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I don't use Playon (yet), but my assumption is it's available on Roku as Playon is offering their 'lifetime' service package bundled with a Roku HD- https://www.playon.tv/buy/formEnterPaymentInfo.php?id=175 Edit: and the Roku LT- https://www.playon.tv/buy/formEnterPaymentInfo.php?id=155

I'm right there with you, I'm tired of $100+ TV bills and the games cable plays with their fee's. I don't think any 'cable-free' setup would be complete without pulling in your local OTA channels. This is the best site I've found for help getting free OTA HD and standard broadcasts onto your...

Holy crap! How does that even happen nowdays, I though those trucks were like rolling beer fortresses.

Throwing out knock-offs won't be enough to co-opt the craft brew market IMO. In pre-craft beer days, maybe, but not now. They're dealing with a more educated market for one, and two, craft breweries aren't competing with them (big brewers). If one thinks about the sheer number of styles...

This article highlights the possibility of a retail squeeze play by the majors...... http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/11/coming-threat-your-craft-brew

Not looking for an excuse to get sloppy cleaning my secondary or bottles. But once gravity deltas reach a certain point, wouldn't the risk of infection go down dramatically?

A slightly fortified all extract ale. I'm aiming simple for my first corny experience.

Alcohol laws and Ebay rules aside, I am confounded by breweries putting 'pressure' to limit these sales. I'm not saying these sales should continue if there are issues with legality, just that it's not the brewers fight. Instead IMO they should be saying thank you for the free marketing and...

I'm right there with you Keith. After a 20 year hiatus I'm all in- today I put my second batch in three weeks into the fermenter and brought home a 5gal corny kit from the local brew shop. Making beer is a blast and oh so rewarding. Enjoy that stout!

I prefer siphoning to a separate bottling bucket, but it's not necessary. Coopers makes an excellent single container kit that you ferment and bottle from. At priming, potential trub disturbing issues are avoided by adding hard candy like 'drops' to each bottle.