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Yeah, we really didn't want florescent lighting and with the open trusses our options were a tad limited. This let the lighting be indirect and evenly spread. We have it wired such that we can shut off half of the strips (alternating trusses) at a time and the strip in the vent hood is on its...

We've been brewing for the better part of 10 years now and have perused through lots of HBT threads. Many an idea or answer was gleamed from here along with a lot of trial and error. We've also take lots of photos along the way but I've held off on posting them as our progress has been slow...

I wanted to avoid cupping, twisting, and bowing that tends to come along with 2x8 on up. I suppose I could have picked through the lumber but I had some plywood already so I built mine out of that. You can see it here if you are interested.

A buddy and I made a 10 gallon batch that will have fermented for 2 weeks as of tomorrow. Pulled a gravity sample after week and a half to find the gravity at 1.019. I had it stuck in my head that 1.018 was our target FG. To keep a long story short I realized that 1.018 came from BeerSmith...

A couple friends and myself get together to brew and the past 2 winters I've been worried we were going to rot out my garage from the inside with all the moisture created from brewing 2-3 batches at once. I looked around a bit but couldn't find any reasonably priced vent hoods so we decided to...

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