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I have diced fresh pumpkin and baked it till soft then add to the mash. It makes a great ale. Bruce

I play alot of softball. My favorite league is an unlimited arc league. I also have a handmade soap business that I have alot of fun with and sell beer soaps made with my homebrew. Bruce

I have never been much of a fan of this brewery. The beer is not of the quality of other microbrews. Years ago I thought I was tasting the same hops in 5 of thier 7 beers. The 7 that came with the sampler anyway. Bruce

I recived a tour of a micro brewery some time ago. Thier system is a 7 barrel system and he was brewing 1 batch each of the 5 work days of the week. They only had 3 conicals that I saw and I asked him what he did with his beer since 3 days is not enough time in a fermenter. He told me 3 days...

I posted my worst a few pages back but a friend of mine brewed a spruce tip beer of some kind and he said it tasted like he used his lawn mower bag for a fermenter. Bruce

I got 7 years out of my first one before I broke it. I have about 1 year on it's replacement. +1=145. Bruce

I make a potato pale ale often and it turns out just excellent. Very very good. Last batch was 1 pound of russets to one gallon of beer. I made a root beer beer once as a request of my daughter, it did not turn out very good. Could not get it sweet enough. She tried some with a scoop of ice...

And welcome from another MI brewer. Bruce

Welcome. And I thought Holland was the dutch capital for MI. I grew up in Holland and now live in GR, just a few miles north of you. Have you checked out Siciliano's for your supplies? They are top notch. Bruce

Has anyone ever used one of these? I purchased one of these and am not happy with it at all. I bought a mini keg of beer to use it on and so I could reuse the empty. The first one the 16g CO2 would leak out within 5 minutes. I returned it to the store and they gave me another one with some...

My worst beer was about 4 years ago. My daughter asked me to make a root beer flavored beer. So I used a bottle of root beer extract, used to make 4 gallons of root beer. I knew getting it sweet enough would be hard since the yeast would want to eat the sugars. I used lots of carmelized...

I brewed 5 gal. of a raspberry cream ale and bottled 10 gal of a potatoe pale ale. Bruce

In Michigan those New Castle mini kegs are not to hard to find. I just finished one about 2 weeks ago. Bruce

My first thought was wow that is so little sugar. But once I did the math I see that it is not. For 5 gal. I use 3/4 cup of sugar. AT the rate of 1.5 Tablespoon per mini keg X4 to equal 5 gal. that comes out to 3/8 cup which is 50% and I had read go 60% so that is very close. Well I did them...