Recent content by daedelus902

"I will not drink this wine with you again until you are with me in paradise". See you there! For all you anti-religious home-brewers. Relax, have a home brew!!!

v2comp, If he does, he, (and they), are waaaaay off, however, we don't know the motives yet do we? As a Christian man and a homebrewer I can tell you he does not represent our ancient and historical world view. Most brewing of liquors, beer and spirits were perfected by monks and tribes in...

Scooby, you appear to have very strong sterotypical opinions about our Southern culture. Being from Michigan I can tell you that you have no claim on education, wisdom, or forward thinking, (to be sure). I've met Union Marathon workers from Detroit that barely graduated from elementary school...

Unfortunately the law has become a political maneuvering game rather than the precedent logic the public is led to believe. This sounds like a closed door case if there every was one.

I am not a consitutional attorney, (however, I am a criminal attorney), and I can tell you this arrest will likely be challenged and overthrown or simply thrown out. From a State only perspective I think I understand your position, but because State Law is not read en excludum to Federal law I...

Federal Law superceded all State Alcohol Control laws after Prohibition. The "Law" prohibiting brewing in Alabama is "illegal". Imagine that.

When local authorities make an arrest that is a bit in the grey area of the law they tend to "stretch" what is in the arrest warrant. For instance, the Sherrif isn't holding up 5 gallons of whisky. If there were five gallons of whisky you can bet your mortgage they would have it in the picture...

I have a Thomas Hardy style Barleywine racked in secondary that was pitched onto a new cake of US-05. The OG was 1.104 and the US-05 tore into it. After just 7 days at 64F it was down to 1.021. On gentle oxygenation it started back up at almost 10.7 ABV. After 2 more weeks in secondary I...

Per chance are you using a Coleman on wheels with a raised and angled drain port? If so, my old MLT, (the same), lost an extra 4+ quarts every time no matter what I did. I now use the Coleman Xtreme (no wheels) which has a slight tilt toward the drain and a sub-bottom gutter. Now I lose...

After 5 days of an all grain Raisin-Oat Toasted Pale Ale with a starting gravity of 1.041 after sparge and I'm now down to 1.014 without any visible sign of fermentation on any previous day. I also checked the seals and everything appears in tact. I'm baffled. The batch went smoothly from...

I have a genuine mystery. After 5 days of an all grain Raisin-Oat Toasted Pale Ale with a starting gravity of 1.041 after sparge. I'm now down to 1.014 without any visible sign of fermentation on any previous day. Saccarification was complete. The batch went smoothly from grind to seal and I...

Quoting Ian Smiley: "when using an all grain batch, yeast nutrients are in abundance" Of course this is in the context of only an all grain bill and fermenting a whisky mash using Turbo yeasts. Maybe it's a good thought.