Recent content by harpdog

I have a round 10 gallon mash tun, and bought a cheap 5 gallon water jug/cooler for the sparge water. While my mash is going on, I heat sparge water in my boil kettle. When that is up to the temp I want (usually over the mash out temp) I then pour it into the second (5 gallon) water cooler to...

There's a club called Brixies Brewers that meets at Brixies in Brookfield.

Hi all. I started brewing with a Mr. Beer kit last Christmas. I recently bottled my first 5 gallon batch. Having lots of fun and I appreciate helpful information. I ran across this forum while looking for a friendly home brewing forum. This isn't it. Too much sniping in the posts. Hope you all...

Be sure you... don't use the capper on your PET bottles. And have fun.

I got the same kit and recipe - bottled it on Monday and it smelled FANTASTIC. A taste test was very encouraging. I used the yeast that came with the kit, and I rehydrated it according to the instructions on the packet, though you can also pitch it dry. I saw a video on line where a guy...

My experiment with regular shipping labels turned out not so good. They don't soak off too easily, and have to be scraped. I think I'll just put half address labels on the caps, just print up a sheet and cut in half with a paper cutter. When I want to dress up the bottles and take them out...

Make some labels in your "Paint" Program I'll try to show a couple samples. Size: 392 x 425 pixels: 267 X 410 pixels: Save as bitmap images - they stay nicer that way. I used print from Microsoft Word (Insert Word Art) on the above, then copied and pasted, To make labels: Open Microsoft...