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Put 100 unlit coals in your fire basket. light 8-10 coals and put spread out over the top. Open your exhaust all the way and controll your heat with the intake. This works for me on my UDS and my weber kettle and with 100 coals going I can get about 12 hrs or longer at 225. wait to put the meat...

Sorry I meant they don't need to go in the carboy.

flame out hops don't need to go in the kettle. Put the flame outs in a separate bag, pull the other bag out at the end of the boil and throw the flame out bag in. then when you're done whirl pooling or cooling pull that bag out also and transfer your wort as normal.

I just finished a chocolate milk stout. I put in 8 oz of Hershey's unsweetened cocoa powder and 1 lb lactose at 5 mins. Slight chocolate flavor but really brought out the roastiness of the grains. The lactose didn't add much sweetness, it did add a nice silkiness and also made the cocoa much...

any of those saws will cut the aluminum but i'd go with the saws-all, the jig saw would also work pretty good but the blade gets gummed up with the aluminum so use a rougher blade than a metal one and plan on going through a couple of them. the circular saw would give you the straightest cut and...

If you don't want to waste the sample you could sanitize another small bottle or something and pour it in there, then you could use the same sample to take your next readings. I've never done it so it may not work but it may be worth a try.

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I'd be interested in meeting up with some local brewers also, I'm in west valley and i brew all grain more often then not although i'm definately not a pro.

I'd say try vinegar, i use it to get hard water deposits off stuff pretty often.

another thing to try would be only boiling 1 or 2 pounds of the extract for the full boil time and adding the rest with like 5 minutes or so left in the boil. adjust your hops for a lower gravity because your utilization will be better at a lower gravity.