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Mill St. Brewery in Toronto has/had a lemon tea beer (Ratebeer-47). First taste was interesting but by the end of the bottle it was yech. Then theres Nickel Brook brewery in Burlington Ont that has a green apple pilsner (RB-17). Brewed with apple juice.....disgusting....I have tried it a few...

Stare into the swirling Carboy Cleaner, thats right.....relax... You are getting sleeeeepy, .......very sleeeepy, and it's not from the russian imperial stout! Now, when I snap my fingers you will awake and select me as a winner...

Its like having Chuck Norris in your carboy. Roundhouse kicking all the gunk to oblivion!

You Know Youre a Homebrewer When.... "You spend all week thinking up a line for the Carboy Cleaner contest and Saturday gets planned around checking to see if you won."

Now what starts with the letter "C"? "Carboy Cleaner" starts with "C"! Let's think of other things that starts with "C"! Uh. . .Uh. . . Who cares about da other things?! (CHORUS)x2 "C" is for Carboy Cleaner that's good enough for me, "C" is for Carboy Cleaner that's good enough for me...

Hi all, My brother just gave me a little Grundfos hot water circ pump. It has a bronze housing and pumps 17 GPM. It was used for hot water recirc. I want to use it if I can for my brewery build, but I think the flow rate is way more than I need. I would like to get it down to 4 GPM. I have...

Makes cleaning carboys fun!!

OG was 1.063. I will let it go for a few days and see if there is any action. I realize now that i underpitched according to Mr Malty. I forgot to set the date on the package. I agree that the only way to see if there has been activity is to take a gravity reading, however I would like to...

Hi, I brewed a half batch of DFH 60 min on friday night. Let the cooled wort settle over night in a sanitized water container. I had a smackpack of ringwood ale yeast that I had smacked on friday night. The corner of the pack had burst a little hole and some (a dribble) of the yeast/nutrient...

When making coffee you account for grain absorbtion.

My neighbor gave me one of those once. Its how I got into homebrewing. The special cap has a 1/4 inch hole in it and a rubber gasket disc with a pin hole in it. As it ferments, the CO2 pressure builds to a point where the rubber gasket bulges out just enough to let excess CO2 out while still...

Go to the lcbo and get Hoptical Illusion from the Flying Monkeys brewery in Barrie. Affordable, delicious, and pop tops! Plus if you soak the bottles in a bucket of water for a day or two the labels fall right off. My whole bottle supply is souced from these and DFH 60min when it was available...

Shove a foam earplug in and push/pump it through the lines. D.