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I'll throw in my vote for Manrock brewing company, in Grover Beach. A small place with pretty tasty beers. They don't have food, but you can grab a sandwich a couple doors down and bring it over, the owner is real cool.

Haha, yea definitely alot on that debate. My better bottle is stamped #1 PETE on the bottom. How long were you thinking of aging in plastic and what kind of beer. Maybe people with real world experience can chime in

I have read many differing opinions on aging in plastic, and seen many threads on here about it. If you do a search i'm sure you will find a lot of info about that topic so you can come to your own decision on wether or not to use plastic as a fermenting vessel or use it to age in. I personally...

thats what suspected, but since I'm a newb I wanted some clarification. Thanks With 2 more beans in the secondary, do you think it was too much??

I'm getting ready to brew this soon. Am I dumping the 2 cups of dark brown sugar and 2 split van. beans into the boiling wort? Or do I boil it on its own and dump into primary?

I have a question. The recipe calls for 2 vanilla beans. At post #23 you added another soaked bean. Did that make 2 total, or did that addition make 3? From reading through the thread i'm pretty sure it's 2, but thought i'd ask.

This kit sounded really good. But I have a concern with the yeast calling for a cider yeast. I read that the White Labs English Cider #775 (suggested with kit) is dry. Now I can only relate 'Dry' to the montrachet yeast i've used making edworts apfelwein. That came out way too dry for my taste...

This is what I did, as have many others. I have a small dorm fridge that is used with a controller. You can buy the controller from different manufacturer's or build you own. 1st one I bought was an old Johnson controller, then I built my own after reading about the 'ebay aquarium temp...

Yes, so much so that after I purchased a used fridge for my ferm chamber and didn't refill it promptly she took it over as 'her' fridge. And then she reorganized everything out to the shed. Wait a minute...

All the bottles are gone. The growler is on hold for Herotbrewer

After going through my supplies I have some bottles to let go. 33 bombers to be exact, along with a growler and another large bottle. They have been cleaned already, and are just waiting for you to come get them. (Please bring your own boxes with you to take away) I am in south san jose, near...

Here it is https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/bourbon-barrel-old-ale-182151/ If i remember some left the oak,bourbon, vanilla bean on for a month or so in secondary and some one else quite a bit longer. They both posted favorable results. I personally havent tried it yet, so i cant attest to...

I had similar questions about a brew i want to do. I found an earlier thread pretty helpful, let me see if i can find it.

A few of my friends have been waiters and waitress', so my usual tip is 20% and i usually try to leave a cash tip. I too feel its something thats earned. Sometimes the waitstaff has earned less, sometimes they have earned more. But that leads me to a question or maybe more of something that...

Welcome to HBT. I'm a real newb myself so what i have to say could be way off. I think you can, but with 4lbs of grain i would scale down my recipe. For instance i made a 1 gallon batch recently. I scaled down a popular recipe from here, from 5 to 1gal. In looking over my notes i had 2lbs of...