention center in houston, and I'll be staying at 5190 Hidalgo St., some extended stay suites or another. Of course, my boss...

Hi Guys- I wanted to run an idea I had by you to see how dumb it is. I wanted to do a bar top with our brewery logo in it, but done in uncrushed malt (see my avatar). Black parts would be roasted barley/black patent/chocolate malt depending, and white part would be 2-row/pils. I'd then pour...

I just posted this in another (stagnant) thread, but I've done a few searches and seen a lot of people asking about our water here, but no hard data. I recently sent off a bottle to Ward for testing, but previously I've just been using the city water report (which is great- tons of detail) from...

Hi Guys- I'm interested in evaluating base malts (and boy are there a ton of them) to pick a sort of "house" pale malt. What's a good way to do this when evaluating malt? I'd like to end up with some drinkable beers at the end of all this, and not something too boring. I thought of...

Learning a hard, expensive lesson today. It's bad enough to have money stolen from you, but there's nothing worse than doing something dumb (like not getting something in writing, or trusting the wrong person) and then losing money that could have easily been saved with the most basic...

We're awesome! California ABC license submitted and we've got our poster for notice of intent to sell. TTB here we come! :rockin:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/nsd/for/3743426722.html Ball lock kegs for a great price. Looks like they had some chemicals in them but could probably be cleaned up for cheap. Still, chemicals make me nervous. BTW- NOT my ad. I've moving away from cornies and will let y'all know when...

Anybody have experience with the Tejass Monster burner (http://www.tejassmokers.com/castironburners.htm about 2/3 way down) or the 44 and 88 jet tip burners? I'm building a 3bbl system and am not thrilled about the recommendation to mount the jet burners 12-14 inches below the pots. Seems like...

Hey Guys- Putting together a 3bbl, direct fired LP system this week (like you do) and am still undecided on burners. I'm a big fan of the MONSTER burner over at Tejass Smokers (http://www.tejassmokers.com/castironburners.htm, about 2/3 of the way down), mostly because I know it works, but I'm...