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Yeah this looks nice. I'm in.

I am excited to see how this turns out. I've also been preoccupied this summer and gotten almost no brewing done. This makes me want to brew a Kentucky Common. I'll see if I can manage to do so this weekend. Probably not, but that's my goal!

It won't hurt anything and can help your yeast beasts. I've done a couple 10-11% brews and only ever shook my bucket before pitching for oxygenation and never had any problems with fermentation or off flavors.

Just use a measuring cup to measure out a half gallon or a gallon. Then measure from the bottom of the pot to the waterline and use that height as your measurement. Just measure out the rest of the marks.

You need to watch it during the morning and daytime especially on the weekends. That's when all the different "chef makes some food" shows are on. The weekend also has "The Kitchen" which is kind of like "The View" except for cooking and 40/60 male.female cast split.

For cooling. If you're going to use an immersion chiller and want to do a hopstand or even just know when you're fully chilled that thermometer is useful on a boil kettle.

I'm in.

In like Flynn!

OK that makes much more sense. I'm not sure I'll get to try this soon but it's definitely something I want to try. What I really want to do is try and clone Kosmic Mother Funk and use that to blend per the actual Utopias. The problem there is finding some KMF to taste and then making the clone...

This is an awesome thread and something I'd like to try at some point. I had a question about your process though. Did you mix a gallon of the mild starter beer with this? It sounded like that was part of your process. Or maybe a more direct question is, could you give a rundown of your process...

You generally don't want to boil the hops more than the recipe states. The longer you boil the hops, in general, the more bitterness you get and the less flavor/aroma you get. Volatile oils responsible for the flavors and aromas vaporize during the boil and you get higher alpha acid...

Huh to be fair I have not searched for it I used a beer locator. I'm lazy :p Now I have to go see if any bottles went unnoticed somewhere. Me being lazy makes more sense than it not being distributed here.

Blame the bank for that, they like to pick the cheapest card available which like any computer is slower ;) Yup, the real speed comes with the contactless cards where you just tap on the terminal and the transaction goes through. Couple seconds tops. Of course this means both the cards and...

I actually had a guy send me a bottle of the 2014 regular and barleywine with a couple local beers tagging along. I was only really looking for the BCBS regular (won't ignore a barleywine though!) and it was the only bottle in the package that broke :p

Definitely not the ABV. I can get Avery's Tweak which is 17%. It could be sales I suppose, there's a lot of competition in the beer market here especially with Surly, Fulton's and other great local breweries. Doesn't mean I have to like it :mad: