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Keto as a life style works just fine. Have a friend who wasn't even doing it to lose weight and he's stuck with it for ~5 years now. Granted he doesn't drink or seemingly do anything remotely hedonistic anymore. Once you hit your target weight you just up your calorie count, get some more fats...

Took maybe 5 months. I didn't bother with keto strips or any of that, I just was anal about what I ate, and once I got going, fasting was super easy too.. As long as you have body fat for your body to burn, you're just never truly hungry. Keto strips can be super misleading from what I've...

Drinking on Keto will slow it down, because the time your liver would be spent burning fat it will burn alcohol instead, but alcohol carbs can't be stored or converted to fat, and your body is still going to burn fat it needs to live. As others have stated, let the sugars get eaten up and...

Grainfathers are New Zealand bru!

I did this exact thing for the first time last night (got a Grainfather on NBers recent sale). Just used my nomiku sous vide to heat the sparge water on the side so it was ready when it came time. Then just used a measuring cup to pour the sparge water over the mash as it needed it (Will...

Kinda like the brats my friend bought over the other day... Gummy Bear brats.... I love brats, and I can eat a giant bag of gummy bears in a sitting... but these things were GROSS.

Refractometers have a calculation that needs to be done for gravity once alcohol is into the equation because alcohol refracts light differently than sugars, refractometers were made with the intent on measuring strictly sugar levels in water, but people much smarter than me figured out the way...

I wouldn't use anything, like bj said, mineral oil is non drying.. and even though people use it on cutting boards you generally aren't boiling/heating cutting boards which would be the perfect enviroment for causing the oil to thin and leak back out. Rinse it off well when you're done using...

I'd probably stop messing with it so often and leave it be, see what it ends up at in a week or so and take it for what it is. More often you go digging in the wort the higher the chance you get an infection. Are you using a refractometer to get those measurements? If so your beer is sitting...

The O2 from the initial oxidization would be gone.. Only times you're going to add oxygen is if you're splashing too much when doing 2ndary fermentation or bottling. Once they're bottled and in the fridge not too much can go wrong with them.. If you're not gentle when transferring from...

I dislike hoppy beers as well, and have given several IPA's and their ilk a chance over the years and just can't get into them.. The one exception was a Brut IPA I had once I almost couldn't taste the hops.. so maybe there's hope there, unfortunately I cannot remember what brewery it was from...

Hello folks, Brewer from Minnesota here (been brewing for about year and a half now) Just finished my first Keezer build (with no shortage of finding posts on these forums) so figured I'd join the community and talk beer! Attached a picture of the work done.. Got a lot of post operation stuff...