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Seller metapark is refunding me my money instead of making me ship it back. Good for metapark. I have about 20 6ft AC Power Cords I'm happy to give away if anyone would like one for the cost of shipping. Email me (charles at meandyouis.us) or txt me two oh eight 779-0328.

I can confirm ebay seller Metapark sells only 220v controllers. :(

Does anyone have success purchasing from the ebay seller Metapark? They seem to have the lowest priced items. Here is metapark's store. I think I am going to buy from them (they are about $9 less than quality link and globalconn's stores. The image is what we want- the 4 buttons on the front.

Los Angeles/ Orange County brewers, Can you help me out? I think I've got an excellent brew right now. Would you help me force-carbonate my brew for a party this Saturday? I don't have a keg or a CO2 supply, but I'd happily pay you a small amount and hand you a six-pack of American Brown...

Hi all. My girlfriend just accepted a great position at Boise State University and I'll be moving to Boise, ID also. So far I've found a local brewshop, great church (Vineyard Boise) and other local homebrewers.. and I may possibly have found a great place to stay. If anyone knows of any...

Hi newbrewr. I didn't think the jump to all-grain produced an AMAZINGLY better beer. If you search around some will tell you all-grain is the way to go. My free (and worth about the same?) advice: Go to all-grain if: *You don't mind stretching your brew day to 6 hours (to start. Maybe 4.5 hours...

Most dorm fridges have an intrusion into the fridge space to make room for the compressor in the back. This hampers your ability to put bigger buckets/ carboys.. as you have to put the bucket or carboy on TOP of that intrusion (usually about 8" from bottom). I have a small dorm fridge and it...

Thanks for the comments. I guess all the books I read spoke of many brewers using fly sparging as their method to sparge, so I assumed many of the homebrew recipes designed their recipe with that in mind. Good points about how efficiency is more important than the sparging method.. which is a...

Thanks all for your help! I dehydrated some yeast yesterday and pitched it but I'm seeing no change from then till now. I'll wait another week to see if the yeast takes hold. Sparge Temp: I'm pretty sure my sparge temps were pretty right on- hotter deg water may have hit my grains, but the...

McKbrew and Death- I believe the OG was .050? (Recipe noted it should be .060) Ah! Forgot an important detail that may account for the bitterness and low OG: Since this was my second all-grain, I didn't put in half of the 2-row until midway through the mash! Of course- so that means less 2-Row...

I know the mantra: touch mess with it, RDWHAHB, etc. But since this a stout, I'm thinking I didn't pitch up enough yeast to start with- this could be the reason fermentation looks like it has slowed with still sugars available for fermentation. What would ever be a problem with pitching...

TastyBrew's Sparge Calculator notes the amount of grain bill scaling that needs to happen depending on (seemingly) how inefficient my system is (it takes into account the wort lost in dead space, etc.) So my questions is, every batch sparger MUST scale up their grain bill when using an...

Thanks for your comments. Also, I found out Beer Alchemy will suggest recipies- it actually has a "suggest a beet" option: http://www.kentplacesoftware.com/products/BeerAlchemy.html (As I'm on a mac)

I am starting out in all grain, but I was interested if there was any site I could go to and plug in what grains I've got.. and then see what recipes I could make. I know the more professional brewing software allows for inventory management, and one of them allows you to check if a certain...

brrman, How much water did you begin heating at the start? How did you heat your strike water? It took me forever to heat the stuff up- and I'm using a new gas range w/ "high-speed" large burners. I had about 4 gallons in my large 20 gallon aluminum pot and it struggled to make it past 150 deg...