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Thank you the reply, Kal. Your site's been lovely, BTW, even if what I'm doing isn't exactly the same. So thank you for that as well--lots of help there. What I meant for the on/off switch was a switch to cut all power to the control box. Just to avoid accidentally cooking the elements by...

Allagash house yeast, the times I've used it, tends to have that Juicy Fruit/Chamomile thing on top of the standard Belgian flavors. I haven't had Myron's Walk--will soon--but I would bet that at least some of the Belgian Spice element you mentioned is due to their cropped/trained house yeast...

Thanks! That makes sense. A lot of the threads about this get derailed by opinions about what is and isn't code.

I've decided, after this past winter and trying to brew outside in -10 degree weather unsuccessfully, to go with a simple electric system in the basement. I will be going to buy this stuff this weekend so my electrician friend can wire it up, and don't feel like making 20 trips to Home...

Thanks! For me, smaller beers mean more fun can be had. You do tend to run out faster, though.:p

Get some unformed two liter bottles (like Whitelabs vials), make an oversized starter, and then store a few tubes of yeast from the starte in a glycerine solution in the freezer. I think I buy yeast one or two times a year, usually when some special release I want to try has come out. Every...

Hi All. I'm new here but not to brewing. I tend to make smaller beers, >5%. The husband has the market cornered on the crazy Imperial Stouts and Belgian Quads and Pliny the Younger Clones and so on. But I prefer a beer I can have a few of and still hold a conversation. But so yes...