Recent content by ejunk

W00T yrs- Evan!

panicking. for real. samc had it about right. yrs- Evan!

25 for 10 is pretty cheap! I'd say at that price that a savings of a buck or two would be pretty significant. $2.50 equates to a 10% savings, after all. you'd save, what? $1 or so, by dropping all the hops but warrior and increasing warrior to 1 oz total, distributed through the boil as you...

three hops additions using three varieties seems excessive if you're trying to make a cheap beer. you could save several dollars by skipping on your aroma hops and increasing your bittering hops to an even one ounce; or, you could just pick one variety and go with it - cascade is a good all...

I agree with that, of course, it just doesn't work very well in your mathematical comparison. I'm building on kikshaaz's logic, here. Saving dough was definitely one of the reasons I got into homebrewing and, like you, I don't "price" my time when I figure out how much my beer costs. yrs- Evan!

what about your time, amigo? surely that's worth something. yrs- Evan!

off the thread of conversation here, but I'm looking forward to introducing malt conditioning into my brew process. thanks for the methods write-up, kaiser! yrs- Evan!

Maybe one of these would work better: http://www.greatbargain.net/order/shop1.html scroll down to the section titled "COOLER WELDLESS CONVERSION FITTING KIT." make sure you get the proper one - either "thick walled" or "standard cooler." yrs- Evan!

first off - hello! my name is evan (aka ejunk) and this is my first post on homebrewtalk.com. I live, work, play and brew in West "By God" Virginia. my buddies and I used to brew a lot of beer. we all started out extract brewing and moved into all grain. for various and sundry reasons we all...